Columbus was too sympathetic to natives

I’m gonna go back to read it all but I did read the passage on Columbus. Interesting but there’s no telling what the Spanish call too sympathetic to the natives. Everything’s relative.

This has to do with why Amerigo Vespucci gets 2 freaking continents named after him and not Columbus. But Vespucci does not get to be home of the Gamecocks or the Blue Jackets named after him does he?


Columbus was disgraced by the Spanish court for, amongst other things, his sympathetic treatment of the natives of the New World, and Vespucci, who succeeded where Columbus had failed by finding the mainland, was glorified as the "discoverer" of the Americas. It was only long after his death that Columbus was finally acknowledged as the first European to cross the Atlantic. Of course, the Irish Saint Breandán had already sailed to North America in the 6th Century, and the Vikings are believed to have settled in Canada, which they called Vinland, a few centuries later, so the Italians were certainly not the first Europeans to achieve this feat.

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Kafta

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Wow.

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Don't Go Near the Indians

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What a plot twist.

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there’s no telling what the Spanish call too sympathetic to the natives.

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Seeing as how they were the most brutal of the colonial powers, there's no real limit to their depravity.

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Columbus was too sympathetic to natives

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There was actually a 4th boat named "frick'EM" that unfortunately sank about 100 miles from shore.

That video really makes me yearn for the simpler times when country songs were about not fricking your sister down by the river.

Geez.
Err’body knows Columbus was not the first discoverer of America. But he was the last.

Amerigo was just a good mapmaker who got away with stolen valor in naming the new world after himself.

If the North American natives had been smart enough to build boats that could get across the ocean first they would have done unto others what they had done unto them.

White people now are merely wringing their hands for being more advanced 500 years ago.