Columbus

Was Cristopher Columbus a hero or a villain?

            Since elementary school, we have been taught that Christopher Columbus was a hero and that he discovered the America we know today. However, these stories are not told through the right point of view. Was not told through the Indians who barely survived his encounter, his story was told by the Spanish, who deemed him a hero, Columbus who pronounced his discovery and actions as progress. Using the word progress to mask the mass genocide he committed when discovering America. Colobus told Spain that the natives were willing to trade everything, when in reality he just stole all their gold and enslaved their people.Once there was no gold left, they were forced on to encomienda’s, large slave estates. Not only did he steal and lie to the natives he killed and enslaved most of the Natives forcing them to work in mines, which also would lead them to their death. And despite his heroic appearance as discovering the New World, our Columbus Day celebration is merely celebrating how Columbus's wrong doings brought us here today.

America went through the same in the Philippines , thinking they were doing right by their country by killing 3 million innocent Filipino children and civilians during the early 1900s.