Greedy Columbus

To The Editor:

In reading a recent letter in The Fayette County Record about the comments about Christopher Columbus, I felt they were right on the money. Some things were left out concerning Columbus and future explorers to the New World. I guess if you want to call someone an explorer whose only mission was to gain wealth for their financial backers then I guess you can call them explorers.

However, a lot of the socalled indigenous inhabitants were also known to have wars and take captives who in-turn would become slaves. Some of the captives would be used in human sacrifices to please their own gods.

I called them so-called indigenous because popular belief is that the New World was populated by the ancestors who crossed the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. So the term indigenous is something tenuous.

Whatever a person believes, one thing is certain and that is whatever happened in the past cannot be changed with words today. We can only modify our behavior and hope we do the right things so that we can be proud of our actions.

Promoting Christopher Columbus by giving him a day of celebration is something silly as it celebrates greed on his part and others who came after in search of riches.

Frank Chlumsky Muldoon

Muldoon