Why do we call it Columbus Day? He didn't discover North America, there were people here before that, Native Americans. Columbus can't take credit for finding it if he never found it in the first place, the human forms that first lived here found it, lived here, grew up here. I'm going to the capital of my state (hopefully) to protest Columbus Day.
We can't say that Columbus was the first here, if he obviously wasn't. Neanderthals were the first to be credited to find the 'Old World', yet there were more primitive humans here before that, and this is how I wonder how people can believe in creationism, it's a thousand time destroyed belief.
Native Americans were not even the first here, it was the primitive humans, but we can credit the Incas and such.
Honestly, Columbus day is just a regular old day. Columbus was ruthless and evil, that's like having Hitler Day. Whoever made this holiday needs to go shove their head up an ostrich asss.
Columbus saw the native Americans pillage each other and practice rituals such as giving up blood and human sacrifice. Cannibalism was also evident. To be frank there were some things that Columbus did that were good. You can't say the man was a terrorist to the new world unless you are in favor of cannibalism and human sacrifice. There was also a dark side, he enslaved people and sold them to Europe to appease greedy Kings and queens; in a word he exploited a people who had inadequate technology to defend themselves for his own selfish gains. But that's Machiavellian philosophy for you as it relates to clearing out a weaker civilization so that a stronger and more sophisticated one such as ours could take its place.
