Why Columbus Day Should Be Celebrated | Discovery Institute

Why Columbus Day Should Be Celebrated | Discovery Institute - SCOTT S. POWELL 

"The real Columbus whom few today know much about is an exemplary figure worthy of celebrating for many reasons...

• Some modern-day revisionist historians have taken cheap shots at Columbus, taking a chapter out of Lenin in charging him with being an imperialist. 
• Others blame Columbus for unfair treatment of the various indigenous people without considering that it wasn’t so much Columbus, but the mix of his Spanish machismo crew encountering ruthless indigenous tribes that included cannibals and the warrior culture of the Aztecs that contributed to the strong force needed to survive.

In fact, Columbus never set foot on or even saw any territory that later became part of the continental United States.