Columbus Day is one of the worst celebrations in which one can participate. Christopher Columbus is falsely revered for discovering America. You cannot discover a place in which people already live. Columbus died thinking he had gone to India on his journeys to America. He never believed he discovered anything. After seeing the peacefulness and inferior weapons the indigenous people had Columbus wrote his manifesto as to how he could enslave them.
The Indians had a culture of trading with strangers they met. When gold was given to Columbus as a gift he assumed gold was everywhere. He started enslaving the indigenous people. Columbus would hang them in the entrances of caves to encourage them to dig for his gold. He cut the hands off those that didn’t give him the quota of gold he required. In addition, to making slaves of people that owned almost no weapons because they were so peaceful, he rounded up healthy natives and shipped them back to Spain to be sold on the slave market.
Tribes like the Arawak was first tribe Columbus encountered. They began with a population of 250,000 to less than 500 before they eventually became extinct. Columbus and his men raped, mutilated, and murdered, the Arawak and others Tribes down to nothing. There are stories where Columbus would cut the legs off the children, kill their parents and come back finish off the children.
How exactly are we supposed to celebrate the beginning of the holocaust of 500 nations of indigenous tribes?