History is a Lie, Christopher Columbus Was NOT a Hero. He Was a Murderer & Tyrant
Like most people in the world today, I grew up being indoctrinated to believe Christopher Columbus was a hero that discovered America, nothing could be further from the Truth.
Not only did Christopher Columbus not discover the Americas — since it was already inhabited and he was actually in search of India and therefore lost — but he was what could justifiably be called a psychopath since he oversaw mass murders, tortures and rapes carried out under his watch. In fact, he helped facilitate what came to arguably be the greatest genocide in known human history.
The world might have never known about what really took place here, had it not been for the investigative journalism of a priest named Bartolomé de las Casas, who in the beginning supported Christopher Columbus until he became aware of the atrocities being committed. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which documented some of the most disturbing crimes against humanity in history.
In his writing, de las Casas documents how the invading colonizers brutally slaughtered babies, burnt innocent civilians alive, cut off the hands of workers who did not meet their quota for mining precious resources, and tortured and sexually trafficked women and children, amongst other things that invariably come to document the beginnings of an indefensible genocide which has gotten far too little attention in the history books.
One of many statues around the world glorifying Christopher Columbus
Image credit: Kenneth C. Zirkel/Wikimedia Commons
Although most people would argue that the Native population was savaged, and backward, Christopher Columbus’ journal clearly refutes these claims, where he himself noted how remarkably kind and giving they were, how they shared everything they had, and how they had no skillful weapons and were very timid. This is not to say that all Native tribes were the same — since there were tribes proficient in war and the inherent brutality associated with it — but on his encounter with these people that proved not to be the case…
