Guest post by Antonius Aquinas
The Los Angeles City Council’s recent, crazed decision* to replace Christopher Columbus Day with one celebrating “indigenous peoples” can be traced to the falsification of history and denigration of European man which began in earnest in the 1960s throughout the educational establishment (from grade school through the universities), book publishing, and the print and electronic media. It is amazing that, as of yet, the federal holiday commemorating the Genoese explorer’s world- changing voyage has not come under attack. It is doubtful that in the current radicalized leftist ideological atmosphere, the national government’s recognition of Columbus will survive much longer.
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Most of what has been taught about Christopher Columbus and his holy and heroic patroness has been distorted, lied about, and politicized for the advancement of leftist causes, the most important of which is the smearing of the great European men of the past and to ridicule their descendants’ pride in their glorious heritage. The historical untruths have not stopped with Columbus and Queen Isabella, but are being spread about conditions of the pre-Columbian societies.
Instead of an idyllic land where the inhabitants lived in peace and harmony with one another until the evil, conquering white man appeared, life in the pre-Columbian Americas’ was, to say the least, quite grisly. A recent archeological discovery in Mexico City of the ancient Aztec Empire shows again what most knew, prior to the onslaught of leftist historical revisionism, that human sacrifice was practiced on a large scale.**
Archeologists have found more than 650 skulls where human sacrifices were conducted at the site of Templo Mayor, which was one of the primary temples of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. The new find substantiates the description of Andres de Tapia, a Spanish soldier who accompanied conquistador Hernan Cortes in 1521, and his account of the discovery of tens of thousands of skulls which were in the temple that became known as Huey Tzompantli. The number of skulls must have been vast for they “struck fear” in the hearty and seasoned Spanish explorers.
A depiction of human sacrifice in Mesoamerica
That the Spanish immediately ended this hellish practice is not much spoken about by history professors in their lectures to their gullible students, nor did the Los Angeles City Council refer to the satanic ritual during their announcement. Such inconvenient facts do not fit the liberal paradigm of the evil, marauding conquistadors subjugating the innocent Mesoamerican peoples to Spanish rule. Nor will there be much mention that Columbus’ discovery brought civilization to the pagans and more importantly – and horrifically for the politically-correct – Christianity to the indigenous peoples and a chance for eternal salvation.
The takedown of Columbus is also a swipe at the figure who made his exploits altogether possible. For Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand’s underwriting of the great Genoese Admiral’s voyage came only after they had completed their sacred mission of ridding the Iberian Peninsula of the dreaded Moors. Once accomplished, the Queen fulfilled her promise to finance Columbus. It has been contended by some scholars that the discovery of the New World under Spanish auspices was a reward by Divine Providence for the freeing of Spain of the Mohammedan menace.
Instead of enslavement and plunder that leftist historians accuse the Spanish Crown as motives for the exploration, the exact opposite was the truth, as candidly stated by Columbus himself: “she [Isabella] would continue the experiment for the glory of God and His Church, even if the islands yielded nothing but rocks and stones. She had spent more money . . . on enterprises of less importance, and would consider all she had disbursed well employed, for it would result in the spread of [Christianity] and the good of Spain.”***
Nearly every moral and ethical system ever devised has always condemned ingratitude. Acknowledgement and veneration of the glorious deeds of those of the past in which a civilization was built is a necessary duty for its preservation. When a culture’s icons are ignorantly defamed or replaced, it is a sure sign that it is in steep decline. The scuttling of the yearly commemoration of Christopher Columbus’ monumental expeditions by the city of Los Angeles is another ominous indicator of a deeply troubled and disintegrating society.
*Tyler Durden, “Los Angeles Changes ‘Columbus Day’ to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day.’” Zero Hedge. 31 August 2017. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-31/trump-was-right-it-will-never-end-los-angeles-changes-columbus-day-indigenous-people
**Reuters, “Tower of Human Skulls in Mexico Casts New Light on Aztec Sacrifices.” 2 July 2107. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tower-human-skulls-mexico-casts-new-light-aztec-sacrifices-n779106
*** Quoted in Rev. Frs. Alphonsus Maria Duran, M.J., and Paul Mary Vota, M.J., “Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?” (Chicago: Miles Jesu, 2000), p. 10.
Queen Isabella – a hottie
It’s actually a sign of a different people taking over a geographical area.
Protestants or genetically English taking over Northern Ireland.
Retreating into an area , a last foothold in Ireland that will due to demographics be gone in 20 yrs minimum 50 years maximum.
In our time, the pagan must be exalted and the Christian must be debased. We can see how it is working out.
“Instead of an idyllic land where the inhabitants lived in peace and harmony with one another until the evil, conquering white man appeared” I was a history major, and I never heard anything like that. Who are you claiming is/was teaching this?
Crow Creek Site:
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/stories/0201_0122.html
Apparently you’ve either been living under a rock or just not paying attention to the dynamic cultural changes taking place under our noses.
That still doesn’t answer who, if anyone, is teaching that. I didn’t hear anything like that from public school teachers or university professors. My kids went to public school, one is currently in high school, and they were not taught this.
Columbus discovers Pagan Injuns sacrifice a few hundred people (he couldn’t have known that is was supposedly in the thousands)
Columbus directly or indirectly wipes out many Injun Nations.
Yep, seems fair to me. /sarc
Good luck finding some indigenous peoples to celebrate on their special day. Even if the indigenous activists choose to ignore parts of their genome, most of them are mestizo and speak their indigenous language called Spanish.
The Christopher Columbus chapter in the History of Falsification would be a better title, essay. Slaving murderer, albeit from a “superior” culture.
I grew up with my father teaching me Columbus was a hero who made a heroic feat of navigation.
Then, starting in 1992, the liberals started a tradition of hatred and resentment of Columbus which surprised the hell out of me at the time and has only continued to grow ever since.
Later, I read Zinn’s damning account of Columbus and Spain’s conquest of South America and Jared Diamon’s Guns Germs and Steel.
And now I get to watch the politicians pandering to illegal aliens with their new-found Anti-Columbus stance.
It’s kind of hard for me to believe we can scapegoat the man for everything that went wrong in the last 500 years.
Yesterday, I came across a copy of Columbus’ ship’s log. I’m going to read what he had to say about it in his own words.
One thing I never understand is how upset and resentful and hateful liberals can be about otherwise ancient issues. The way they talk, you would think Columbus raped their feather-headed knife-weilding witchdoctor grandma last week. I wish I could feel as much hate and anger over the past as they do. It would make history so much more interesting for me. I could hate Soviets for oppressing my ancestors. I could hate the Czarists for oppressing my ancestors before that. I could hate the English and French for oppressing my ancestors before that. I could probably hate the Swedes or someone else for their oppression before that. And I could probably hate the Mongols or, I dunno, the Romans and Circassians and whomever else. And women! History didn’t do them any favors. And the Gays! Oh, the Humanity!
The liberals are trying hard to destroy the Conservatives but it looks like a bunch of Muslims trying to fly an airliner into a Confederate Monument to me. Happy landing, Useful Idiots.
I have a son in law who has blonde hair blue eyes and a Russian name. He also has papers that identify him as a member of his tribe in Montana. If he moved back to the reservation he would be eligible for all the freebies to which the Indians are entitled. He could not care less about indigenous people day.
As an Angeleno, I propose that we replace Columbus Day with Hernan Cortes Day.