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Originally Posted by
RocketDawg
Columbus didn't have GPS.
How about explaining the current disdain for Christopher Columbus?
Idk maybe it was spearheading the transatlantic slave trade, introducing smallpox and a wave of other illnesses to natives, or just the genocidal impunity that he treated natives with.
Flip it around, what can you honestly say he's worth celebrating for? He wasn't even the first white person to "discover" the America's. He's just the guy who slapped his name on claiming it.
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