It’s Columbus Day. People are relaxing because they have the day off. They’re not worrying about anything. But, not knowing the horrifying history of this national holiday. Columbus Day is about an Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus. He was the founder of the New World, “they” say, even though he wasn’t the first European to come to the New World. Vikings arrived 500 years before he did. But then, Columbus came and took land from the Native Americans and claimed that he found it first. Although some people think that Columbus Day isn’t a problem, it really is and Columbus Day should bring awareness to the truth and horrifying things that happened to Indigenous people in the “New World.” According to an article on History.com, “Controversy
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Columbus Day dates back to the 19th century, when anti-immigrant groups in the United States rejected the holiday because of its association with Catholicism.” This shows ever since the 1800s not everyone liked Columbus Day because …show more content…
Teachers don’t really talk about what Columbus really. They just talk about how he found the world, but they don’t say what he did to it when he got there. This makes Columbus look like a good guy, but in the true story, he’s a bad guy. According to an interview from NPR, “There is no national curriculum for social studies, so every state determines for itself how it's going to approach the teaching of Columbus and the teaching of other explorers. We talk about it from a Eurocentric point of view. We tend to talk about Columbus who came to the Western Hemisphere. Here's what happened as a result of this interaction. And then we move on to the settlements that started and the colonies that began.” This quote shows that teachers don’t really show Afrocentric perspective. This is important because it shows the other side of Columbus Day and not on the Eurocentric side. Teachers need to teach the other side of Columbus Day. The Federal government should get involved in making sure that teacher teach the Afrocentric side of Columbus’s
Columbus Day dates back to the 19th century, when anti-immigrant groups in the United States rejected the holiday because of its association with Catholicism.” This shows ever since the 1800s not everyone liked Columbus Day because …show more content…
Teachers don’t really talk about what Columbus really. They just talk about how he found the world, but they don’t say what he did to it when he got there. This makes Columbus look like a good guy, but in the true story, he’s a bad guy. According to an interview from NPR, “There is no national curriculum for social studies, so every state determines for itself how it's going to approach the teaching of Columbus and the teaching of other explorers. We talk about it from a Eurocentric point of view. We tend to talk about Columbus who came to the Western Hemisphere. Here's what happened as a result of this interaction. And then we move on to the settlements that started and the colonies that began.” This quote shows that teachers don’t really show Afrocentric perspective. This is important because it shows the other side of Columbus Day and not on the Eurocentric side. Teachers need to teach the other side of Columbus Day. The Federal government should get involved in making sure that teacher teach the Afrocentric side of Columbus’s