Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think of no better example of the white supremacist than Christopher Columbus," Fardan said. "You all protest that stuff. Have a day of mourning. Do it right here at Harvard University...
Fardan, who is white, also bitterly lashed out Columbus Day and urged students to speak out against the holiday...
...Columbus used native guides to exploit other islanders in his explorations, Fardan said. The sociologist compared this practice to the role of Black leaders, such as General Colin Powell and Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, in the Bush administration...
...critical optic of this new "multicultural" perspective, American history as it was once written -- those often tedious treks from Christopher Columbus to Dwight Eisenhower -- leaves out too much, namely nearly everyone who was not a white male. Some adherents go further, questioning whether the Western ideas and ideals that gave birth to America discriminate against people from other traditions. A more radical school argues that those values are no more than the ethnic expression of "Eurocentric" culture and should be taught only as such...
ESSAY Charles Krauthammer urges us to hail Columbus...