To hear the Left tell it, Christopher Columbus single-handedly came to the new world to spread racism and disease.
But anyone with an ounce of historical knowledge knows that’s a complete rewrite of what happened seen through the lens of a purple-haired Gender Studies major. Columbus was a human with flaws, sure. But he wasn’t a supervillain. He was brave (remember, no GPS back then), adventurous, and wise. He was a man’s man.
Columbus. A man worth celebrating.
Michael Knowles put it best during a speech at California State University in 2021. When a professor at the college tried to repeat the lie that the land Columbus came upon was owned by the native tribes and should therefore revert to them, Knowles asked him to pinpoint which tribes should get the land.
The professor was unable to answer directly. Knowles laid out the contradiction in his reasoning, saying, “The…
