Let’s Celebrate European America on Columbus Day
In many ways, Columbus Day symbolizes the European contribution to the world. It marks the advent of Western Civilization in the New World, the subsequent flowering of the United States of America and all of the wonders and blessings which that bestowed.
Of late, various groups have tried to hijack Columbus Day for their own ends. In some places, Columbus has been dismissed as a imperialist, while in others he has taken on “Hispanic” status. In reality he was neither, but actually a great European hero whose bravery and foresight has come to symbolize all that is great about Europe’s contribution the world.
Born in Genoa, northwestern Italy, in 1451, Columbus led four voyages of exploration across the Atlantic Ocean in what were relatively tiny vessels (the Santa Maria’s length was only 75 feet with a beam width of 25 feet) and established settlements on the island of settlement in Hispaniola, today better known as the island which contains the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The courage which such an undertaking required is breathtaking, and almost unimaginable for us who live in a world of aircraft and motor travel. It took over three months of sailing on the open sea without land in sight, to reach Hispaniola, following a route which had not been mapped out, to a destination that no one had been to before.
Not even the mighty Romans had dared sail across the Atlantic Ocean, and although Vikings had briefly settled in the far north of the continent 500 years before Columbus, knowledge of that had been lost in the mists of time.
Columbus’s expedition was truly a step off the edge of the world into the unknown. Bravery of that sort has rarely been shown again, and then only by men of the same race.
It is true that evils such as slavery followed the exploration of the New World. Yet there is little point in picking on the sins of a few to cast aspersions on the achievements of many.
The contributions which Europeans brought to the Americas have shaped the very face of all people across the world, for the better.
In the moral codes, system of government, and notions of equality, the development of America came to symbolize the freedom to which all rational people aspire.
The settlement started by Columbus blossomed into the greatest system of government ever seen on earth, driven by the thoughts of Founding Fathers so wise that their joint presence at that junction in history is so remarkable as to be seen as providential.
Their ideals and work, summarised in the American Constitution, have been held up worldwide as the example to follow.
Even though this document has been corrupted by evil traitors of late, in its purest form it still represents one of the pinnacles of Western thought and political philosophy.
It is not, however, only on the moral and philosophical level that Columbus’s tiny settlement ending up leading the world. In fact, the European American technological contribution to civilization is so vast that it is almost impossible to summarize.
Many of the most recognizable everyday items originate with our people.
The first anti-pollution devices (Benjamin Franklin); the first steamboat (John Fitch); the cotton gin (Eli Whitney); the first submarine (David Bushnell); the first valve for engines (George Henry Corliss); the first food conservation technology (Gail Borden); the screw propeller for ships (John Ericsson); vulcanized rubber (Charles Goodyear); the telegraph (Elisha Gray); the frequency modulation (FM) radio broadcasting system (Edwin Howard Armstrong); the first mass useable camera (George Eastman); the light bulb, the phonograph, the motion picture projector (Thomas Alva Edison); the radio compass, hydraulic brakes and aircraft landing gear (Sherman Mills Fairchild); the sewing machine (Elias Howe); the electric starter, the cash register, high octane fuel and the first engine powered electricity generator (Charles Franklin Kettering); the elevator (Graves Otis); the electric-arc light, the gyrocompass and the gyropilot (Elmer Ambrose Sperry); photocopying (Chester F. Carlson); the telephone and the aileron (Alexander Graham Bell).
The list is endless, and could go on for pages. It could include space flight, computer technology, the aviation industry, nuclear power, and the mass production lines of modern industry. Our nation’s innovation and ideals have shaped the destiny of almost everyone on earth.
Columbus Day should therefore be a day upon which European Americans can celebrate their heritage, their peoples’ achievements and contributions to not only our nation, but the world.
Let the critics stand aside: We are the men and women of the West, and we are proud of who we are and what we have achieved — and, more importantly, we intend to keep the European nature of our nation.
Category: Establishment News
Hero.
While Christopher Columbus did not "discover" the new world (Vikings and Chinese explorers found it centuries before) he did embark on a great journey nonetheless, and opened the way for the European exploration of North America. He did this at great personal risk and hardship, and is quite deserving of the holiday that bears his name. Let's remember him, and his many close contemporaries, who explored a relatively unknown, and often hostile world at great personal danger.
Markus,
to top that you should look up Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II expedition.
A personal and tiny tribute to the European men of wood and iron:
It all began with three, small caravels
Carrying sailors with crosses likely in hand.
With faith in the Trinity and eagle eyes about,
A shore was recorded and set for the Blessing.
The Western sun was finally touched
By the inbound caravels of an inquiring Crown.
It's always been interesting to me that liberals will whole heartedly agree that if aliens came down from space and looked around Earth, they would see us as brutal, and backwards. And yet they hate Europeans that used advanced math to navigate huge vessels across oceans, that went on to discover people in loin clothes, throwing sticks at animals on every shore they landed. Of course Europeans should be honored, we beat the entire world in every crucial advancement necessary for first world civilization, and we shared it, often times at our own expense with people that would have never left the cave, had we not conquered the planet.
Anita, Robert, I second that!
As an American of Italian ancestry, I say God bless Christopher Columbus!
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
~Christopher Columbus
Never has a more courageous man lived and his name should be honored for perpetuity.