Every second Monday in October, Banks and schools are closed and government offices are empty in remembrance of the infamous European explorer, Christopher Kill-lumbus. For hundreds of years, Columbus has had a special place in the history of the New World. To AfRAkans, celebrating Columbus Day is actually celebrating the mass destruction of our own people! Instead of a day where we see parades and floats down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, it should be a day of mourning.
In other words ...if you are black and/or your ankhcestors are one of the indigenous peoples this mass murderer and his thugs, beast, robbers, rapist and murders came in contact ...YOU ARE OUT RIGHT INSANE TO CELEBRATE LET ALONE RECOGNIZE THIS AMERICAN / EUROPEAN WORSHIP DAY.
Not only was Columbus part of the initial european conquest of the world, his legacy serves as a blockade to the real history behind the purposely-covered fact that there were others, including AfRAkans not only in the America's, but sailed from other parts of the world to here well before him.
Still there's something HIS-STORIANS marvel Columbus for than the others. If you ask me, it's that thing that resides in YTs nature, the barbaric act of violence! He claimed everything he saw when he set foot on these territories. Native lands, mineral wealth, natural resources, and even the inhabitants immediately became European "property." This could only be launched with violence using torture, maim, rape, and other unspeakable acts.
Columbus himself wrote about his first encounter with the extremely peaceful and welcoming Arawak Indians of the Bahama Islands:
“They do not bear
arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by
the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron...They
would make fine servants...With fifty men we could subjugate them all
and make them do whatever we want.”
And so he did.
“I took some of the
natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me
information of whatever there is in these parts.”
It was all lies. Columbus was desperately attempting to justify their investment to continue with his exploitations of the Americas.
In Haiti, Columbus ordered the natives to bring him all of their gold. But there was hardly an ounce of gold anywhere on the island. So Columbus had them slaughtered. Within two years, 250,000 were dead.
Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: (1) the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous peoples, which lead to their extermination, and (2) the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.
Columbus' own writings reflect this increasing ideology on racism. When he tried selling Queen Isabella on the wonders of the Americas, the Indians were "well built" and "of quick intelligence." "They have very good customs," he wrote, "and the king maintains a very marvelous state, of a style so orderly that it is a pleasure to see it, and they have good memories and they wish to see everything and ask what it is and for what it is used." Later, when Columbus was justifying his terrorist attacks and enslavement of them, they became "cruel" and "stupid," "a people warlike and numerous, whose customs and religion are very different from ours."
Asar Maa Ra Gray
"Not to know is bad, but not to want to know is worst."
AfRAkan Proverb
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