Why do we celebrate Columbus Day?

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • Who was Christopher Columbus? Mo Rocca embarks on a journey to discover more about the explorer we honor each year.

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  • @thankfulock
    @thankfulock 10 лет назад +88

    Let's celebrate Columbus Day by walking into someone's house and tell them we live there now.

    • @thomasstewart2870
      @thomasstewart2870 9 лет назад +8

      The land was not a state nor centralized, this isn't stealing as it must be considered owned to be considered stolen. The Native American society was lost, get over it. The March of progress doesn't stop because some butthurt fags feel bad for a failed people. Oh no, we stole the land from Neanderthals! We should stop what we are doing and all return to central Africa in apology! Was it a tragedy? Yes. Did the benefits outweigh the cost? Yes.

    • @mmsibi
      @mmsibi 9 лет назад +9

      +Thomas Stewart you must be white

    • @thomasstewart2870
      @thomasstewart2870 8 лет назад +6

      Why must I be white? Because only a white person could see past emotional arguments into the true gain made from a tragedy?
      Um...I guess sure if we lived in a society that didn't recognize private property. Part of ownership and legitimacy is the ability to back up your claim. Currency works because governments enforce its value; borders exist because governments enforce it; I have property because the government backs up that claim and can enforce it. The Native Americans clearly could not enforce their claim. Would you be crying if a pride of lions took another pride's land? Would you be upset if a troop of gorillas annexed another's territory? Why is it wrong for man to do the same?
      The benefits are more than apparent. Along with bolstering the vaults of European, Chinese, African, and Middle Eastern nations, it also served to diffuse staple crops like corn throughout the world. These benefits resulted in the industrial revolution and the, the information age. I'm sure you enjoy your computer, and lights, and plumbing, and abundance. No need to thank ol chris columbo, you thank him daily by partaking in the fruits of his labors.

    • @mmsibi
      @mmsibi 8 лет назад +4

      Thomas Stewart white guy attempting to justify the murder, rape, theft, robbery and genocide of an entire race of people. what a shock....

    • @mmsibi
      @mmsibi 8 лет назад +4

      look at you.....lol
      "Would you be crying if a pride of lions took another pride's land? Would you be upset if a troop of gorillas annexed another's territory? Why is it wrong for man to do the same?"
      Because unlike the animals in the jungle we have a higher mind-brain development? We have the capacity to determine right from wrong--it is after all what makes us human ....Well, apparently not all of us....lol

  • @ddlyify
    @ddlyify 2 года назад +7

    You guys missed the very reason for the holiday: the 1891 Lynching of Sicilian Americans in New Orleans and the subsequent diplomatic row which led to Benjamin Harrison declaring the day a federal holiday.

  • @vanessab2392
    @vanessab2392 9 месяцев назад

    I live in California, this is where I was born and raised. I work for 2 different school districts where I live. One of the districts opens up all of their schools on Columbus Day. The other district completely shuts off.

  • @tinamartinelli6763
    @tinamartinelli6763 11 месяцев назад +1

    Columbus was like Neil Armstrong in 1492. A Great explorer. Brave and a Hero!!! 🇺🇸

  • @nuoiptertermer4484
    @nuoiptertermer4484 6 лет назад +8

    He was looking for a route to China? I thought he was looking for a route to India.

  • @sc666666
    @sc666666 Год назад +1

    HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!

  • @jasons.6584
    @jasons.6584 7 лет назад +8

    Vespucci rhymes with gucci

  • @tinamartinelli6763
    @tinamartinelli6763 11 месяцев назад

    That's AWESOME!!! Happy Columbus. Day!!! 🇺🇸💥

  • @concernedcitizens2499
    @concernedcitizens2499 8 лет назад +7

    mass murderer. ..child trafficker. ..looter......etc

  • @Vaibhav360amazing
    @Vaibhav360amazing 6 лет назад +2

    I like exploration day

  • @bsummers1386
    @bsummers1386 4 года назад +6

    “EXPLORATION DAY” ERASES THE LIVES OF THE INDIGENOUS THAT WERE TOURTURED AND MURDERED

  • @wratched
    @wratched 7 лет назад +2

    Yuri Gagarin was the first person to circle the world!

  • @mysnellvilleblog
    @mysnellvilleblog 12 лет назад +2

    Love the idea of Exploration Day

  • @jeandarc5900
    @jeandarc5900 Год назад +1

    God bless Christopher!! He was a great man

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 6 лет назад +8

    If The Americas are going to celebrate Columbus day then Europe should celebrate Ghenghis Khan Day

  • @RavenclawFtW3295
    @RavenclawFtW3295 Год назад

    Funny how historical figures get slandered for things that didn't make them special then, and wouldn't have in any other era.

