printIndigenous Indians protesting Columbus Day are not nearly as ridiculous as native Americans teaching and imbibing a great deal of tripe about Christopher Columbus. And no one puts it quite like David Yeagley, the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle:
“…it is the greatness of Columbus that liberals cannot abide. Being the pathological protesters they are, no great achiever is allowed recognition. (Liberals laud only empty words of people like Barry Soetoro.) And that which the world has previously considered great and honorable must now be denigrated, demeaned, and condemned. Indeed, damned as evil and wrong.
That’s what Jeffrey Kolowith is teaching his kindergarten students in Tampa, Florida. They mustn’t like Columbus. He was bad. ‘He was very, very mean, very bossy,’ says Kolowith, poisoning the little children’s minds with disdain, aversion, and hatred for the very elements of character required to achieve anything grand. Self-discipline, group management, unrelenting dedication, these are not to be found in the weak and ‘loving’ liberal. The only thing they’re devoted to is undoing what achievers achieve.
An AP story, “A darker side of Columbus” emerges in US classrooms, indicates Kolowith is determined that children despise those who have accomplished the most significant feats in history.
Author of the article, Christine Amario, has assembled a sordid array of typical, boring anti-American brainwashers. The only one distinguished among them is in fact Mr. Kolowith—and only because he’s taken the anti-Western cause to the youngest children in the American public school system: the five-year olds.
The irony of an author with an Italian name, trying to discredit the greatest Italian since the time of Jesus! Self-purgation, is it? ‘Abbe pietá di me!’ (Have mercy on me!) This is the liberal’s idea of nobility: self-loathing.”
Read “Yes, Columbus Discovered America.” (As well as the the interview Dr. Yeagley conducted with me.)
If they feel so bad about what Columbus did, why don’t they move back to Europe? Or even better: now that Africa is the cradle of civilization, why don’t they come here and appease their guilt once and for all?
Don’t you know that all non-European people lived life expectancies well over 100 with super-high standards of living and NO VIOLENCE in their society until the evil parasitic racists (e.g. white people) came away and wrecked Utopia?
The big joke in the narrative is that gunpowder, the evil weapon of the white man, was not invented by whites!
By the way, since Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian, we should rename the Continent – perhaps Obamia or Obamaland comes to mind.
Good article. Apparently the school teacher forgot to teach the children the fact that the “Native Americans” gave the sailors syphilis disease to take back to Europe, with I have no idea the death and sickness that caused. (I know other theories abound- but almost immediately after his return to Europe this mysterious disease ravages the “Old World” provides sufficient circumstantial evidence for me) http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/syphilis. However regarding indoctrinating (teaching) children this is common practice by the left everywhere. During the Bush 1/Clinton election campaign I watched a political education spot on the Nickelodeon Channel. When the announcer told the kids that their parents could vote for Bill Clinton, cartoon characters danced and stars went off, or your parents can vote for George Bush, cartoon figures went into spitting and throwing up antics. Character assassination is the Left’s stock in trade.
I thought this commentary was good. See what you think. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112679
Columbus was no sweetheart. Neither was any other public figure in Europe of that era. This does not detract from his great deeds of exploration. We’re lucky we didn’t have to depend on Alan Alda or Phil Donahue.
I don’t always understand the libertarian/classic liberal mindset. Why is it good to inquire and make judgments about the “Real Lincoln” but not the “Real Columbus”? Just asking.
I certainly agree with J E and James Huggins that Columbus, like Lincoln, was a mixed legacy – or “no sweetheart”. I have no particular fondness for Inquisition Spain and the Conquistadors.
HOWEVER, the Western “exploiters” or “colonizers” of the New World and Africa and Asia also took a lot of people out of their Stone Age or Medieval brutal existence, albeit at an often terrible price. The descendants of the slaves or mineworkers or concubines … live better because of these (greedy) colonial exploiters.
Why is it good to inquire and make judgments about the “Real Lincoln” but not the “Real Columbus”?
Columbus sailed around half the world- bumped into an island and went home; told the world what he discovered, faded into obscurity. Judging his personality is immaterial and disparaging his leadership qualities in order to repulse children in a classroom is an insult to the whole concept of education. Lincoln, however, was a president, who like those before and after him advanced governmental policy and programs that affect the lives of the citizens of the country both in his present and future directly. People like Lincoln, Stalin, Washington, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Caesars, need to be studied and evaluated in order to see what they did right or wrong and why (if possible) so that historical knowledge can direct our own future accordingly. For example, failure to read Murray Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression” which outlines economic mistakes in the Roosevelt administration has caused our present government to repeat the same mistakes FDR made.