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……

Columbus Day Poem

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.