10-08-2011, 05:27 PM
Are you saying that you know they weren't?
Are you saying their relative removal from the planet and his chronicles of willingness to do so upon first meeting, in his own logs, aren't good enough? Is everything else that his logs have recorded that we CHOOSE to take verbatim only good enough if it contains what we WANT to teach little kids while they walk around with stupid hats? Does the fact that cannibalism within the Mayflower/Jamestown contingent wasn't discussed when we were in 3rd grade mean it didn't happen...?
How can you seriously even comment on this when your first response is... "so... they weren't from the Americas, huh?" -- and then you question the accuracy of Columbus' logs??
Far better to question your understanding of the history first.... then come back later.
Really.
Are you saying their relative removal from the planet and his chronicles of willingness to do so upon first meeting, in his own logs, aren't good enough? Is everything else that his logs have recorded that we CHOOSE to take verbatim only good enough if it contains what we WANT to teach little kids while they walk around with stupid hats? Does the fact that cannibalism within the Mayflower/Jamestown contingent wasn't discussed when we were in 3rd grade mean it didn't happen...?
How can you seriously even comment on this when your first response is... "so... they weren't from the Americas, huh?" -- and then you question the accuracy of Columbus' logs??
Far better to question your understanding of the history first.... then come back later.
Really.