Thom Hartmann: Christopher Columbus Was the Isis of Our Day

[thomhartmann]

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[Old Crow]

1. Good clip.

I knew perhaps half of this. Columbus was even worse than I thought. Thanks for posting.

[gordianot]

2. Torture, pillage, murder is his legacy when you think about the real legacy of European Knighthood.

To this day he is sold as a semi religious icon, at least they do not burn crosses on lawns like another prominent order of American Knighthood.

[Snarkoleptic]

3. kickski

[merrily]

4. Columbus was worse. No one on these shores had "done him wrong" on any level before he arrived.

[jtuck004]

5. This. n/t

[merrily]

6. In Boston, some years back, someone beheaded his statue, which stands in Christopher Columbus Park.

The neighborhood used to be an almost exclusively poor Italian neighborhood. Now, because it also a waterfront neighborhood that is convenient to both Government Center and Massachusetts General Hospital (among other things), it's a mix of restaurants, yuppies, students and some of the Italians who have lived in it for decades and are now elderly.

Christopher Columbus Park occupies really choice waterfront real estate.

[stonecutter357]

7. rt.

[navarth]

8. always kick for Thom

...who happens to be on RT this time. Fine with me.