WHITE-WING AMURIKKKAN HISTORY: “Christopher Columbus Was Worse Than ISIS” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola ☮
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WHITE-WING AMURIKKKAN HISTORY: “Mother Outs Textbooks That Call Slave Trade ‘Worker Immigration’ Instead” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian ☮
AMURIKAN HISTORY: “Oklahoma Bill Replaces AP U.S. History with Ten Commandments and Reagan Speeches” / David Pakman ☮
AMURIKAN HISTORY: “How is Columbus Day Still a Thing?” / John Oliver
h/t: The Huffington Post
AMURIKAN HISTORY: “Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery” / Eric Kasum
Once again, it’s time to celebrate Columbus Day. Yet, the stunning truth is: If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Columbus’ reign of terror, as documented by noted historians, was so bloody, his legacy so unspeakably cruel, that Columbus makes a modern villain like Saddam Hussein look like a pale codfish.
Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?
If you’d like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it’s not for the faint of heart.
AMURIKAN HISTORY: “Reconsider Columbus Day / Columbus Day Truth / Columbus and Western Civilization”
Columbus and Western Civilization by Howard Zinn
In the year 1992, the celebration of Columbus Day was different from previous ones in two ways. First, this was the quincentennial, five hundred years after Columbus’ landing in this hemisphere. Second, it was a celebration challenged all over the country by people—many of them native Americans but also others—who had “discovered” a Columbus not worth celebrating, and who were rethinking the traditional glorification of “Western Civilization.” I gave this talk at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in October of 1991. It was published the following year in the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series with the title “Christopher Columbus & The Myth of Human Progress.”
Read Howard Zinn’s Columbus and Western Civilization here . . .
AMURIKAN HISTORY: “Columbus Day is Severely Fucked Up” / Dusty Smith
Always Question Authority 