Many countries in the World and elsewhere officially celebrate as a holiday the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas, but historians and activists over the years have tried to discredit Columbus’ reign as a famed explorer and instead hold him responsible for the mass genocide and enslavement of Native Americans who had been in the Americas long before Columbus was born or sailed the ocean blue.
President’s Day, in honor of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Day, and Columbus Day, are the only federal holidays that celebrate an individual from our history. Columbus does not belong in that company. It is totally disrespectful to the others we celebrate that we honor his life and lie about him to our children in history textbooks.
It is strange for the United States to celebrate Columbus, since he certainly didn’t “discover,” anything that wasn't already here.

Christopher Columbus and his Columbus Day Holiday are controversial largely because the real credit for 'discovering'(a place where people already lived) North America should go to Leif Erikson, whom they believed arrived 500 years before Columbus, but this is also wrong since both of them “discovered” a place that they’d never been to, but where millions of people already lived.

 

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