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I was taught when I was a little girl that christopher columbus was a hero cause he found the “New World”. To what I have read in Mrs. Forbes english 3 class. Christopher Columbus is a villain in my opinion. Why you ask? Let me explain. My impressions on Columbus when i was just a young child was he helped discover the place that i lived today and if columbus didn't find this land then i wouldn't be here today. Well another thing that they taught was this little saying “ In 1942 Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. What I didn't know Christopher Columbus was the first man that started slave trading. Columbus didn't discover america the indians (native americans) was here first. So why do we celebrate this criminal's day? We celebrate it because …show more content…
Columbus sold the little girls to his men and let them rape and sexually assault them. 9 and 10 year olds was the ones that was most wanted. Columbus wanted all the indians as slaves. One of columbus’s men was the one that discovered america not columbus. Columbus throw his journal into the ocean because he was gonna get hit by a hurricane. The thing is what upsets me is our little ones in schools are learning that columbus was a wonderful “hero”. When columbus is very a very bad person. My feelings for christopher columbus right now are that columbus is a worthless piece of trash. He sold little girls to be sex slaves, he made indians slaves. The indians killed their babies just so they didn't have to let them grow up in this. My opinion on columbus day is that columbus day is a worthless day that should be not celebrated. It should be a day that should be in memory for the indians that was sex slaves or raped till they died or committed suicide. That rotten man doesn't deserve as much praise as he gets because he is basically a piece of trash. So in conclusion my opinion on Christopher Columbus does not need his own holiday nor does he deserve to have a headstone where he is buried. We should've just took him out to sea and tossed his body into the ocean and let it never be seen again. Why do i say this? Columbus is a criminal and a nasty

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