Christopher Columbus: Cruel Or Necessary?

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Some people think that Christopher Columbus was a great man, well not me, not this piece. Columbus was a cruel,and harsh man. He was violent, and mean. Yet everyone loved him.This is why Columbus Day should not be celebrated. He was unjust, and unfair for no reason. This is why Columbus Day is useless and has no meaning. Columbus was a man who came from England. He judged people by the color of their skin, or where they came from. He had native americans killed for their looks. They did nothing to him. Columbus even started an anti-indian army (yikes!). In paragraph fifteen of the article it says, “ Of course giving workers the day off does not make up for the centuries of discrimination, enslavement, and government, approved the
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