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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Detecto92, post: 1547963, member: 75105&quot;]Idk why we honor CC, if you do your research, he was a horrible person.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia">Columbus was so impressed with the hard work of these gentle islanders, that he immediately seized their land for Spain and enslaved them to work in his brutal gold mines. Within only two years, 125,000 (half of the population) of the original natives on the island were dead.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia">If I were a Native American, I would mark October 12, 1492, as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#First_voyage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#First_voyage" rel="nofollow">black day</a> on my calendar.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia">Shockingly, Columbus supervised the selling of native girls into <a href="http://www.danielnpaul.com/ChristopherColumbus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.danielnpaul.com/ChristopherColumbus.html" rel="nofollow">sexual slavery</a>. Young girls of the ages 9 to 10 were the most desired by his men. In 1500, Columbus casually wrote about it in his log. He said: &quot;A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about <a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow">looking for girls</a>; those <a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0088c3">from nine to ten are now in demand.&quot;</span></a></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow"></a><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow">On his second trip to the New World, Columbus brought <span style="color: #0088c3">cannons and attack dogs</span>. If a native resisted slavery, he would cut off a nose or an ear. If slaves tried to escape, Columbus had them burned alive. Other times, he sent attack dogs to hunt them down, and the <span style="color: #0088c3">dogs would tear off the arms and legs</span> of the screaming natives while they were still alive. If the Spaniards ran short of meat to feed the dogs, Arawak babies were <span style="color: #0088c3">killed for dog food</span>.</a></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow">Columbus&#039; acts of cruelty were so unspeakable and so legendary - even in his own day - that Governor <span style="color: #0088c3">Francisco De Bobadilla arrested Columbus </span>and his two brothers, slapped them into chains, and shipped them off to Spain to answer for their crimes against the Arawaks. But the King and Queen of Spain, their treasury filling up with gold, pardoned Columbus and let him go free.</a></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/History/Hero-making_LMTTM.html" rel="nofollow">Y</a>a....not gonna celebrate that guy.</span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000000">Historically, CC did not even discover america. </span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Georgia"></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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