Christopher Columbus Informative Essay

“In the Year fourteen hundred ninety two, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue,” ask any child above grade level 5 and they’ll be able to recite these exact words. Growing up as a child in America one is ‘taught’ this over and over until those words are drilled into their head like nothing else. America has been founded on arguably one of the most bloodiest histories starting even before Christopher Columbus ‘found’ America. Christopher Columbus is known to be the one who founded America, as stated in the previous statement, but people (historians, ect) like to erase or omit other key details about his journey and who he was. We know Christopher Columbus as the great man who opened the door for European people to expand and grow. He was a kind person who was graced by Isabella and Ferdinand themselves. He’s essentially a hero and should be remembered as one. In reality,
People call out Hitler and Stalin and criticise them for murdering millions of people, yet we know nothing of King Leopold II of Belgium. He “owned” the Congo and during his reign he murdered of 10 million people in the Congo, yet we know nothing about this. Even today we are facing the problems that people like to gloss over due to systematic racism and white supremacy. POC are murdered by police daily, from Emmett Till, to Michael Brown, racism has always been a problem and it will continue to be a problem. Mainstream coverage in American help add to this problem by spouting out whatever ‘facts’ they can without finding out the actual facts. In Germany, any acts that relate back to the Nazi’s is illegal, however in America the KKK is still allowed to come together for a simple fact; Germany is ashamed about what they did, America is proud of