Should We Honor Christopher Columbus?

"I find it so interesting how we celebrated this guy so much. Like all of us were around the same age," he says. "It was like, this was a major focus of elementary school." He asks: How do you even teach history to six-year-olds? It seems like all of a sudden we woke up one day and these historians were like, Actually we've uncovered that he was a rapist and a terrible person?"

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