Latter Day Sinner

Today Americans (well US people anyway) are fighting over who’s heritage is more important. In one corner is the European colonizers that started with Columbus. In the other corner are the indigenous peoples of what would eventually be called the Americas. There were some Nordic settlement in North America long before Columbus but they didn’t try to take over the place the way the Spanish and English did. Columbus is a troublesome figure. On the one hand he opened up several continents to Europe. On the other hand people were already here and got pushed into the margins by Europeans. By today’s standards Columbus was cruel and authoritarian. But the world was much more generally that way 500 years ago. There were a lot more lords and slaves back then. So we fight over who gets to write the history books. The lords who colonized or the slaves that are only now just beginning to find the freedom this continent promised to it’s people.