Who ever said that the history books were correct?  What makes us think that we can say beyond a shadow of a doubt what happened hundreds or thousands of years ago on this planet?  Even once we had the benefit of writing, most of the languages have been altered so much that it is sometimes impossible to detect what the author was actually trying to say.  Even stories written in plain English were not always accurate, we have no way of knowing if a person was telling the truth or if they were highly imaginative and enjoyed writing fiction in a believable way to entertain the people around them. 

There are so many stories that have been false and yet have made it into the history books, to the point that many historians have refused to truly examine other possibilities…and it’s starting to be noticed.  Especially the lie about Columbus “discovering” America.  I’ve never heard anything more ridiculous, as more and more proof of this inaccuracy is revealed, why is it that we are still teaching this story as if it was fact.  Why are we still celebrating a holiday in honor of this rapist and robber?  Especially when there is a lot of proof that is emerging to suggest if not prove that there were many Europeans as well as Asians here before Columbus even thought about making his famous voyage.

Why is it that people deny the facts that are set right in front of them?  Why is it that people don’t ever want to look for what could have been and just accept what they are told about the past?  The past is what makes us who we are, don’t we want to know what the true past of our country is?  I simply don’t understand why it’s so hard for some people to believe that we may have made a mistake about what happened on this planet hundreds of years before we were on it.