Essay On Columbus Day

With Columbus Day rapidly approaching us, a day celebrated by millions upon millions of people who dearly believe that he is a hero, you begin to wonder. Do these people know what they are celebrating? While yes, he “discovered” the New World, however people fail to acknowledge that Columbus was in fact a mass murderer. In all likelihood, he brought to life “the worst case of genocide imposed on one nation of human beings by another”. Instantly you may have asked yourself why I placed quotation marks around “discovered”. I say this because, yes Columbus was the first one to bring the attention of America to Western Europe. As well as all the resources and benefits the civilized world had. However, no he was not the only person to ever lay
Not to mention, he was also granted a fourth and final expedition. This final expedition was no different then others. By 1504 that Taino were reduces to around 100,000 people. “Some of them were killed directly as punishments for “crimes” Such as not paying tributes to the invaders. Taino who either could or would not pay had punishments including getting their hands chopped off and being left to bleed to death. “Columbus and his men are documented by the chronicles of Las Cases to have part taken in mass hangings, roastings, and burning young children to death and feeding them to dogs for minor crimes”. Majority of Columbus defenders insist that these innocent people were killed by disease. Little do they know that these diseases were cause by the one and only Christopher Columbus and his poor living conditions in forced labour camps! These people were “deprived of their crops and fields, many fell prey to dysentery and typhus, were worked to death or were left to starve to death”. In other news, by 1592 only 200 Taino were left and they were considered extinct. As can be seen, Christopher Columbus was a brutal man who tortured and killed an entire population of people. Do you still think Columbus is a heroic figure? To me he is just a glorified