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re: Christopher Columbus statue beheaded by vandals in Boston
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:34 pm to ZappBrannigan
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:34 pm to ZappBrannigan
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. I thought the Spanish enslaved the natives while the French and British and Dutch did the importing from Africa.
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The Asiento, the official contract for trading in slaves in the vast Spanish territories was a major engine of the Atlantic slave trade. When Spain first enslaved Native Americans on Hispaniola, and then replaced them with captive Africans, it established unfree labor as the basis for colonial mass-production. Subsequently, in the mid-nineteenth century when most countries in the Americas reformed to disallow chattel slavery, Cuba and Puerto Rico – the last two remaining Spanish American colonies – maintained slavery the longest.
Between disease and genetics, Native Americans didn’t hold up well to agricultural slave labor.
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:36 pm to High C
So, are the vandals going to jail for vandalizing? They should.
This post was edited on 6/11/20 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:40 pm to Alt26
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When you're self identity is wrapped in always having a "noble crusade to fight" then you can't just stop once you achieve a "goal". You have to find another wrong to right. Otherwise you lose your identity.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:42 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
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He discovered America is what he did! He was a great Italian explorer! And in this house Christopher Columbus is a hero! End of story!
He didn't discover America. I don't know why our schools keep pushing this lie. The lands were already occupied when he arrived.
Shut up moron. It’s from The Sopranos.
This post was edited on 6/11/20 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:44 pm to Hammond Tiger Fan
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He didn't discover America. I don't know why our schools keep pushing this lie. The lands were already occupied when he arrived.
Bet you wouldn’t tell that to Tony’s face.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:47 pm to High C
I thought it started a century later but it seems started in 1511. But still the Spanish farmed the actual collecting and selling of slaves to the Italians and eventually the British and Dutch. They just pocketed the change on selling the rights to the trade.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:50 pm to ZappBrannigan
Columbus day sucks anyway and he really fricked us over witht the disease stuff cause early american civilizations are really really interesting and we don't know enough about them.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:53 pm to Hogwarts
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He was an Italian sent by Spain. What am I missing here?
He was human garbage.
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Columbus kidnapped a Carib woman and gave her to a crew member to rape
Columbus kidnapped and enslaved more than a thousand people on Hispaniola
Columbus forced Indians to collect gold for him or else die
Settlers under Columbus sold 9- and 10-year-old girls into sexual slavery
Posted on 6/11/20 at 3:56 pm to High C
I don't give a shite who the statue is for, since when do we not care about ppl destroying property? What would have to happen and how bad does it have to get before we allow law enforcement to start enforcing the law?
It's genius politics. Get people arguing about race 24/7 and they'll overlook that fact that people are literally claiming 6 blocks of a US city as their own sovereign territory (lol) and destroying both public and private property in almost every major city in America. It's progress tho, you just don't understand!
It's genius politics. Get people arguing about race 24/7 and they'll overlook that fact that people are literally claiming 6 blocks of a US city as their own sovereign territory (lol) and destroying both public and private property in almost every major city in America. It's progress tho, you just don't understand!
This post was edited on 6/11/20 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:30 pm to BluegrassBelle
quote:This is such liberal nonsense. Who is claiming he was the very first person to set foot in America
Bigger question probably is why we're still talking about and honoring a guy who wasn't even close to the first to "discover" America at this point.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:55 pm to AbitaFan08
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our Republican Governor is far more competent than your Democrat one.
I’ve taken shits that would govern our state better than JBE.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:59 pm to High C
The nerve of that guy, bringing the Gospel of Jesus to a bunch of peaceful rapacious cannibals.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:11 pm to Hogwarts
His real name was Cristoforo Colombo
It didn’t sound English enough so they changed it before his “1492 voyage”, and we’ve written it like that into our history books ever since.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:22 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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His real name was Cristoforo Colombo
"Columbus" is the Latin version of his surname. It was customary among European elites of his time to know and use a Latin version of their names, e.g. in published writings or in a foreign country.
In Latin America and Spain they call the man Cristobal Colon. In Italy they presumably call him what you posted. There's certainly nothing nefarious about any of that.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:32 pm to BluegrassBelle
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So who's contributed more to the game of football, the first guy to throw a forward pass or Tom Brady?
Well Columbus did bring about thirty different diseases with him that helped wipe out several Native Americans. So there's that.
Well, any Old World explorer would have done that. Not like Columbus loaded up a small pox bomb and dropped it.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:35 pm to Hogwarts
Italians are racist antifa terrorists.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 6:46 pm to High C
This is appropriate. It’s not like he actually discovered shite. The land was already inhabited by natives.
Posted on 6/11/20 at 7:05 pm to High C
As someone who doesn't give two shits about Columbus one way or another, this makes me lol.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:32 pm to tgr4ever
quote:So until the Europeans know about it ....?
Why do you think he was considered the first person to discover America? Because the Euopeans... didnt know about America.. until he discovered it.
The funny thing about the myth of the Columbus "discovery" is Mexico had a relatively advanced civilization with more people than Spain. The America's had more people than Western Europe.
Posted on 6/13/20 at 7:39 pm to John88
quote:Fox will probably run this tonight.
Italians are racist antifa terrorists.
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