Seattle has just officially renamed Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples' Day" a good start in correcting the error of having a national Federal holiday for a historical fraud.
 
"Chistopher Columbus" was a Portugese Jew named Cristóvão Colón - NOT an Italian Catholic as believed by many now, whose explots have been systematically exaggerated and misrepresented since his death.
 
Part of the motive for those misrepresentations was anti-Semitism: Spanish court historians could not give credit for the "discovery" of the "New World" to a Jew - it was that simple. In 1492 Spain had just declared all Jews to be non-persons and ordered them all to leave or submit to forcible conversion to Catholicism; Cristóvão Colón was himself a "Converso" but was still connected to the Sephardic Jewish community in Spain, who helped raise funding for his voyage to the West - with a hope of discovering new land for JEWISH emigration.
 
And then there's the fake "discovery" of the "New World" itself - setting aside the fact that Vikings had colonies in North America centuries before "Columbus", there's this:
 
"..Portuguese sailors had already landed at Labrador (named after Joāo Lavrador) and Newfoundland, which they named Cod Island, some 40 years before Colón “discovered” America. The Portuguese had explored the Caribbean years before Colón, so he knew there was a new continent far to the west.
 
Falsification of the Columbus Legend
But Colón had a more substantive reason for “discovering” a continent he already knew was on the west side of the Atlantic. He often quoted the prophet Isaiah, who predicted (LXV:17) “…the discovery of new lands…for the exultation of Jerusalem…,” and St. John the Evangelist, who wrote (Apocalypse XXI:1, 2, 24) of “… a new land of the West; a new Jerusalem….”
 
He wanted to find a “Promised Land” for those who escaped the Inquisition. According to Barreto (p. 506) “His aim was the salvation of the Jews. It was also a Christian and Templar mission.”
 
jewishledger.
 
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But when Colón approached the King and Queen of Spain for assistance, he presented his intentions as being a search for gold, territory and slaves for the profit of the Throne - they gladly supplied him with further funding - money they had confiscated from Spanish Jews.
 
 
 Colón made good on that promise - he became a slave-hunter on his later voyages.
 
Why do we have a national holiday for this man?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

because he discovered america

And Why is it called "America?"

who cares?

Good one Caserio!

cas always aims to please

Amerigo Vespucci.

I knew that