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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
Great points, Sailin. It's sad that some cannot recognize that's it's possible for Columbus to have been a great explorer and also for Native Americans to have been completed screwed. I think most of us on the forum are really lucky that Columbus came here, but we can still regret a lot of the stuff many of our ancestors did.
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That is exactly how to learn from history. There is good and bad (sometimes the bad was an acceptable practice in its time) and one event can certainly have both. Respect the context it came from and learn from the past not erase the past