Christopher Columbus A man not to be celebrated
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If I were president, I would change an event in which I feel very passionately about: The celebration of Christopher Columbus Day. With me I would bring the true history of Columbus. In America we play up how wonderful Columbus was, we have the youth in our society put on reenactments and teach them all about the glorious voyage and discovery of Christopher Columbus. Little did our naive minds know we were being lied to from the start! Left out of the teachings was the genocide that did exist as Columbus began him journey of greed and murder. The Island of present day Haiti in a prime example. There Columbus destroyed an entire civilization of an "inferior" people. Murder, cannibalism and destruction were not uncommon as the green-eyed Columbus and his crew surveyed the island. Enslavement of the people began, many dieing from cruelties of the Spaniards or the diseases they carried. In a mere thirty eight year period from 1496 to 1534 Columbus and his men wiped out the population of eight million Hispaniola's living in their island paradise...