Why Columbus Day should NOT be a celebrated holiday Another Columbus Day is coming near. Columbus sparked many a great western ideal. History has always been a powerful storyteller, but not accurate. Often, accounts of injustice, stories of war, and genocide disappear for the people need to validate their position.
History is written by the victors, the ones who carry out the genocide, the leaders of the conquest.
Lies are sold as truth, and the truth is buried and forgotten. The truth has been erased and rewritten by generations of killers, ignorant accomplices, and speechless victims. Even modern historians identify Columbus conquest as the birth of racism. The conquest was the birth of an international slave trade, the start of the factory system of labor, and the death of an ancient way of life. Columbus was obsessed by the idea that he could sail to India, and he spent years arguing for someone to finance his voyage.