[Sca-cooks] OT: With all due respect
James Prescott
prescotj at telusplanet.net
Sun Oct 10 15:18:55 PDT 2010
Whoa!
Are you implying that the "colonization of the Americas", aka the brutal theft
of two continents from their inhabitants, with rape, murder, and genocide, is
somehow on a higher moral plane than the slave trade?
Thorvald
At 4:04 PM -0400 10/10/10, Kathryn Wood wrote:
> Uh, actually, Columbus's exploration of the Americas did set off a
> rush to exploit them, first focused on gold, then on labor. It was
> only after the indigenous peoples failed to be a lucrative source
> of labor that the Europeans turned to the Africans as a source.
> Honoring Columbus as a symbol of the colonization of the Americas
> without acknowledging his role in the slave trade is ignoring a big
> old elephant in the room.
>
> Kate
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