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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Reconsider Columbus Day


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A student sent this link because it relates to A Mercy.

You can also watch the video here.

While I don't believe we need an official holiday to celebrate the person who represents an escalation in slave trade and the genocide of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus himself was really not a bad guy. Columbus wasn't trying to colonize or enslave anyone; rather, he wanted to prove the earth was round. People thought he was crazy and his own crew often threatened to throw him overboard.

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