I still can't believe this is a freakin holiday. Do you know the true story of Columbus or the lies or untold stories told in our current learning institutions? Regardless, please read what we as an American culture are celebrating and what or whom we are teaching our children in our public school systems to be a hero. What a shame...when are we going to tell our children, especially Black children the truth.
After reading this article...sit back and ponder on why are the Haitian people having such a hard time in their society. Just maybe...something to do with their horrific past and how they were treated by our so called heroes might have something to do with it. Oh yeah...then think about how slavery had an effect on Black America and then just maybe things might start to piece together for you.
Sidebar: If you want to see a great video, go and purchase the PBS special “Black in Latin America" dvd. It's only $19.95 and I'm sure you'll learn something you never even heard of the public school indoctrination system. The video does an excellent job breaking down how Europeans and Americans brought racism and destruction in these area which still excess from those ignorant of their pass.
Black in Latin America DVD:
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=11384533
I say again...would Columbus be a hero if we knew the truth, I doubt it. But, if you don't know the truth because you refuse to seek it then who really is at fault. Unfortunately, some people WILL get the truth but reject it because the lies have been embedded in their brains for so long they refuse to "SEE THE LIGHT." Tragedy!
Let it be said..."The truth and spiritual knowledge will set you free."
Ancient AfRAkan Proverb
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
By: Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA
The original Haitians were called the Arawaks or Tainos. Christopher Columbus wrote in his log that the Arawaks were well built with good bodies and handsome features. He also reported that the Arawaks were remarkable for their hospitality and their belief in sharing. He said, "they offered to share with anyone and that when you ask for something they never say no." The Arawaks lived in village communes with a well-developed agriculture of corn, yams, and cassava. They had the ability to spin and weave, as well as being able to swim long distances. The Arawaks did not bear arms nor did they have prisons or prisoners. Columbus wrote that when the Santa Maria became shipwrecked, the Arawaks worked for hours to save the crew and cargo and that they were so honest that not one thing was missing. Arawak women were treated so well in early Haitian society that it startled the Spaniards. Columbus said that the Arawak men were of great intelligence because they could navigate all of their islands and give an amazingly precise account of everything.
The chief source, and on many matters the only source of information about what happened on the islands after Columbus arrived, was noted by a Catholic priest named Bartolome De Las Casas who lived during the time of Columbus. He transcribed Columbus's journal and wrote a multi-volume "History of the Indies." Las Casas says that Columbus returned to America on his second voyage with seventeen ships and with more than 1,200 heavily armed men with horses and attack dogs. Their aim was clearly to obtain as much gold and as many slaves as possible according to De Las Casas. Columbus went from island to island in the Caribbean, taking Arawaks as captives. He ordered everyone over the age of 14 to produce specific quantities of gold every three months, and if the Arawak could not produce this quota, Columbus then had his hands cut off; and left him to bleed to death.
If the Arawaks ever tried to escape, they were hunted down by the attack dogs and either hanged or burned alive. Within just two years, half of the three million Arawaks of Haiti died from murder, mutilation or suicide. Bishop De Las Casas reported that the Spaniards became so lazy that they refused to walk any distance; and either rode the backs of the Arawaks or were carried on hammocks by Arawaks who ran them in relays.
In other cases, the Spaniards had the Arawaks carry large leaves for their shade and had others to fan them with goose wings. Women were used as sex slaves and their children were murdered and then thrown into the sea. The Spaniards were so cruel, they thought nothing of cutting off slices of human flesh from the Arawaks just to test the sharpness of their blades. Bishop De Las Casas wrote, "My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.
Christopher Columbus started the Trans-Atlantic slave trade by taking 500 of the healthiest men back to Spain to sell into slavery, and the proceeds from the sale helped to pay for his third voyage. The massive slave trade moving in the other direction, across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas, was also begun in Haiti and was started by the son of Christopher Columbus in 1505 A.D. On his third voyage to Haiti, Queen Isabelle's new Governor, Francisco De Bobadilla, had Christopher Columbus and his two brothers arrested and sent back to Spain in chains as prisoners for their crimes against the Arawaks.
Would Columbus Day still be celebrated if the real history of Christopher Columbus were told from the viewpoint of his victims?
For more insight on Black People & Their Place In World History, click on:
http://www.computerhealth.org/ebook/articles.htm
Ankh Uja Sbn (Life, Strength & Health),
Asar Maa Ra Gray
"Not to know is bad, but not to want to know is worst."
AfRAkan Proverb
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