Was Columbus as bad as The Oatmeal says?

Bartolomé de las Casas eventually retracted those views, however, and came to see all forms of slavery as being equally wrong. In The History of the Indies published ... Less than a year after the publication of this comic, Columbus Day was renamed to Indigenous People's Day in Seattle. I love you, Seattle. read more

The guy from Oatmeal also ignores that Columbus diary was lost and never found. What we use today as “Columbus memories” were written decades after by different people who could have altered the whole thing. read more

All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus himself. read more

(In fact, he says at the bottom, "All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Lowewen.") That said, the point is accurate: celebrating Columbus for connecting Europe to the Americas is like celebrating Hitler for connecting Germany to Poland. read more