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| Portrait of Christopher Columbus |
We Americans are the survivors and beneficiaries of one of
the greatest heists and one of the greatest gangsters in all history… 520 years
ago wheels were set in motion that would ultimately change the world. The huge fact that irreversibly catastrophic
global change came about due to the stupidity of a man called Columbus carries
such irony with it.
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| Tomb or Reliquary of Christopher Columbus in Seville Spain |
In all fairness the
evaluation of whether this global tsunami was toxic or tonic depends on your palette
after sampling a broad selection of racial, sexual and socioeconomic entrees
either fried, grilled, sautéed, baked, marinated, boiled rubbed or served raw
and cold…
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| The African Slave Trade |
What exactly was stolen from humanity in 1492 that could
have had such a pejorative impact on global culture to this very day? The answer lay in the millions of faces and
lives beginning, peaking and ending behind them on all 7 continents of this
sphere we call earth. The truth lay
buried beneath 520 years of human struggle from the Alaska to the tip of
Argentina; the truth of two Americas has been buried beneath five centuries of
lies.
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| The demise of Pre-Columbian Cultures in South America by the Conquistadors began when Spaniards betrayed them with false alliances. |
The culture and legacy of
countless and nameless peoples has been systematically stolen, hidden and lost
in one of the bloodiest human dramas in all history beginning with a singular
event, The Great Heist of 1492.
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| Massacre at Wounded Knee |
The legacy of Christopher Columbus includes Genocide, Sexual,
Political and Intellectual persecution, Slavery, Economic extortion and
exploitation among other horrors. The continents
of The Americas including The Atlantic and Caribbean should be o’er flowed with
the blood of innocent men and women who died defending their right merely to
exist free in the world.
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| Native American Tribes were betrayed by American Treaties and forced to leave ancestral lands they had inhabited for millinea to subsist on paltry reservations |
Because we have been reminded of these atrocities to
humanity so many times we have grown immune to them but we should never be good
with them. At the end of the day the
voyage of Christopher Columbus was a failed journey. His theory was wrong, his navigation poor, he
never found the West Indies and what he did find was a world that was familiar
to the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks and Persians the new world would have been
spared despoilment for a few hundred years.
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| The Conquistadors frought genocide on Pre-Columbian Cultures |
I will never celebrate or acknowledge Columbus Day or Thanksgiving,
for to me they are reserved as days of contemplative mourning. Mourning for a world that might have been,
for a magnificent world of ancient wonders that has been lost. I have stripped away the very name, Columbus
Day having replaced it with the Lububrious title, “THE HEIST OF 1492”!
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| Native Americans in traditional apparel |
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| Native Amerian Chief |
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Written by D. Vollin
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