The Boston Globe, October 9th, 1997
Say, is it OK to admire Christopher Columbus again? You'll recall that in 1992, the quincentennial of Columbus's discovery of America, it most assuredly was not OK. Why, just saying "Columbus's discovery of America" was enough to get you in trouble with the commissars of political correctness. Back then, the National Council of Churches was accusing Columbus of an "invasion" that led to "genocide, slavery, `ecocide,' and exploitation." The American Library Association proclaimed that Columbus's arrival heralded "a legacy of European piracy, brutality, slave trading, murder, disease, conquest, ...
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