On Columbus Day it’s good to remember the following:
- Columbus discovered nothing. There were roughly 30 million indigenous people in North America at the time with complex and sophisticated cultures equal to urban areas in Europe and the rest of the world.
- The purpose of the voyage was based on greed. It was to find a trade route to Asia and bypass the muslim-controlled trade networks and thereby increase profits by reducing the cost of the middlemen traders.
The shameful outcome was European colonization, disease, plunder, slavery, and mass murder of indigenous people.
Columbus Day should be ended in the US as a nationally recognized holiday.