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Christopher Columbus What!?


Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.

Right? Then of course had to commit mass genocide,

A hero in text, discussing his truth is practically taboo.

Columbus and his ‘explorers’, glorified like a God! His sins have me mortified!

To name a few, he forcefully took native american women to his bedside,

And used him and his diseases to send them to their graveside.

 

And they are buried in the land that we are built on.

And we will be buried in the land that our children will expand upon

And this cycle will go on and on,

Until somebody finally sheds light on all of the people that our founding fathers preyed upon.

 

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