  • @stevenwaldvogel449
    @stevenwaldvogel449 10 лет назад +8

    Vespucci... Gucci

  • @george7776
    @george7776 4 года назад +1

    And sure glad he came here anyway , and eventually many others came here as well . Like the Christian Pilgrims at Thanksgiving , who set up a government, including religious freedom , with laws . And who after a hard year , had a Thanksgiving to God with the Indians they invited over . And who also were Christians who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible . And later on a free country was established . Thank God our creator for all his blessings America .

    • @TheWoodland12
      @TheWoodland12 10 месяцев назад

      If not for tisquantum ( more famously known as quanto) the mayflower people would have all died because they didn’t know how to survive here and he taught them how to life.

  • @TheWoodland12
    @TheWoodland12 10 месяцев назад

    Because of columbine my Native American ancestors continue to be called Indians when they really aren’t.

  • @onmain7142
    @onmain7142 3 года назад +3

    POV
    You're here because your teacher gave you this video.

  • @GA-yh3ge
    @GA-yh3ge 6 лет назад +2

    Cristoforo Colombo was a simple explorer trying to prove Copernico Theory that the heart was not flat.
    After he dead , 1506 , all the massacre was done from Spanish and British people.

  • @markherron1407
    @markherron1407 Год назад

    Africans discovered America and Christopher Columbus IS BLACK 🖤 Blessings and Hugs 💖💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕!

  • @Rammshtyn
    @Rammshtyn 10 лет назад

    It's when Columbus discovered the Native American Indians.

    • @6688ya
      @6688ya Год назад

      Columbus never set foot in north America , he crashed landed in Puerto Rico ,Hispaniola .

  • @JamesSmith-by3qy
    @JamesSmith-by3qy 2 года назад

    Yupiks are in both Alaska and Siberia and they regularly cross the Bering Strait.

  • @teach623
    @teach623 6 лет назад +3

    They aren't indians!!!

    • @SuperPhilly5
      @SuperPhilly5 2 года назад

      yes they are snowflake grow up

  • @chrivison
    @chrivison Год назад +1

    “Started by FDR to obtain the Italian vote for the democrats”
    Lol

  • @JamesSmith-by3qy
    @JamesSmith-by3qy 2 года назад

    Sarah Palin could see Russia from her house.

  • @westchesterny
    @westchesterny 11 лет назад

    Old post, but are you kidding. Um... yeah!

  • @JohnnyACE562
    @JohnnyACE562 12 лет назад

    You don't want to click on the link because it will prove you wrong. Real mature. {{-_-}}

  • @concernedcitizens2499
    @concernedcitizens2499 8 лет назад +9

    this man was a tyrant

  • @jomarin1000
    @jomarin1000 7 лет назад

    It is said that Italian Americans pressured the FDR administration to make Columbus Day a national holiday to avoid harassment by the FBI for possible connections to Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy. By so doing these elements were saying that without Italians there would never have been an America. Boloney of course but that is the nature of U.S. politics. In fact HIspanics not Italians discovered America.

    • @luke3807
      @luke3807 7 лет назад +1

      Settlers from Great Britain started celebrating Columbus here in the 18th century, and it had nothing to do with italians.

