Monday, October 10, 2005&#@!ing Columbus...
Thank you, Mr. Columbus, for finding something that already existed and was already inhabited.
And thank you for causing my bank to be closed which means I am cash less (since my new ATM card hasn't arrived yet) until tomorrow morning at 9:00.
You know, when I was in school, I really didn't mind Columbus Day. It was a free day off! But now it just pisses me off. Why is it a holiday to begin with? Columbus wasn't the great man that he's rumored to be. Reports are abound that he was nothing more than a slave trader that got lost. (He was looking for India, not North America.) (A second link) He landed in the Bahamas and began to exterminate and enslave the Arawak Indians.
Let's be honest here. If Columbus hadn't landed in North America, someone else would have. In fact, many already had. It's reported that Erik the Red actually settled the first European colony in North America (Greenland to be exact), although he wasn't a much better person than Columbus was. Plus the land was covered with Native Americans.
Now even though I don't have to be, I will be fair and balanced and give you a link to a PDF file defending Columbus.
So was Chris Columbus a good guy or not? Don't know, don't care. All I know is that thanks to him my bank is closed and I have no money. So he and his spices or slaves or whatever the hell he was trading can go jump in a lake. Bastard!
And thank you for causing my bank to be closed which means I am cash less (since my new ATM card hasn't arrived yet) until tomorrow morning at 9:00.
You know, when I was in school, I really didn't mind Columbus Day. It was a free day off! But now it just pisses me off. Why is it a holiday to begin with? Columbus wasn't the great man that he's rumored to be. Reports are abound that he was nothing more than a slave trader that got lost. (He was looking for India, not North America.) (A second link) He landed in the Bahamas and began to exterminate and enslave the Arawak Indians.
Let's be honest here. If Columbus hadn't landed in North America, someone else would have. In fact, many already had. It's reported that Erik the Red actually settled the first European colony in North America (Greenland to be exact), although he wasn't a much better person than Columbus was. Plus the land was covered with Native Americans.
Now even though I don't have to be, I will be fair and balanced and give you a link to a PDF file defending Columbus.
So was Chris Columbus a good guy or not? Don't know, don't care. All I know is that thanks to him my bank is closed and I have no money. So he and his spices or slaves or whatever the hell he was trading can go jump in a lake. Bastard!
posted by ewink at 11:50 AM
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2 Comments:
In South Dakota we have Native American Day instead. A native american poet I saw on Friday night said he's going to discover his neighbor's back yard today. I suppose Native American Day is more fair than Columbus Day, but whatever you call it, it's just another three day weekend.
Me, I'll take Muddy Waters Day (April 4) and John Lee Hooker Day (August 22). John Lee Hooker Day is great, because one long standing tradition of this celebration is to go into a bar and order one bourbon, one scotch and one beer.
I've heard Columbus was a homo. You know, he was on a boat with those slave dudes all that time. Kinda makes sense when you think about it. And what's the deal with the names of those ships, anyway? Nina? Pinta?? Santa Maria??!
Yeah, he was definitely a fruit.
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