Do u believe Christopher Columbus should be celebrated ? 🤔 ⛵
Well they say he was a drunk who abused women and stole jewelry. Wait a minute. Today is Christopher Columbus Day. But because of the latest discovery about him in the US we call this Indigenous People day. How do you feel about that 🤔 Should Christopher Columbus be celebrated at all. The banks and post offices are closed now. Gee thanks Chris. Comments. 😂
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I mean, he formally discovered the Western Hemisphere. That's a pretty big accomplishment. It should definitely not be understated that he took on a perilous journey and ended up making one of the biggest (quite literally) discoveries of the past several hundred years. He helped change the history of the world.
That said, the subsequent history on him is not so nice and neat. As with many things in life, it's complicated. Thousands of people were brutalized and enslaved by him, and millions more would die in the coming centuries as a result of his legacy, which definitely doesn't paint him in any positive light.
On the other hand, people are often products of their time and not really forward thinking. It doesn't excuse what he did, but it does put it into context. Future generations tend to judge the past ones based on contemporary values, and one day we will be judged the same way.
It wasn't like he was the only one behind all of that mistreatment. He was one of many similarly-minded men that sought to bring glory to their country and their god at the expense of other peoples.
