Christopher Columbus was a pretty awful dude. Besides not discovering that the world was round (people knew that) he enslaved natives, cut off their arms and hands when they didn’t bring him enough gold, raped and sold their women (including girls as young as nine or ten), and basically started the genocide of the original Americans. He should probably have an AMC television show, but not a national day.
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