Columbus day is federal holiday that comes around on October 12 every year. I’m happy that I live in America. I know someone had to discover it and set up shop for me to be here, but I don’t like how it was done. I don’t like that on October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stopped sailing the ocean blue, landed on the East Coast, and began the longest-running, most deadly genocide history has seen. The number of those killed during the Native American holocaust far exceeds the number of Jews that were killed in World War II. Not only were Native American’s murdered but the millions, but they were exposed to European diseases that their bodies had no prior immunity to. Along with being slaughtered by Europeans for their land, they were dying off in massive numbers from diseases like Smallpox and Measles. It’s true. Can’t be refuted.
I know that Columbus’s discovery of the New World gave way to Western society as we know it and for that I am thankful, but I can’t help but feel sorry at the same time. His discovery of the New World will always trump the genocide that Columbus incited in stories ans school lesson, but I believe it is also important for people to know what that discovery cost the indigenous populations that lived peacefully in the Americas long before we did. If it were up to me we would have Native American History month in October. This would work the same as Black History Month. We would learn about, and perpetuate programs to help Native American cultures regrow.
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