My sister did a report on Columbus in third grade circa '93.

She mentioned all the atrocities he committed like how he was the first to start scalping the natives as proof that he had really reached the West Indies.

Yeeeah, her teacher tried to fail her and she got lots of shitty looks for that.

I don't get it. When I moved to NYC people acted like Columbus day was a big deal. I even got the day off work for it. I thought that was the weirdest thing ever. Aside from elementary school (which is completely full of shit about almost everything) I didn't think people even paid attention to Columbus day. Anybody with half a brain knows about Erik the Red and his son. And anyone with any book lurnin' knows the Basques were probably here before that. Not to mention it doesn't really take ANY deductive power at all to know who was here first(Jesus and the Mormons).

That said, name an important historical figure from around 1492 that wasn't a monster. Shit, the natives would've happily killed us all if it got us off our land.

Seams like this is a pretty weak statement to make that a lot of people will probably never care about.

EDIT: ...oh wait, ok, I wasn't done watching the video. I'm all for a day to remember the indigenous people that were here first. Whatever.