The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 20th, 2000
UNITED NATIONS
Honor U.N., not Columbus
Friday, October 20, 2000
Recently in Denver, 147 American Indians were arrested for their protest of a Columbus Day parade.
Small wonder; Columbus is our most dubious hero. His own log (quoted in Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States") tells how the Arawak Indians greeted his crew with gifts and were rewarded with enslavement and brutality. Columbus' subsequent voyages were motivated by European greed for gold and slaves.
Oct. 24 is celebrated worldwide as United Nations Day. The U.N. was created after World War II "to save succeeding...
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