[Sca-cooks] OT: With all due respect

[James Prescott]

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