Columbus Day...

[Jase]

happy belated native pillaging day to all!

 

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Davidson Deac II]

It is true that very few educated Europeans thought the earth was flatt.  However, there was signficant debate as to the actual shape of the earth (was it round like a sphere, or round like disc).  Columbus and Magellan's voyages did prove that the earth was sphere shaped. 

[Guest]

Jase=buzzkill. 

[Darth Biscuit]

I had never paid any attention to Columbus Day my entire life until we started working with an organization that had offices in VA that actually took the day off for it...

 

We still don't.

[PanthersBigD]

I like how at the end of that thing, he professes his admiration for Bartoleme de las Casas, the rich man turned priest who fought to end the use of indigenous slaves...by championing their replacement by African slaves! LOL!

 

 

And Christopher Columbus can eat a dick.

[jasonluckydog]

CC keep on rocking the free world

[CarolinaNCSU]

Columbus does get more credit than he deserves....but that can be said for pretty much all of Europe/the Western World. 

[Guest]

true, but we don't celebrate a Cortez Day. 

[Kurb]

Add a link please.

[Jase]

ugh, fine

 

copyright infringement schmopyright infringement

[R0CKnR0LLA]

do we get one of these for thanksgiving too?

[PhillyB]

ugh can we stop denigrating classic american heroes in the name of political correctness?

[Floppin]

I like how at the end of that thing, he professes his admiration for Bartoleme de las Casas, the rich man turned priest who fought to end the use of indigenous slaves...by championing their replacement by African slaves! LOL!

 

 

And Christopher Columbus can eat a dick.

 

From the link...a little commentary that he posted after the images.

 

 

A very important note about Bartolomé de las Casas and the African slave trade

This issue keeps coming up and, despite my footnotes, I keep seeing commentary about it so I'm going to address it here. 

Initially, Bartolomé de las Casas advocated the use of African slaves instead of native labor. In the first few years after he renounced his land and title, his initial cause was to end the suffering of the natives, rather than seeking an end to the institution of slavery itself, and so this became his deplorable rationale for the endorsement of African slavery. Bartolomé de las Casas eventually retracted those views, however, and came to see all forms of slavery as being equally wrong. In The History of the Indies published in 1527, he wrote the following:

I soon repented and judged myself guilty of ignorance. I came to realize that black slavery was as unjust as Indian slavery...

and I was not sure that my ignorance and good faith would secure me in the eyes of God.

 

I know that the discovery of the New World means a lot of different things to a lot of different cultures. I like the sound of Bartolomé Day. If you don't like that, call it Indigenous People's Day. Or perhaps Chris-Columbus-was-a-turd Day. I'd even settle for just calling it MONDAY. 

 

[PanthaSan]

As an Indigenous person, I hate CC and Thanksgiving and small pox blankets and Manifest Destiny and Pilgrims and resevations and Land Grabbers and soggy fry bread and pollution, etc.

 

 

But now, I do loves me some Jase......