For DU's annual Columbus Day Freak Out: Here's The Oatmeal on Columbus

[FSogol]

Well worth the short read:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Happy Bartolome Day!

I never knew this horrific history on Columbus. This gives me a fresh perspective on this murderer and rapist of children.

[CBGLuthier]

2. Bumretch Nebrahoma, tells me all I need to know about the author of this piece,

another of the fucking elite.. dismissive of 90 percent of the country because they are not as enlightened as them and still ranting about an asshole who has been dead for almost five hundred fucking years.

Drivel.

[FSogol]

3. LOL, webcartoonists are now our nation's elite? Who knew?

Plus, the only ranting I see is yours. Sorry you didn't like the story. Enjoy your cherished myths.

Better steer clear of these books. This web cartoon was based on them:

'A People's History of the United States', by Howard Zinn
'Lies My Teacher Told Me,' by James W. Lowewen

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Oh please.

Had we not engaged in legend-building at the public school level, he would never have had to raise his voice in objection at all.

Truth is uncomfortable, eh?

[grantcart]

7. It really is less about Columbus and more about the power of redemption ala Bartolome

[RebelOne]

4. I knew all about this years ago

because I read the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me."

[FSogol]

6. Same here. Most people only know the Columbus myths and not the Slaver Columbus

stories.