“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”


“In fourteen hundred ninety-two/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

“He had three ships and left from Spain/ He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.”
— Source Unknown

I’m old enough to remember a time when Christopher Columbus Day was a national holiday that was widely celebrated rather than shamefully downplayed and derided. Columbus has become the symbolic white devil harbinger of all that is evil about America’s founding: genocide and manifest destiny imperialism; slavery and racism; annihilation and exploitation of peaceful, “noble savages” living in harmony with the environment.