Christopher Columbus: Hero Vs. The Hero

My body hangs over the edge, swaying with nervousness. One step, I look down, I can’t see the bottom. Two steps, my legs shake like when they came. One the edge now, the wind seems to push me, it’s cold, oh so cold. It whispers and sings in long ways; groaning and howling. For this may be giving up, my retaliation rises, but the winner is clear. They the killers, the ones that named you savages. They have spilled out our blood for us to become one with nature. They chained us to become properties and they have come in a mass wave to take the land we once praised. With one graceful motion I,m falling, my heartbeat rises louder. And louder and louder, the thing almost beats out of my chest. I see the ground, my breath dives my throat, then nothing. Imagine that. You feel so lost and terrified you take your own life with the swiftest motion, letting your existence become one with absence. Now imagine your killer, the one that drove you to do it is a praised hero with a day to his name and equal grounds with Martin Luther King Jr. it's already happened, Christopher Columbus, the praised hero.
The “hero” has done many things to not deserve such title.
First off, he and his men treated the Indians. The Indians helped them, and let them prosper on their land. And you would think that they would treat them with respect, hold them in honor and thanks but they didn't. They met their kindness with horror beyond belief, they killed roughly half their kind. They brought diseases and plague, they could not counter and they took the people that helped them and forced them into slavery. Stealing and forcing them to give even more than what they already had, they left them with nothing. The native people lucky to leave with their lives and the will to
live. Columbus is given credit for discoveries he never made. He has said to be the first sail over here, but that is far from the truth . when they arrived there were already natives living there and the Viking along with other true explorers had already been there before him. He is credited with proving that the earth was round, but In reality, everyone in that time knew of this fact. Plus his entire trip was a mistake, how can you call him a hero and a great explorer when he didn't even know how to travel properly Now some people would say that he founded the first American civilization, he brought a lot to America and he is the documented start of America, but he didn't do it by himself, he did it with other people's information, from the real explorers discoveries.does that really condone all of the crimes they committed, does it condone the way they treated the Indians, the way they stole everything they had then murdered them.You can stand with Columbus but be aware you're standing with a murderer, do you really want that? To put out it in a succinct way, you can choose chose to believe or not believe that Columbus deserves all his prise, but I think we should have a day to remember the horror the Indians had to endure, recognize the true explorers and the beginning adversities this country had to go through to stand and become what is it today. A remembrance and recognition day for those who deserve it but won't get that spotlight because Columbus undeservingly has taken it from them.