It is disgraceful that many, including President Donald Trump who plans to reinstate Columbus Day as a federal holiday, still consider Christopher Columbus to have been a hero. He was not.
In fact, the king and queen of Spain refused to invite him to the kingdom after his 1492 voyage to the Americas because of how evil he was during his financed expedition.
Columbus and his men raped, tortured and murdered the indigenous people in the Caribbean islands.
Also, he was lost during his voyage and ended up in a chain of islands. He actually thought he was in India. He never discovered anything.
The Columbus legend needs to be dismissed once and for all.
