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Black People and Columbus Day - Gotta Be Mixed Feelings, Right? (1 Viewer)
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Homer J Simpson
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There should really be no mixed feelings at all. Guy was worse than Hitler.
dschuler
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Kafka
Footballguy
You really thought that one through.
cstu
Footballguy
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
His murder numbers don't stack up to Hitler's, but adjusting for the era he was pretty close.
Kafka
Footballguy
Cold and calculated, that Christopher Columbus...good point, guy. Mea Culpa.
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Long Ball Larry
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Back up. You're talking out of your ###. Columbus and Hitler? You're trivializing the holocaust. Frankly, Reuben, if you got that kind of covert anti-Semitism, I'd like you to leave my house.
Homer J Simpson
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Spartans Rule
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timschochet
Footballguy
Terrible taste but this struck me as very funny.
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
Slavery was another 300 years away. Columbus goes more hand-in-hand with Native Americans.
timschochet
Footballguy
You're speaking of AFRICAN slavery. Columbus made slaves out of the natives of the West Indies.
timschochet
Footballguy
So if Columbus was first and he arrived here BEFORE Amerigo Vespucci, why aren't we the United States of Christopher?
NCCommish
Footballguy
It was a mistake. Vespucci went to the New World in 1499 and 1502. He wrote two books. The first person to publish a map of the New World, a German cartographer, knew about Vespucci but not Columbus. And so he named it after him.
PlasmaDogPlasma
Footballguy
I don't know about that. I was mostly referring to the acts committed by Columbus and his men according to their own accounts in letters.i blame Columbus for Vietnam and Iraq!
Insein
Footballguy
And I was referring to the claim that Columbus lead blacks to slavery. Slavery was a worldwide institution which was going to happen in America no matter what Columbus did or didn't do. Columbus did what was done back in the day. The acts of Columbus were mostly on the shoulders of the country of Spain who commissioned him and profited off his acts. He did some nasty things and does not deserve a holiday, but he was not Hitler either.I don't know about that. I was mostly referring to the acts committed by Columbus and his men according to their own accounts in letters.i blame Columbus for Vietnam and Iraq!
Officer Pete Malloy
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Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Where did you get your History degree? Kinkos?And I was referring to the claim that Columbus lead blacks to slavery. Slavery was a worldwide institution which was going to happen in America no matter what Columbus did or didn't do. Columbus did what was done back in the day. The acts of Columbus were mostly on the shoulders of the country of Spain who commissioned him and profited off his acts. He did some nasty things and does not deserve a holiday, but he was not Hitler either.I don't know about that. I was mostly referring to the acts committed by Columbus and his men according to their own accounts in letters.i blame Columbus for Vietnam and Iraq!
DaVinci
FairTaxguy
Slavery existed in the Americas long before Columbus.Where did you get your History degree? Kinkos?And I was referring to the claim that Columbus lead blacks to slavery. Slavery was a worldwide institution which was going to happen in America no matter what Columbus did or didn't do. Columbus did what was done back in the day. The acts of Columbus were mostly on the shoulders of the country of Spain who commissioned him and profited off his acts. He did some nasty things and does not deserve a holiday, but he was not Hitler either.I don't know about that. I was mostly referring to the acts committed by Columbus and his men according to their own accounts in letters.i blame Columbus for Vietnam and Iraq!
Definitely did not learn it from the Blame-America first wing nuts in this forum. Here is a place to start your journey to at least having some knowledge on the subject. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slaveryWhere did you get your History degree? Kinkos?And I was referring to the claim that Columbus lead blacks to slavery. Slavery was a worldwide institution which was going to happen in America no matter what Columbus did or didn't do. Columbus did what was done back in the day. The acts of Columbus were mostly on the shoulders of the country of Spain who commissioned him and profited off his acts. He did some nasty things and does not deserve a holiday, but he was not Hitler either.I don't know about that. I was mostly referring to the acts committed by Columbus and his men according to their own accounts in letters.i blame Columbus for Vietnam and Iraq!
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To be fair, slavery, as an institution, predated Columbus by several thousand years.
Brunell4MVP
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Wait, I thought blacks were the only race/ethnicity enslaved in the last 5000 years? Did I miss something?
To answer your question, the brothers will do anything for a day off work.
To answer your question, the brothers will do anything for a day off work.
the moops
Footballguy
SacramentoBob
Footballguy
Well if you add up all the days off from Columbus day, we'll break even about 90,000 years from now.
PIK95
Footballguy
This
Koya
Footballguy
Because those who work in govt or education have the day off but those in private industry have to work?
You know, like the rest of us.
Koya
Footballguy
I was thinking more Wahoo Sam. One of the eras strongmen, but one season / achievement that shines above the others (murdering like 16 hr balls in 1902 or something)
Cjw_55106
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I use to work for a bank that opened a branch on a reservation. We stopped getting the day off when we opened that branch.
Hov34
Eephus's Great Great Great Love Child
Koya
Footballguy
To be honest, without said slave trade, these defendants wouldn't have the day off either. I mean, unless they celebrate C Day in Western Africa.
Just another silver lining for Ann Coulter to ##### about.
Hov34
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Cjw_55106
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Parrothead
Footballguy
I miss having Columbus Day off.. great time of year 
CBusAlex
Footballguy
Was talking about the history of slavery, not Columbus. Still don't get the connection between blacks and Columbus made in the OP. Most of his crimes were against the indigenous people of the Bahamas. Seems like some are of the belief America was the center of all slavery and all slaves were black and somehow Columbus is to blame.
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