Carlin: Why do the Hispanics have a problem with Colombus? If it wasn't for him they wouldn't be here....

A lot of them might still be here, they just might not be Hispanics. In one of Vine Deloria's books (I think it was) I read an account of a Hispanic politician in New Mexico saying (in an effort to be "inclusive") "We have a Spanish father and an Indian mother" to which a Native American retorted, "Yeah, and in a situation like that you know who gets screwed" or words to that effect.

At first I thought maybe they had a problem with Italian Pride Day not because it was about Columbus, but because it excluded them (after all, he was sailing for Spain, not Italy — indeed in that era there was no Italy as a political unit.

Still hoping to find out what real history is. History that eats no quiche?

Liland
Real Live Esperantist