In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.He sailed by night; he sailed by day;
He used the stars to find his way.A compass also helped him know
How to find the way to go……
If you are old AF, you learned that poem (or some variation) in elementary school to celebrate Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World. If you attended a government school post-1993, you celebrated Indigenous People’s Day because Ol’ Chris was a “murderous, enslaving, sexual-abusing, treacherous colonizer” of the poor, put-upon Taino people. Thank all y’all who hate White European types. Even though Chris was debatably White.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has…
If Christopher Columbus hadn’t decided to sail the ocean blue, we wouldn’t be here. That’s just a simple undeniable fact.
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