Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Columbus Day Is Worth Fighting For" video.

A lot of other Natives worked with Cortez against the Aztec. They were brutal and used smaller tribes for blood sacrifices.
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I have. Yes the Vikings did, but they didn't settle it, come back, or tell anyone else about it. There was another small group that attempted to settle it and they didn't spread and didn't last. That's the difference. Before Columbus, only Natives had managed to spread across the land and settle it. Had there been no settlements and expansion or Columbus didn't tell anyone and no one else ever came, he would be just as irrelevant as the Vikings.
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I'm not Indian either because I'm not from India. I am, however, Native to the Americas because we've been in here for tens of thousands of years. The oldest discovered Native settlement found in South America dates back to over 20,000 years. Native means indigenous. Both are scientific terms used to describe species with specific DNA found only in that area. Natives were separated from other humans long enough to develop a distinct DNA. That takes over 7000 years to develop naturally. Until you have been separated from other members of your species for that amount time to develop a unique DNA, you are not native. Edit: I happen to be from the group that crossed the land bridge called the Algonquin. We settled what is now Alaska, Canada, northern US, and the Eastern seaboard. A recent archeological discovery in Alaska found 2 buried children dating back 7000 years that have the distinct DNA markers of today's Algonquin. Helping to pinpoint more accurately how long we have actually been here. South America is estimated at around 30,000 years ago which isn't much different than when modern humans spread into other parts of the world.
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Yes it is. They cited the reason for the change was because it's now a global market. It was changed to get China to allow the upcoming Superman movie to be allowed in China. It's an attempt to remove anything from our Superheroes that represents the good of America.
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He landed on what's considered the North American continent so yes he did. He's playing semantics by using "America" as in the country. Columbus is not only celebrated in the US.
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@MichaelMiller-xj1ti Our religion was illegal until 1990 off the reservations. Many tribes don't own their reservations and can be relocated at anytime. Obama tried to do that to access minerals on Native land so the government could keep the money from the company instead of giving it to them. The only thing the government provides is education and some medical just like it does every citizen. We are the poorest race with the highest suicide rate. You are trying to compare the majority to the minority. To have a casino, we must live close to a larger city and very few do. I'd seriously suggest educating yourself on us. We are independent of states in matters of sovereignty, but not the federal government. We aren't little countries, we're tiny states within other states kind of.
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Um my people did not. Powhatan (as they are called by the English) allowed them to stay and believed they would go away after they learned how to care for themselves. There was a language barrier and the colonists took our hospitality as an invitation to stay. They overstayed their welcome and we attacked them. We never thought they were gods. Edit: Plus the first English settlement, Roanoke, was destroyed by Natives. They wouldn't do that to gods.
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You are trying to claim he was trying to prove the world was round? How old are you? He was looking for a trade route to what is modern day China for spices. Vikings didn't stay and didn't tell anyone else about it. That's as valid as those claiming Natives discovered it because we were here first. We came not just by the land bridge either. There were 3 separate migrations. That one and 2 more by boat into South America. Vespucci arrived 5 years after Columbus and discovered South America. Columbus landed on the North American continent. They both discovered new continents. Naming both continents after him is praise enough. If we lived in South America, you'd have a better argument.
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What does that have to do with anything Sean said? He didn't claim the opposite of anything you said. I don't know that I'd say it was more brutal than say Roman slavery. Their slaves were killed for entertainment and forced to work in underground mines that the air and runoff killed them within 6 months to a year. Pretty sure that's part of the western world. Also slavery in the Caribbean was identical to in the US and it was a British colony as well. I'm noticing a trend that you seem to have missed.
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He landed around Cuba which is considered part of the North American continent.
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People wanting Columbus Day to become Native Day and a lot of these comments makes me see just how terrible our education system has become. We already have a National Day for Natives. It's the day after Thanksgiving and we've had it since 2008. November is Native American history month. So these idiots want to give us 2 national holidays? So now does every other minority get 2 national holidays too?
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What? Since when does defending your country from an invasion make you the bad guy? Germany used the assasination to try to attack and split the Russia-France alliance and expand. They knew it would cause a major war and did it anyway. How does that make France the bad guy? Plus, he didn't say anything about the morality of the war it's self, but that the way France taught the next generation about defending their country directly led to demoralization that allowed Germany, who invaded again, to defeat them quickly. It's not like this was a peaceful region either. A newly unified Germany felt it was powerful enough to take over France due to their victory in the Franco Prussian War just a few years earlier. Maybe instead of just dismissing it as a war that got out of control started due to an assassination, understand there was a lot more before that that created the issue. The assassination was just an opportunity for Germany to prove itself on the world stage. Edit: The causes of both WWI and WWII were extremely similar. Just financial strain was added onto Germany's reason for starting the next one.
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He was looking for an alternate route to India. He instead discovered a new land that created riches far greater than a new trade route ever could. Nobody knew these land masses even existed. They were on no maps. He did something everyone else was too afraid to do. That's like saying yeah Newton discovered gravity, but it was just because an apple hit him on the head so it's no big deal. Ignoring that because of that we now have airplanes and can fly to space. It was the building block of much greater things.
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@salvatoremazzone6912 That's because when the US government expanded water and electricity to rural areas in the 50s, it didn't include Native lands. In order for isolated reservations to get those comforts they have to pay the nearest city, water company, and electric company to run them out to them which is expensive.
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So it's Columbus's fault that the English did bad things? Columbus never traveled back to the New World so how did he start the slave trade, which was already going on and had been? He never worked for England. It started in the middle of the 15th century, before 1492, by Portugal. He did learn sailing on Portuguese merchant vessels (as many did because they were considered the best), but that hardly makes him responsible for the slave trade.
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