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At 10/6/11 03:02 PM, Forums wrote: I usually get naked and take a big poo, smoosh it up into a sort of, a sort of horned ball, then I throw it really hard at my friend's face

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First, it's important to take into account the intentions of Christopher Columbus and his cronies decided to travel and explore foreign "exotic" lands. It appears that one of the reasons why his expedition was put into action was for personal profit. In the first chapter of Zinn's "A People's History of The United States", he states that Columbus's expedition was about finding supposed fields of gold and to bring back said gold to pay back for dividends that were loaned by the King and Queen. The expedition intentions were not to make peace or create healthy political, economic, or societal relations with other geographic regions. The Spanish seemed to have had little concern for the preservation Indigenous culture nor were they interested in learning about their way of life. Simply put, Columbus and his cronies were there to exploit the land, women, and children for their own capitalistic greedy desires. Since capitalist greediness knows absolutely no bound, this ultimately lead them to the conclusion and justification that it was all right to subjugate, exploit and eventually destroy an entire group of people for their own selfish gain.

Secondly, the Arawak's lifestyle and economic approach was vastly different from the Spaniards way of life. According to Columbus's own personal journal entries he claimed that the Arawak's are a very caring and sharing people. Columbus even observes at one point that he thought that Arawak's were ultimately naive in their ways of interaction with them and that just a few military guards could easily exploit the entire tribe of natives. Clearly, the capitalistic concept of ownership and possession played a huge influence in this conclusion. Without the concept of money, The Arawak's easily gave whatever they could to whomever in their tribe. It is likely that they were a sharing people because they came to the sound realization that the land they shared with others and whatever resources resided on earth really belonged to everyone and NOT a single entity. Unfortunately, again, Columbus and his cronies realized the potential of profit in exploiting the Arawak people and took advantage of their compassionate ways of being for their own egotistical lust for capital.

Again, I feel I must emphasize Columbus's desire for capital. When the first expedition failed to bring back significant amounts of gold Columbus and his cronies persuaded the King and Queen that the fields of gold were still to be found on these exotic lands and that there was a new potentiality of bringing back natives for slavery. The King and Queen were sold by his great financial fantasy of fields of gold and decided to promise him a second expedition but instead this time with "seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men." thus Columbo and his cronies set out to the Caribbean Islands once again in the search for gold and slaves, or in other words, for their own self-centered lust for capital and a footnote in history.

In order to appease the King and Queen's demands Columbus and crew decided to force the native into doing their work and made them find any gold that may have been residing on the land. Funfortunately, for all of the ingenious natives there were never any fields of gold; There were just "bits of dust garnered from the streams". Clearly the natives were to blame for this. The Spaniards maliciously attacked them when they came back emptied handed. They reportedly cut the natives hands off when they didn't return with the required amount of gold. Again, we see here that the Spaniard's maniacal hunger for shiny metals were too great for them to handle; They displaced their frustrations and repression on the indigenous when their plans failed to produce their desired outcome.

Word spread about the violence that Columbo and Cronies had ordered and eventually some tribes decided to take arms in an effort to combat the terrorists. Again, unfortunately for the natives, their primitive weapons were no match for the guns, steel, and horses that the more technologically advanced Spaniards had access to. Many of the Arawak's were killed in battle, tortured, hanged, and or burned to death. For those who had escaped this gruesome fate choose another disheartening end and took their own life.

Oh yeah, and the good percentage of the Arawak's that the Spaniards decided to bring back as slaves died on the way back to Europe due to malnutrition, murder, and the fact that Spaniards were quite literally "sick" people and spread novel infectious diseases that the Arawak's immune systems were not capable of handling. So in essence it appears that the genocide of the Arawak tribe was due to Columbus's selfish sense of greed for capital.

TLDR; Fuck Columbus

Columbus may have been a bad guy ,but he did give us a day off.