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Nicole Lukasik
Mrs.Lapaix
Language Arts
7 February 2017
Many people wouldn't think twice about celebrating a criminal, yet Americans still
do. Christopher Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday of every October in
the United States. However, recently, it has sparkle many debates due to the fact that
people are uncovering trouble truths about his life, such as that he was a rapist,
murderer, and slave trader. Due to the fact that Christopher Columbus was a criminal,
There are many reasons why not to celebrate Christopher Columbus Day for
example Columbus was a rapist. Him and his people rapped many others even childern.
Instead of celebrating a man who raped and murdered all over the Caribbean,
Americans should be celebrating a man who helped or saved the Natives rather than
killing them. Columbus not only raped Natives he tortured them and basically wiped all
Shockingly Columbus not only tortured Natives he also supervised the selling of
the native girls into sexual slavery. There was also trade, were children would be sent to
a place to be sold for sex. Thats crazy!! Furthermore, there were stories of his men who
were chained together by the necks. This was all a major problem, leading to my final
reasoning.
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Columbus and his stared international slave trade. He enslaved Natives and
killed anyone who resisted, leading to over more than 50,000 Natives committing
suicide to avoid being enslaved. By 1555 there was zero full-blood Natives left. Once
On the other hand Christopher Columbus did expose the United States to many
other people around the world. Which lead to a totally new population of people to grow
and live in United States. Even if he exposed the United States to outsiders he still was
the reasoning for the population of Natives to die and also is the reason for starting
Do you still think Columbus Day should still be celebrated? With all my the
reasonings that were stated previously many may believe that Christopher Columbus
Day should not be celebrated. Columbus has done so much harm to the Natives he
raped and murdered many, sold people for sex and him and his people started
international slave trade. There many more reasons to say why not to celebrate this
day, but those are some reasonings and explanations why not to.