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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...
...Columbus was part of all this. He would supply the Spanish Pope with information that led to the partition of the New World into Spanish and Portuguese spheres in 1493. He was with his monarchs at Granada to celebrate the Moorish victory, and he saw the last Jews depart from Seville harbors the day before he set out on his first journey west. He viewed this concatenation of events as a sign of the world's fulfillment, and predicted that the gold he brought back would finance an ultimate Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land...
...Columbus honored in Chicago bore little resemblance to the medieval wizard of Spain's inquisitorial empire. That ancient mariner was now conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King James Bible to the Philippines, and President McKinley said he would make the island inhabitants good Christians. For the Chicago fair, sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of American icons like the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, fashioned a 14-ft. statue of Columbus driving an imperial chariot...