This Day In Latino History: Pestilence, Genocide and Exploitation
12 October 2009, 1:15 PM. By Cindy Casares
It’s Columbus Day and/or Día De La Raza, depending on who you are. The happiest day of the year. For bitching about the man! On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus, a.k.a. Cristóbal Colón, a.k.a. Cristoforo Colombo, of Genoa, Italy, landed on an island in the Bahamas. He landed there after sailing west from the Spanish crown in an attempt to prove that the earth is not flat. He was aiming to find a new spice route to China or the East Indies, but succeeded instead in discovering a group of people and a land mass that Europeans had heretofore been ignorant of–they called it The New World. But they were so last season. From there, all the trouble started. Or did it?
Sure the Europeans brought with them all form of pestilence, genocide and exploitation, but there were also meat pies. You call them empanadas. Yes, those came from Europe, Guanababies. Don’t be sad. Rejoice. For even if you’re dad is a deadbeat, he’s still the 50% of the reason you’re here. Such is the legacy of Latin America. Other fun things we got from the Europeans:
Russell Brand
“Stairway To Heaven”
Ikea
Churros
Cheese
See, it’s not all bad. And besides, we were all fucking each other over on this side of the planet before they got here. So, yeah, Columbus was a tool, but then, who wasn’t?
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So how many white guys do we need to fuck & dump to even things out?
If it’s not more than five, I’ve got you guys covered.
Why are the Native Americans in the cartoon speaking Spanish?
Because the cartoon appeared in a Spanish-language publication? Would you have asked about it if they were speaking English?
I see now. Yes, of course I would have questioned it if it were in English. What do you take me for? Oh, don’t answer.
I just figured you were reading into it because it’s in Spanish and this is a Latino site and you thought we were saying the Natives already spoke Spanish.
No such assumptions. I know you’re smarter than that.