Crazed Decision
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.
Christopher Columbus at the Court of the Catholic Monarchs (a painting by Juan Cordero). Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa in Italy, but made his exploration voyages (four in all) under the auspices of the Spanish crown. In 1492, just after Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain had reconquered the last Muslim outpost in Spain, they finally agreed to make a deal with Columbus and funded his voyages (the crown later partly reneged on the deal, particularly with respect to the degree of political power Columbus and his appointees were allowed to wield in the new territories – descendants of Columbus were involved in litigation over the matter until 1790). Interestingly, no contemporary portrait of Columbus exists – we have actually no idea what he really looked like. All statues and paintings of the man were made posthumously. A previous attempt to rename Columbus Day ”Indigenous People Day” in Utah was voted down by the Utah Senate in 2016. [PT]
It is amazing that, as of yet, the federal holiday commemorating the Genovese 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.
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 spread about conditions of pre-Columbian societies as well.
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 relics of the ancient Aztec Empire shows again what most knew, prior to the onslaught of leftist historical revisionism, namely that human sacrifice was practiced on a large scale.**
Human sacrifice on occasion of the festival of Toxcatl in the month of May – a young man who had been chosen by the priests to impersonate the god Tezcatlipoca for one year (and lived a life of luxury between the annual Toxcatl festivals), was sacrificed on the occasion. The Aztecs didn’t believe in wasting sources of protein, so the revelers ate his body thereafter. Tezcatlipoca was a major Aztec god, a kind of multi-purpose deity, but primarily associated with the night sky and war (the “embodiment of change through conflict” according to …read more
Source:: Acting Man
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