Yesterday, Columbus Day, was a day of mourning for me and many - TopicsExpress



          

Yesterday, Columbus Day, was a day of mourning for me and many people around the world. The atrocities of Christopher Columbus inflicted on the indigenous people of the Caribbean and the Americas have been well-documented--in particular by the eyewitness accounts of Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who later became the Spanish Bishop of Chiapas. The legacy left by Columbus was perpetuated by successive waves of European invaders: indigenous genocide.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:27:09 +0000

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