Christopher Who?

Over the years, certain posts have become reader favorites and are forwarded en masse to friends and relatives. Our July Fourth, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas posts fall squarely into that category. Rather than disappoint, we present this post for Columbus Day 2021; it contains new material and perspectives while continuing tradition. You may read our 2019 and 2020 Columbus Day posts at: www.mllg.us.

In much of the USA, Columbus Day is a victim of cancel culture. Instead, Americans, and especially children, are force fed progressive claptrap that Columbus and all of western civilization (including you) are hateful, evil and geocidal, while all indigenous peoples are peace loving and noble. This is standard bilge by progressives, who seek to weaponize history to riddle Americans with guilt – especially on holidays.

The following states (or parts thereof) now call it Indigenous Peoples Day or Native Americans Day: AK, CA, DC, HI, IL, LA, ME, MA, MI, MN, MT, NV, NJ, NM, ND, OH, OK, OR, RI, SD, VT, VA, WA and WI. In Colorado, Columbus Day is now Mother Cabrini Day in honor of Frances Cabrini, who started schools and hospitals. Canada abolished Columbus Day entirely, replacing it with First Nations Peoples Day.

Were Europeans or Americans Guilty of Genocide?

Progressives like to blame Europeans and Americans for genocide and massacres. Most native deaths post-Columbus resulted from infectious diseases brought from Europe, many of which originated in and migrated from Asia. The bubonic plague (and Coronavirus) originated in China, yet no one accuses them of genocide. There is not one record extant that shows any European or American government had a policy of genocide. What transpired following Columbus’s discovery of America was the same as what happened throughout human history when any aboriginal people encountered a more technologically advanced society. It is disingenuous to condemn western civilization for innate human behavior unchanged since men lived in trees.

Why was Iraq, with a casualty ratio of 11 to 1, a battle and Wounded Knee, with a ratio of 3 to 1, a massacre? It all depends on who writes the history.

It also is a myth that aboriginals were noble and peace-loving. If that were true, how could a handful of Europeans subjugate enormous populations and territories? Columbus allied with the Arawaks against the Caribs, who were vicious cannibals. Cortez, with only 500 conquistadores, subjugated the Aztecs with the help of 50,000 natives terrorized by the Aztec’s ritual human sacrifice and enslavement. It s much the same with Pizarro, who had but 180 men when he landed in Peru. Yes, Europeans committed many brutal acts, but it is manifestly dishonest to focus only on those while ignoring or excusing equal (or even worse) savagery by indigenous peoples.

Wounded Knee – Battle or Massacre?

In recent years, Wounded Knee has become the latte-left’s poster child for massacres. Like many Americans, I once accepted the progressive and media narrative that Wounded Knee was a massacre. Once, while driving in South Dakota, I planned to visit Wounded Knee. I stopped at a convenience store and asked for directions to the “Wounded Knee Battlefield“. My interlocutor, who happened to be a native American, glared at me and in a spittle-flecked voice made clear there was no battlefield and that it was a massacre. After that encounter I resolved to learn more about Wounded Knee.

Following are the facts. At Wounded Knee, the Miniconjou Sioux suffered 197 casualties (146 killed, 51 wounded); the US Cavalry had 54 casualties (25 killed, 39 wounded). The ratio of casualties was three Sioux to one cavalry. The cavalry cared for the wounded Sioux and transported them a great distance to receive treatment.

In the Iraq war 50,000 Iraqis died to 4,421 Americans – a ratio of 11 to 1. At Agincourt, Henry V lost 400 men to 6,000 French – a ratio of 15 to 1. In the 331 BC battle of Gaugamela, the Persians under Darius III had 40,000 killed to 500 Macedonians under Alexander the Great – a ratio of 80 to 1. History is chock full of battles with even higher ratios, yet no one ever refers to them as massacres. Whether Wounded Knee was a battle or a massacre depends, more than anything, on who writes the history.

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The circus engulfing Columbus Day is nothing more than progressive Svengalis seeking to brainwash your children to despise America and all of western civilization.

To our readers in Colorado, happy Mother Cabrini Day; to our Latino readers, happy Dia de la Raza and to everyone else, we wish you a happy Columbus Day 2021!

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