Columbus Raped the Redskins … Time to Change the Name

http://www.globalpossibilities.org/columbus-raped-the-redskins-time-to-change-the-name/
The fact is Native Americans have never once referred to themselves as “Redskins.”
That derogatory and racist term dates back to the early years of the discovery of the Americas.
In 1492, Columbus was on a manic hunt for gold when he set sail, and eventually landed on an island known as Hispaniola, which today is the home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
While Columbus didn’t find much gold on Hispaniola, he did find something as good as it: people.
And, it was these indigenous people or “redskins” that Columbus thought would make great slaves.
When Columbus discovered the Taino indigenous peoples of Hispaniola, he wrote to the Spanish monarchs about them, saying that, “They are well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…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. Their spears are made of cane…They would make fine servants…With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. Here there are so many of these slaves…although they are living things they are as good as gold…”
Columbus’ real actions in the Americas have been replaced over time by a warm-and-fuzzy story of a bold explorer who set out to change the planet.
In reality though, as we learned from writings of Christopher Columbus’ own men, the “bold explorer” raped, pillaged, enslaved, and slaughtered people just to get rich.

Columbus eventually started up a global child-sex-slave trade, exporting Indians all around the world.
As he bragged to a friend in a letter written in 1500, “A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand.”
Eventually under Columbus’ rule, life for the Taino people on Hispaniola became so bad that they resorted to mass suicide.

Happy Columbus Day ...