  • @smithyman33
    @smithyman33 11 лет назад +1

    I LOVE COLUMBUS

  • @eiriksinclair5986
    @eiriksinclair5986 Год назад

    A Brief History of America: Ring of Dragons
    c.1200BC: Greek Vikingar from Crete discover America, Mjolnir Erochson returns via Greenland
    1186BC: Vikingar move to Carthage shipping portage, the vacancy of Crete incites the Trojan Wars
    908BC: King Aegeus unites Troi with Athens, and relocates to England to oversee America
    850BC: Voyages to America take place, the ‘Isle of the Blessed’ by Homer, 10000 furlongs
    754BC: Roman God Mar begins the Latin colonization of Mesoamerica from Equador
    404BC: Plato’s Hermocrates Dialogue orated the founding Sagas of America, Peloponnesian War
    250BC: Phoenician colonization of America (Zeus’ Deluge), Mayan and Skraelingar occupation
    133BC: Religion of Thor begins with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and ‘300’ men, Tiber River
    1BC: American Vikingr relocate the Tree of Life (Mississippi) from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica
    1AD: Liefr Eirikson, Son of Eirik the Red, Vineland coastal cycle of the Ouroboros (Ring of Dragons)
    600AD: Cahokia Indians populate America’s Tree of Life, winter campsite at Teotihuacan
    791AD: Vikings lose the Battle of Uppsala Sound, thought to be a land battle, were taken by sea
    985AD: Lief Erikson, Son of Erik the Red, attacked along east coast, pulls men from Mississippi
    1040AD: Federated States of America, militarized Indian tribes to finish off European Vikings
    1068AD: Skraelingr and Stave Uprising brings end to Viking Era, Roanoke Island (NY) abandoned
    1255AD: Confederate States of America formed by Orion Armistice in Iceland, Heads & Tails Accord
    1307AD: Templar are purged from Europe, African trafficking from Gold Coast to populate America
    1459AD: Byzantine Empire invites father of Christopher Columbus to Bimini Island with him at age 10
    Podcast ‘Voyage of the Thundergods’: ruclips.net/video/xVxTmN322w8/видео.html
    The Kraken - Greek Arianism (æ); Macedonian head, 8 Persian tentacles
    Evolution of Time Loops: Enoch, Eroch, Erich… Odin’s Cobblestone Court
    Cycles of Ygododdin, in Europe:
    Visigoth Theodoeric (7) Gothic tribes, Camelot Spain
    Vikingr Erik the Red (7) Nordic tribes, Irish Derry
    King Arthur Knights (7) Templar tribes, French
    Cycles of the Ouroboros Dragon, in America:
    Leafar Eiriksson (7) Gothic tribes (Vikingar Greek)
    Liefr Eriksson (7) Swedish tribes (Vikingr American)
    Lief Ericsson (7) English tribes (Viking Danish)

  • @SA-xt1gd
    @SA-xt1gd 7 лет назад

    How about we just not make it a holiday at all if everyone gets so controversial?

  • @ablacktv1
    @ablacktv1 12 лет назад

    takes a barbarian to know a barbarian...

  • @michaelstrautz97
    @michaelstrautz97 11 лет назад

    Portuguese beat Chris by like 50 years and the vikings beat him by like 400 years. The civil wars main purpose wasn't because of freeing the slaves. And Paul Revear dint ride all those miles on horseback. History books are filled with bullshit about how great rich people were but, really weren't.

    • @colleen4ever
      @colleen4ever 7 лет назад

      Uh. yes it was. Look up the Constitution of the Confederate States of Amerca...the world 'Slavery' is listed 8 times! It;'s true!! 8 times!

  • @dme1016
    @dme1016 6 лет назад

    I think bcuz...um... Columbo was shot & killed in Columbus Circle in the 70's? Rigjt?

  • @michaelstrautz97
    @michaelstrautz97 11 лет назад

    yeah, beat Chris by like 400 years. We got the bones and buildings.

  • @horrhiunioj507
    @horrhiunioj507 2 года назад

    Columbus discovered America

  • @DrClawofOutpost69
    @DrClawofOutpost69 11 лет назад

    LOL! Disagree but it's still funny...

  • @colleen4ever
    @colleen4ever 7 лет назад +3

    Look. Columbus was NOT a great guy, no one is desputing that. He was horrible, but I got news for you, MLK wasn;t a Saint either. And besides, we're not celebrating HIM as a person! We're remembering the day he discovered the new land (or old land...or new old land..or whatever) . We're remembering this discovery...not HIM!

    • @GA-yh3ge
      @GA-yh3ge 6 лет назад

      colleen Colombo was a simple explorer trying to prove Copernico Theory that the heart was not flat.
      After he dead , 1506 , all the massacre was done from Spanish and British people.

    • @6688ya
      @6688ya Год назад

      We should have a federal holiday for Malcom X

  • @JohnnyACE562
    @JohnnyACE562 12 лет назад

    Leif Ericson??? SERIOUSLY??? {{>_

  • @TheBobbiK
    @TheBobbiK 12 лет назад

    no they arent.... lol they came from asia over the Bering Straight

  • @big8news
    @big8news 12 лет назад +1

    They killed natives americans that sad this story full of **** this day shoud be no as natives american day is that a lot ask for

    • @GA-yh3ge
      @GA-yh3ge 6 лет назад

      david garcia They........ yes Spanish and British , not Colombo .

  • @Countrymusicnumber1
    @Countrymusicnumber1 12 лет назад

    what evidence can you pan out?

  • @TLJ1025
    @TLJ1025 6 лет назад

    Lol all these people throwing fits about this guy are uneducated and dont understand history. How do u think damn near EVERY part of land in history was conquered? Invasion and war, this stuff was the standard of the time, not considered evil, this was normal back then lol. We have different standards now obviously, but back then this was the norm when you wanted land.

  • @coreyschuelke5900
    @coreyschuelke5900 4 года назад

    wrong wrong and wrong