Columbusing

10/14/2019

Daily Literary Quote
“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
-James Joyce

Journal Prompt
Take a look at this article from The Oatmeal. What are some issues with the myth that Christopher Columbus "discovered" the Americas? Explain. Do you think Columbus should be honored with a holiday in the United States? Why or why not?

48 Comments

Paul

10/14/2019 10:36:52 am

Columbus did discover America but he made it possible for us to come over here. I think it should just because he made it possible for us to come here and help mapping it.

Dakota

10/14/2019 10:43:46 am

False Leif Eriksson did.

Kelton

10/14/2019 10:46:04 am

That’s true he did not discover it.

Cole

10/14/2019 10:48:42 am

Yea the Vikings discovered it

Charlie

10/14/2019 10:51:13 am

Technically, people before the Vikings discovered it.

Caleb C

10/14/2019 10:52:58 am

I agree that he made it possibly for people to come over and settle this land which is very important.

Loon

10/14/2019 10:41:06 am

I don’t Columbus should have his own holiday because he wasn’t the first to discover America.

Dakota

10/14/2019 10:43:24 am

You’re very right

Kelton

10/14/2019 10:47:34 am

I agree with this.

Caleb C

10/14/2019 10:54:07 am

I kinda agree that maybe he shouldn’t have a holiday because he did a lot of bad things to the natives that helped the settlers survive.

Dakota

10/14/2019 10:42:42 am

A issue sue is that Columbus wasn’t the first one to explore the America’s Leif Eriksson did. A Viking traveling for places to conquer. He’s not famous because he didn’t write a journal about it. I think it should be Eriksson day.

Dylan

10/14/2019 10:44:54 am

I like the sound of that holiday a lot more than Columbus Day

Loon

10/14/2019 10:45:12 am

I agree

Cheyenne

10/14/2019 10:53:43 am

I agree that it should be called Erikson day, and that even though he didn’t write a journal he should still be recognized.

Charlie

10/14/2019 10:58:05 am

I believe we should have Erickson day

Tamryn

10/14/2019 10:42:48 am

Even though Columbus didn’t prove the Earth was round, he still found “The new world” and made it possible for us to be here today. I believe it should be honored in the United States as a holiday.

Sydnee

10/14/2019 10:45:33 am

You got a point.

Loon

10/14/2019 10:46:30 am

I disagree

Cole

10/14/2019 10:46:36 am

I agree with this

Wylie

10/14/2019 10:49:54 am

Noice

Cheyenne

10/14/2019 10:55:24 am

I don’t totally disagree with you but I do believe that it shouldn’t be called Columbus Day though.

Dylan

10/14/2019 10:43:19 am

No I don’t think that Christopher Columbus should have a holiday. According to the article the main things that we remember him by are not entirely true. For example he didn’t discover the “New World” someone 500 years before he sailed had already discovered it.

Riley

10/14/2019 10:48:18 am

It seems like nothing that we are told is true.

Brooke

10/14/2019 10:49:19 am

I agree with you.

Kelton

10/14/2019 10:44:21 am

I don’t think he should have a holiday to himself. Props to him for starting a new era of trade and a new future in the Americas, but he didn’t discover it and his main focus was on the gold not the land itself.

Dylan

10/14/2019 10:46:41 am

I agree. I don’t think we should celebrate someone who was only in it for the money.

Destiny

10/14/2019 10:47:01 am

That’s a good point.

Sydnee

10/14/2019 10:47:19 am

He didn’t have the right intentions. Good point

Wylie

10/14/2019 10:50:09 am

I agree

Wylie

10/14/2019 10:44:42 am

No because he didn’t discover the u.s

Riley

10/14/2019 10:49:01 am

Very to the point. Indeed he did not discover anything.

Troy

10/14/2019 10:49:39 am

Did he help make it known?

Sydnee

10/14/2019 10:44:49 am

I don’t think he should because he did a lot of bad things when he came to America.

Destiny

10/14/2019 10:46:11 am

That’s very true.

Owen

10/14/2019 10:59:59 am

I agree with this dearly.

Destiny

10/14/2019 10:45:01 am

I think that we shouldn’t, Columbus end up killing 3-5 million people by bringing over a disease. He only cared about the money he would get for finding the land. I think it was a mistake on making this day a celebration.

Cole

10/14/2019 10:45:46 am

I believe that it should be because he opened the exploration of the new world that we now have settled

Riley

10/14/2019 10:47:29 am

Columbus did not discover the America’s as Leif Erickson had already discovered it many years prior. Columbus slaughtered and committed atrocities towards the people. I don’t think he deserves a holiday. I think he should have been shunted and cast out of our history books but that will never happen.

Troy

10/14/2019 10:49:13 am

I agree with this comment

Brooke

10/14/2019 10:50:27 am

I agree with you that he shouldn’t be in history books in school.

Owen

10/14/2019 10:58:21 am

Understandable

Brooke

10/14/2019 10:48:42 am

He didn’t descover it because someone else did five hundred years ago someone did and people lived there. I don’t think we should honor Columbus dat. All he did was collect a lot of gold and murdered millions of people.

Troy

10/14/2019 10:49:00 am

I wouldn’t say Columbus discovered America but he made it known wide spread

Charlie

10/14/2019 10:49:46 am

Columbus did not discover America plain and simple. What he discovered however was there was gold in America but he wasn’t the first to discover the land. Also they knew the Earth wasn’t flat. Columbus isn’t even the hero in this story. I don’t believe he should have his own government holiday, because he isn’t deserving of it.

Cheyenne Ward

10/14/2019 10:51:33 am

Some of the issues with the myth that Christopher Columbus discovered America was the slave trade and he way he treated these people to get gold. Though people say he’s a bad person and shouldn’t be celebrated I believe no he didn’t need to do those bad things and no he shouldn’t be celebrated because he never actually discovered America someone else did, Lief Erickson should be celebrated.

Caleb C

10/14/2019 10:51:52 am

Although Christopher Columbus did not discover the America’s he did pave a path for people to come over and create the country we know today. Leif Erickson discovered the America’s but the natives were there long before any other man. I’m not sure if he should have a holiday he did cut the hand off of non paying natives but he also paved the way for this county.

Tyrell Wortley

10/14/2019 10:52:58 am

I knew Columbus did some messed up stuff (because the past was a different country), but I didn’t know how messed up. I don’t believe that he should deserve his own holiday. However, he should still not be forgotten less history is to repeat. Columbus and his men I like to compare to alqida or the Nazis, they did horrendous things and shouldn’t be forgotten but they don’t deserve a holiday. Why not turn Columbus Day into a day celebrating the Natives, the people WAY before him, or the Vikings (who did both bad things and yet found America before Columbus).

Owen

10/14/2019 10:56:51 am

He wasn’t the only one that knew the earth was flat. He wasn’t the first to discover America but he claimed to be. I think whoever discovered it should be the main person of the holiday but he should be recognized for other things he did.

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