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...should start discussing the reasons for Columbus' trip to America. He was not on a noble excursion to search for new lands and different peoples. In Europe, it was the period of expansion. The Pope had just divided the world between the Spanish and Portuguese. Columbus was looking for a quick way to the Indies that would make the monarchs of Spain and himself very rich...
...Columbus didn't look to the Indians as equal trading partners but a people who could be used to send gold and other valuables back to the Spanish treasury. This is why he immediately put the native populations to work. Columbus and his men mistreated the native population to the point that the Spanish government had to appoint a guardian of the Indians, a priest named Bartolome de las Casas...
...decimation come to a such a point that in 1511, de las Casas approached the king to request that he allow Africans to be brought into America for the sole purpose of work. This act set the precedent for the enslavement of African peoples throughout America. So Columbus' "discovery" led to the exploitation of the native population to the point that people from Africa were taken to fulfill the greed of the Europeans...
Therefore, Columbus' "discovery" of the Americas was, at best, a lucky mistake, and at worst, the beginning of the racial inequality that persists today in modern manifestations of racism in American society...
...idea that many people have of the discovery of America as a man finding new land is for the most part dreadfully inaccurate. We strive to inform people of the true ramifications of Columbus' discovery. The Minority Student Alliance stands together to observe the deaths of those exploited and killed by the coming of Columbus and to voice different perspectives of the effects of Columbus' "discovery" of America...