When Christopher, Greek for “Christ bringer,” Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, he carried the most primitive and savage worldview to the people who discovered this lost sailor off their shores.
My conquistador forefathers, who joined him, raped the Indigenous women and threw their babies to the dogs. They tested their machismo strength by lopping off men’s limbs with a single whack. The friar Bartolomé de las Casas documented these horrors.
Later, as illegal immigrants from England, France and the Netherlands settled in the lands north of where the Spaniards invaded, they developed what came to be known as the Black Legend.
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