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Christopher Columbus’ First Report on Native Americans

Posted by NT Wrong on November 10, 2008

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“The people are loving and gentle and fit to be Christians. They are docile and will make good slaves.”
– Christopher Columbus, April 1493, in Foss, Undreamed Shores 1974: 18.

“500 years ago one man claimed
To have discovered a new world
Five centuries later we the people
Are forced to celebrate a black holocaust
How can you call a takeover
A discovery…
It’s as crazy as Hitler day
-Public Enemy, ‘Hitler Day’

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One Response to “Christopher Columbus’ First Report on Native Americans”

  1. James McGrath said

    November 10, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    You can delete this afterwards, but I decided to tag you with a meme:

    http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2008/11/random-facts.html

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