October
12 is for celebrating the 517th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery
of America, for on that day in 1492, the Great Admiral landed on Guanahani (now
known as San Salvador or Watlings) island in the Bahamas.
We commemorate this as a true discovery in contrast to
all the claims of Vikings, Chinese, Irish, and others who supposedly came
earlier – for once and only after Columbus discovered America, it stayed
discovered.
Unfortunately,
Columbus Day is for most Americans just an excuse for a three-day weekend –
which is why it’s a holiday today, Monday October 10.
What
it should be is a commemoration and celebration of Western Civilization –
which is why the Left hates Columbus and his holiday.
So there will be
the usual spectacle of American Indians using the holiday to denounce the White
Man and his genocidal war-mongering culture-destroying earth-murdering
imperialism, blah blah blah – with White Liberals joining in, masochistically
condemning their own civilization.
If it’s your
misfortune to run into any of these folk bemoaning the nightmare and tragedy of
our coming here, you might suggest to them that they abandon every vestige of
the civilization they hate as so evil.
Not just every material
benefit – electricity, the wheel, and all post-Stone Age inventions. Every psychological
vestige as well – starting with the very concept of American Indian or Native
American or any other collective term for North American aboriginals.
The concept of American Indian is a modern one, not
possessed by any Amerindians until they learned it from Europeans. An Indian’s
pre-Columbian identity was that of his or her membership in a particular tribe
such as the Kiowa or Lakota.
This is why there
were no Indians in America when Columbus discovered it. There were Chippewa
and Iroquois and Mohawk and Miwok and Powhatten and hundreds upon hundreds of
others – but there were no Indians, because none of them possessed any sort of
pan-tribal notion of common humanity and cultural identity.
That
common identity they learned from us. As a reprehensible act of
cultural imperialism, the concept of “Native American” should be stricken from
their vocabulary as the politically correct thing for them to do.
The multitude of tribes here were in a state of constant
warfare with each other. Alliances were ephemeral and temporary. The fantastic
level of violence perpetrated by pre-Columbian Amerindian tribes upon each
other is documented by anthropologist Lawrence Keeley in War
Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.
Keeley
documents with both historical and forensic evidence that European settlers
were on the whole far more peaceful than Amerindians, who were far more violent.
Thus at
America’s founding, it was with good reason that Thomas Jefferson listed in The Declaration
of Independence as one of the “injuries and usurpations” afflicted upon the
Colonies by King George III was that:
“He has
endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian
Savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes and conditions.”
As you savor
celebrating Western Civilization today, reflect on how totally cool it is that
America’s founding document tells the truth with such political incorrectness
that it actually calls untouchably noble and pure “Native Americans” as
“merciless Indian Savages.”
For
Amerindians were certainly just as merciless and savage towards each other as
they were to us. In their state of perpetual war upon each other,
victorious tribes seized control over the land of a defeated one.
The Sioux, for
example, kicked out the native inhabitants of the Plains, moving there after
they themselves were kicked out of Canada by other tribes. Of course, the Sioux
culture of the Great Plains with the eagle feather headdresses and hunting buffalo
on galloping horses romanticized in the movies, was made possible by the
introduction of horses by Europeans in the first place.
So another thing the Columbus-haters would have to give
up on their reservations would be horses — in addition to cars, trucks,
motorcycles, bicycles and any other form of land transportation except their
feet.
That larger and
stronger tribes from Europe eventually conquered all Amerindian tribes and took
most of their land is in no way essentially different from their own
pre-Columbian history.
For all those
guilt-ridden liberals who think we should give it back – ask them to what tribe
are they donating their home and other property?
Ask them if they
are suggesting Amerindians relinquish all products of European psychological
imperialism, all Eurocentric concepts such as the earth goes around the sun,
reading, writing, mathematics, physics and chemistry, and all other educational
oppressions?
You can have a
lot of fun posing such questions to liberal lovers of the Stone Age – and
telling them to act as they preach. For if they don’t act to
abandon every vestige of the civilization they hate as so evil, they condemn
themselves as bottomless hypocrites.
So tonight –
most appropriately over a glass or two of Chianti, Montepulciano or other
Italian red of your choice (if you prefer white, perhaps a Pinot grigio) – give
thanks to the Admiral of the Sea, one of the great heroes of history,
Christopher Columbus, and the blessings of Western Civilization that his
discovery bestowed upon America.
Ps: I say all
of this, by the way, with my maternal 5th great-grandmother (born
about 1695) a full-blood Cherokee. And since it’s a three-day weekend,
there’s time to tell you a Political Correctness Corrected Story about Columbus
and how much damage Amerindians did to Europeans:
On August 3,
1492, Christopher Columbus departed the Spanish port of Palos at the mouth of
the Rio Tinto. After discovering islands he named San Salvador (in the
Bahamas), Juana (Cuba), and Hispaniola on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean,
he returned from his epochal voyage, reaching Palos on March 15, 1493.
According to the
journal of Spanish physician Ruy Diaz de l’Isla, the pilot of Columbus’s ship
had contracted a previously unknown disease marked by severe fever and
frightful skin eruptions.
The pilot wasn’t
the only one. By the time Columbus reached Barcelona, several of his
sailors had come down with this strange new disease and were treated by the
mystified Dr. de l’Isla. Unbeknownst to them, the sailors had acquired
the disease through cohabitation with infected native women on the discovered
islands.
A number of
these sailors were from Naples, and upon their return, the infection spread
throughout the city. Naples was the capital of the Kingdom of Naples
which controlled the entire southern half of Italy. When the young King
of France, Charles VIII (1470-1498) decided to conquer it, entering Naples with
a massive army in February of 1495, the infection was rampant.
As always, the first
goal of a conquering soldier is as many liaisons as possible with the local
women. This time such liaisons proved lethal. The new disease
devastated Charles’s army, which suffered a disastrous defeat at Fornovo in
July. As the French army retreated across western Europe, the disease
spread in its wake.
Europe had
finally begun to recover from the Black Death of the bubonic plague in the
middle 1300’s, which had killed fully half of all Europeans. Once
again, Europe was ravaged by a plague now known as morbus gallicus, the
French Disease. It would kill one third of the entire population
of Europe.
In 1521,
Girolamo Francastoro, an Italian poet, wrote a poem about the disease, which he
named after a shepherd in Greek mythology who refused to worship Apollo and was
infected by the vengeful god with ulcerous sores all over his body. The
name of the shepherd was Syphilis.
Liberals have
desperately searched in vain for evidence of syphilis in Europe before Columbus
so as to disprove its American Indian origin. Smallpox wiping out many
American aboriginal tribes has always been for liberals the ultimate malevolent
evidence of evil White Man.
Conclusive research shows however that syphilis is a New
World mutation of yaws, existing among American aboriginals for many centuries
before Columbus. An American Indian disease wiped out a third of Europe,
to the great embarrassment of liberals. See Case
Closed: Columbus Introduced Syphilis to Europe, Scientific American,
December 2011.
And one final
note. The book to read on the devastation liberal government programs
have wreaked upon American Indians is The
New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians, by
Naomi Schaefer Riley. Published just two months ago, it will break your
heart over what corrupt anti-capitalist socialist welfare has done to them.
