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Christopher Columbus Isn T Worthy Of A National Holiday

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Christopher Columbus isn’t worthy of a national holiday. For one thing, he slaughtered and killed Native Americans and brought over diseases as well. Also Colombus started the American holocaust such as the murder, torture, pillaging, robbery, kidnapping, and slavery of the native people. Additionally, he once said “They would make fine servants with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” In the long run due to the slavery and murderings of the Native Americans Christopher Colombus isn’t worthy of a national holiday.

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