tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post6154249491636916503..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: Why We Should Commemorate Columbus Day - Le DonneAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-4843806528072874602013-10-15T09:36:21.372-07:002013-10-15T09:36:21.372-07:00Read chapter one:
http://www.lifeaftercapitalism...Read chapter one: <br /><br />http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.info/downloads/read/History/Howard-Zinn/Howard_Zinn-A%20Peoples-History-Of-The-United%20States.pdf<br /><br />Anthony Le Donnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-59110157066629077232013-10-15T07:01:18.628-07:002013-10-15T07:01:18.628-07:00"'great man' fetish."
It matter..."'great man' fetish."<br /><br />It matters where the quotes go.Joshua Paul Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03970879028978093230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-65679092156350784012013-10-15T05:12:45.536-07:002013-10-15T05:12:45.536-07:00I do not agree with the negative perspective regar...I do not agree with the negative perspective regarding Christopher Columbus. He was a man of his time. I understand the critique but I believe it is inappropriate to blame Columbus for genocide or compare him to Hitler since Columbus did not commit genocide. Nothwithstanding Columbus apparent mistreatment of Native Americans, he was still a genius and had the courage to sail across the Atlantic ocean in search of new trade routes to Asia. In the process, he reached the New World. This is one of the biggest events in World History that cannot be denied.<br /><br />A positive fruit from Columbus contact with the New World was the rise of a new people: the Latin American. This new people arose from the combination of the European, Native American and African culture. In Latin America, we celebrate this day as "el Dia de la Raza." It is the birthday of the latino/hispanic culture. <br /><br />P.S. I am also going to defend Columbus as an aside matter since my high school was named after him.<br /><br />Regards,<br /><br />JoseAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12850768439272172402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-14010499490936855482013-10-14T19:51:22.955-07:002013-10-14T19:51:22.955-07:00I had never thought of the role of historiography ...I had never thought of the role of historiography in holidays. Columbus Day in light of "great man" historiography is fascinating. Having just read Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen's The Quest for the Plausible Jesus, these historiographical features are especially interesting to me. Solid analysis.JWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500711376420068057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-18799754854621953852013-10-14T19:40:44.495-07:002013-10-14T19:40:44.495-07:00On Facebook, I was hit with this criticism: "...On Facebook, I was hit with this criticism: "We are no longer celebrating Columbus; we are commemorating Columbus." Celebrate and commemorate are synonyms. If there is a subtle nuance there, it is lost on me. Perhaps you mean that we are now remembering Columbus for the terrible things he actually did. I can appreciate that. I think celebrating Indigenous People's Day would better facilitate that kind of reflection. Not to mention it is more genuinely post-colonial. Indigenous People are worthy of our honor, not because of what Columbus did, but despite it.<br /><br />Please allow me to clarify. I replied:<br /><br />Joseph, I don't see these as synonyms. Perhaps this is the root of our disagreement and likely my failure to communicate well. For example, I see holocaust museums, features of the trail of tears artifacts, Pearl Harbor and "Ground Zero" as commemorations, but not celebrations.<br /><br />-anthonyAnthony Le Donnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-11196535575292731952013-10-14T18:40:47.643-07:002013-10-14T18:40:47.643-07:00Of course, I agree anonymous. Columbus' ignobl...Of course, I agree anonymous. Columbus' ignoble place in history should not be whitewashed. But while we have the opportunity to do better, let us do better. By the way, we do him no damage in "stripping the man of his day" - we only damage ourselves by whitewashing our own history. We must remember it. Therefore we would do well to choose how to remember it.<br /><br />-anthonyAnthony Le Donnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-405244988811992142013-10-14T17:39:56.003-07:002013-10-14T17:39:56.003-07:00Don't you think it is because the social memor...Don't you think it is because the social memory of brown people and women were left out of history all together that we have rethought the wisdom of making a hero of someone who cut the hands off Natives, executed those who wouldn't be enslaved, and gave the women over to his men as sex slaves? <br /><br />To use Maya Angelou's most famous words, "When you know better, you do better." Should Columbus be in the history books, YES. Should children be taught that he is a hero? NOPE. Let us start that process by stripping the man of his day because we most certainly know better. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com