BakerAnalysis2

I believe that Christopher Columbus should not be considered as a hero. Columbus made his name famous through the torment, pain and triumph of people who were not as industrialized. The fact that Columbus was the man acclaimed for finding the New World may make him important to our society but should not turn him into a hero. I will be using articles from the course such as Howard Zinn’s “A people’s History of the United States”, and Loewen’s book “Lies My Teacher Told Me”. I will be using Zinn’s ideas to explain some of the misunderstandings most of our society has about Columbus including beliefs that the Indians were treated fairly and not taken advantage of. I will be using Loewen’s book to show that many of the ideas our society is taught when young is taught through “white eyes” and that many ideas are misconstrued even in textbooks. I will use the evidence that Columbus forced many Indians into slavery to repay his debt to Europe. I will show that even though Columbus is credited with the finding of the New World even though he was not the one who first spotted it. The fact that Columbus discovered the New World is just belligerent on the very principle that it was already inhabited. The ways most schools and textbooks teach early “American” history through the eyes of white people and try to explain how what was done was ethically right is also evidence I will be using to prove my point.