Over the last forty or fifty years, numerous groups or organizations have disparaged celebrations of Columbus Day with growing contempt because of the mass genocide attributed to Columbus when he encountered the Native Americans in the Caribbean. It seems that the pendulum of political correctness has swung far to the left and away from the popularity the Genovese explorer previously enjoyed. Much of this has to do with who writes his story.

Certainly, Columbus receives much less respect today as Progressive revisionist historians attempt to paint Columbus as the poster boy for all the evil that befell the Native Americans in the "New World." Recent American Columbus Day celebrations have been stifled in their importance, and have been tainted by the lingering fallout of animosity and bitterness leftover from the tragic clash of cultures between Western European and Native American peoples.

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