Columbus Day Discussion - Kamala Harris - Columbus Ushered In a Wave of Devastation

[Byrd]

It's Columbus Day. 
Democrats call it 'indigenous peoples day' now. 
Trying to wipe out anything white and European.
(Next they'll go after St. Patricks Day ... watch!)
But it'll always be Columbus Day.  

The arrival of Europeans was bad for the people who lived here.  But it was good for those who came and settled.  That's the way of the world.  Demographics change.   Long ago, ten thousand years ago, people lived here, then the Clovis arrived and wiped them out.  Then the 'American Indians' arrived and wiped out the Clovis.   Then the Europeans and others arrived and the American Indians were overtaken and dwindled.  Now it's all of South America invading .. and America will turn 'brown' and Spanish speaking.   And it'll be our own fault that we are over taken.  

Kamala Harris - Columbus Ushered In a Wave of Devastation

Kamala Harris quote about Columbus Day (which she calls 'Indigenous Peoples Day') - 


I like one of the comments left - 

I think you've got some of the timeline scrambled.

Native Americans were the first humans in the Americas (roughly thirty thousand years ago).  As they separated into "nations", the cultures changed.  The Clovis culture dominated one area but faded when the large Ice Age mammals died (they changed weapon types because you don't hunt rabbits with a big mammoth-sticking spear (you hunt them with throwing sticks.))

Vikings showed up and settled but were never that enthused about L'Anse Aux Meadows ("too far and snaky," as we say in Texas) and abandoned the place, though they did leave traces and some intermarried.

Columbus arrived and started enslaving and killing the people of the land (note: he was such a brute that Isabella (who funded him) ordered him back to Spain and threw him in jail.)  Spanish-speaking people arrived and conquered and enslaved most of the Native Americans living in Central America (and eventually most of those in South America and in a very large part of western North America.  Russians and other Europeans showed up... not to trade with sovereign nations but to enslave or kill or remove the Native Americans who lived there.  Once they had a settlement, the Europeans brought out their code of laws and used that to tell the original native owners that they had no right to the hunting and fishing lands (or to their own homes.)

Native Americans who survived had to learn new languages and were usually treated as second and third class citizens unless they could pass for White (as some of my ancestors did.)  They had fewer rights than Blacks did until recent times.  The names of their nations were often changed ("Cherokee" is not the name of that people, for instance.)

So the "brown people" that you're alarmed about are actually the descendants of the original Native Americans, who were enslaved and forced to labor on the ranches and farms of their Spanish-speaking European conquerors.