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quote:Originally posted by SuGamer

Good list, but I disagree on one issue. While we are here today because of Columbus, it doesn't change the fact of who he was. He personally over saw the murder of the men and boys, and the rape of the women and girls of the natives on the island of Hispaniola, which you now know as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Explorer, yes, adventurer, yes, father of the new world and what it has become, yes, man with a good heart, no. Native Americans hate Columbus. Are they Liberials? NO! They are realistic. The man was ultimately reponsible for them having their land stolen from them along with most of their culture and pride and many ancestors. So just because Columbus built the foundations of what became a great country today, doesn't mean he was an angel.

Jesus Christ, the point was to lighten this up!