And in a letter he wrote to one of his Spanish patrons, Columbus said:

They [Native Americans] are simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves.

But then, in the midst of all this, in his journal, Columbus writes:

They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want.

Yes, this is how Columbus saw the Indians- not as hospitable hosts, but as “servants”, to “do whatever we want.”

And what did Columbus want? This is not hard to determine. In the first two weeks of his journal entries, there is one word that recurrs seventy-five times: GOLD

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I urge you all to read the rest of this passage, along with his other works. This is not an attack on any specific group of people, for nobody is responsible for the actions of that man. Nor am I saying that we shouldn’t indulge in a day off or have fun with friends on Columbus Day. I just want people to know what the man was truly about, and generally take more initiative to find truth.