Happy Genocide Day

Today is Columbus Day - when lots of Americans get a day off work to commemorate the founding of the "New World" even though it had already been found - and was settled for thousands of years before Columbus showed up. And it's also a day commemorating a psychopath who arrived in Hispaniola in 1492 and set out to rape, slaughter, and enslave thousands of indigenous people in a manic hunt for treasure.

Fifty years after Columbus landed in Hispaniola - the region's original 3 million people were completely wiped out.

Happy Genocide Day!

Thom Hartmann

He wasn't a psychopath. He just followed the general European consensus that they were superior in every way and that people of different ethnicities and faiths were nothing more than mongrels without a soul.