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The timing of this is great. Last night, I introduced Whitman Jr. to the work of Howard Zinn. He looked up from his reading and announced, "I don't look at Christopher Columbus as a hero any more. I look at him as a bad person!"

Columbus Day is going to be a treat for his third-grade teacher this year.

Maybe he did this.

 

What, they don't have child abuse laws in Indiana?

 

There is - no shit - a version of "People's History" for young people.

 

This one is a little more confusing:

 

Of course there is.

 

I denounce.

 

Do you object to Americans knowing Columbus, the man? The atrocities are detailed in his own writings.

 

If we can debunk Babe Ruth's called shot, surely we can grapple with the truth about Christopher Columbus.

 

I thought "A People's History" only came in a child's version.

 

The Spaniards were awful people. So were the French, and the Dutch, and the English, and the ...

 

Of course not. If history is worth learning, it's worth learning the whole history.