EDITOR, The Tribune.
So very nearly the 12 plus ft high statue of Columbus was nearly knocked off its plinth…been there mind you 200 plus years and till last week no one really bothered him... possibly one of the most photographed locations other than the Nassau Water Tower.
Guys let’s get real… what if… Columbus had not persuaded the King of Spain to fund the voyage to the new world — this side of the Atlantic hoping to find a quick route to Asia — what if that did not happen?
You know probably at least for a little while after 1492 till another explorer took on the same challenge the islands known as The Bahamas would have remained quiet... serene...occupied by native Indians minding their own business.
Memoirs of Columbus indicate that morning when his look-out shouted ‘land-ahoy’ his crew were very close to mutiny so he had to have been very happy seeing Watlings or San Sal... great pity no archaeologist has proven which island he actually did land on.
So if Columbus had not discovered these fair islands some other agent of a Monarch of Europe probably would have... we might have ended up Italian — French — German or even belonging to the US native Indian tribes... Seminoles were in Andros...Taino’s in Freeport.
Would the great migration of human slaves from Africa have occurred? Excellent point there — if not all of us who claim descendants and inheritors would never have seen this new land on the edge of the world that Columbus found. Some other inhabitants probably would be here. Slavery in the continent of Africa was started by the native tribes of Africa till the Europeans came along.
I think reading history Columbus is blamed for the enslavery of the native Indians of the Bahamas and basically migrating them to work in the gold and mineral mines.... Think you better check it was the Conquistadores, not Columbus.
Let’s read-study and blame the right people, but editor for sure you can’t change history.
S K ROLLE
Nassau,
October 13, 2021.
Comments
joeblow 2 years, 6 months ago
... people who talk about slavery are usually ignorant and use it as a crutch to justify their racist sentiments under the guise of antiracism. All major people groups on the planet have practiced slavery in some form over the millennia. Blacks were not the only people to be enslaved, they were just the most recent to be freed from it. Slavery was never about race, but economics. In fact many black Americans owned and bred slaves! Ain't nobody holding black people back but themselves!
Its time to put this race nonsense to rest once and for all and only a balanced, informed view of history can do that!
moncurcool 2 years, 6 months ago
How do you discover something that already exists?
GodSpeed 2 years, 6 months ago
In order for something to be discovered it has to exist, no? They say they discovered it because they were speaking from their perspective as Europeans.
happyfly 2 years, 6 months ago
Well said Mr Rolle. Too many Bahamians incorrectly believe that their descendants were indigenous to these islands........... but with regard to changing history........alas.....historical facts seem to be subject to mouse click these days
GodSpeed 2 years, 6 months ago
Columbus was still a scumbag though, but really it shouldn't even matter. These are characters from what is basically ancient history at this point. People shouldn't be getting emotional over something so old.
The reality is this toppling of the statues is part of the degenerate "liberal" culture of America seeping into the Bahamas. The nut who attacked the statue was being bombarded with images of American leftists and useful idiots rioting in the streets for an entire year while the media told him it was good to topple statues, so into action he goes.
In America Marxism has been spreading like a rot since the 1960s, especially over their institutions of higher learning that are now filled with Socialists and Communists. In order to bring in a Marxist society you must attack the history of the country, which gives a nation its identity, it's a part of the process of Marxist subversion. The same thing happened in Russia and Mainland China, where the Marxists destroyed many artifacts from the past before ushering in Socialism, the same is happening in the US today.
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