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Columbus Day Speeches
Mercedez Batson

Do You read magazines? Do you believe them? Did you know their false? They can be just as false as history book’s.Most Information in textbooks are true, but not all. Have you heard of Columbus day? Columbus day was based of a man named Christopher Columbus. If you have heard of him, You think he’s good, right? Well, you’ve probably never heard of the other side of the story. If you have, are you against him? This is about how you shouldn’t celebrate Columbus day. Did you know he treated the indigenous as obstacles? Did you know Christopher columbus and his crew sent thousands of peacefulness Taino to be sold in spain? More than half of them died on the way to spain. 60 years after christopher columbus landed, only a few hundred

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