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Columbus Day (EP.68)
Summary
Q 1. Should we celebrate Columbus Day? A. Of course. The opening of the Americas to European countries was a monumental development. Q 2. Was Christopher Columbus intelligent, courageous, and dedicated to his beliefs and goals despite years of rejection? A. Yes. All three, and at levels that allowed him to play a pivotal role in history. Q 3. Was Columbus a deeply flawed man, who savaged the indigenous populations? A. Yes, he was deeply flawed. As was every great man or woman in history. Every last one.
Experts in various fields correctly say that we need to deal with people and communities in a holistic way. I agree; let’s start with people like Columbus, FDR, JFK, Edison and many others in exactly that way. Let’s not be dishonest and portray only one side of the men and women who have shaped our country and the world. Presenting only one side--it does not matter which one one--to further an agenda is wrong and qualifies people as truth-twisters. A term we used in the last podcast, Profiling.
Links and References
Tolerance
Offense in in the Eye of the Offended
Contact
Please do reach out with comments or questions. You can email me at [email protected], or connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
And you can subscribe to the podcast on your favorite device through Apple Podcasts, Google, or Stitcher.
Transcript
Q 1. Should we celebrate Columbus Day? A. Of course. The opening of the Americas to European countries was a monumental development. Q 2. Was Christopher Columbus intelligent, courageous, and dedicated to his beliefs and goals despite years of rejection? A. Yes. All three, and at levels that allowed him to play a pivotal role in history. Q 3. Was Columbus a deeply flawed man, who savaged the indigenous populations? A. Yes, he was deeply flawed. As was every great man or woman in history. Every last one.
Experts in various fields correctly say that we need to deal with people and communities in a holistic way. I agree; let’s start with people like Columbus, FDR, JFK, Edison and many others in exactly that way. Let’s not be dishonest and portray only one side of the men and women who have shaped our country and the world. Presenting only one side--it does not matter which one one--to further an agenda is wrong and qualifies people as truth-twisters. A term we used in the last podcast, Profiling.
Let’s jump right into the deep end of this pool by bringing up Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, born in Atlanta in 1929, is a genuine American hero. In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. And he helped to reshape how we think about and deal with race in our country, with worldwide reverberations. And he was a known plagiarist and a serial adulterer. That makes him human, and still very much a man well worth remembering and celebrating.
Thomas Edison, born in 1847, is known as the inventor of the light bulb. He also invented the phonograph and the motion picture along the way to being granted 1,093 patents. He founded one of America’s most successful companies, General Electric--GE. He was also a proponent of Direct Current, DC, as opposed to Alternating Current, AC. He fought vigorously, and often unfairly, to promote DC over AC. Had he won, the electric grid that in so many ways helped to build and supports the US would have been greatly delayed. And, yes, this flawed human deserves to be greatly honored for his many vital contributions.
Golda Meir, born in 1898, was the fourth prime minister of Israel. On her way to earning the unofficial title of “Iron Lady” well before Margaret Thatcher, the founding Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, called her “the best man in government.” She rallied her country after the horrific murders of Israeli...
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Q 1. Should we celebrate Columbus Day? A. Of course. The opening of the Americas to European countries was a monumental development. Q 2. Was Christopher Columbus intelligent, courageous, and dedicated to his beliefs and goals despite years of rejection? A. Yes. All three, and at levels that allowed him to play a pivotal role in history. Q 3. Was Columbus a deeply flawed man, who savaged the indigenous populations? A. Yes, he was deeply flawed. As was every great man or woman in history. Every last one.
Experts in various fields correctly say that we need to deal with people and communities in a holistic way. I agree; let’s start with people like Columbus, FDR, JFK, Edison and many others in exactly that way. Let’s not be dishonest and portray only one side of the men and women who have shaped our country and the world. Presenting only one side--it does not matter which one one--to further an agenda is wrong and qualifies people as truth-twisters. A term we used in the last podcast, Profiling.
Links and References
Tolerance
Offense in in the Eye of the Offended
Contact
Please do reach out with comments or questions. You can email me at [email protected], or connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
And you can subscribe to the podcast on your favorite device through Apple Podcasts, Google, or Stitcher.
Transcript
Q 1. Should we celebrate Columbus Day? A. Of course. The opening of the Americas to European countries was a monumental development. Q 2. Was Christopher Columbus intelligent, courageous, and dedicated to his beliefs and goals despite years of rejection? A. Yes. All three, and at levels that allowed him to play a pivotal role in history. Q 3. Was Columbus a deeply flawed man, who savaged the indigenous populations? A. Yes, he was deeply flawed. As was every great man or woman in history. Every last one.
Experts in various fields correctly say that we need to deal with people and communities in a holistic way. I agree; let’s start with people like Columbus, FDR, JFK, Edison and many others in exactly that way. Let’s not be dishonest and portray only one side of the men and women who have shaped our country and the world. Presenting only one side--it does not matter which one one--to further an agenda is wrong and qualifies people as truth-twisters. A term we used in the last podcast, Profiling.
Let’s jump right into the deep end of this pool by bringing up Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King, born in Atlanta in 1929, is a genuine American hero. In 1964, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. And he helped to reshape how we think about and deal with race in our country, with worldwide reverberations. And he was a known plagiarist and a serial adulterer. That makes him human, and still very much a man well worth remembering and celebrating.
Thomas Edison, born in 1847, is known as the inventor of the light bulb. He also invented the phonograph and the motion picture along the way to being granted 1,093 patents. He founded one of America’s most successful companies, General Electric--GE. He was also a proponent of Direct Current, DC, as opposed to Alternating Current, AC. He fought vigorously, and often unfairly, to promote DC over AC. Had he won, the electric grid that in so many ways helped to build and supports the US would have been greatly delayed. And, yes, this flawed human deserves to be greatly honored for his many vital contributions.
Golda Meir, born in 1898, was the fourth prime minister of Israel. On her way to earning the unofficial title of “Iron Lady” well before Margaret Thatcher, the founding Israeli prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, called her “the best man in government.” She rallied her country after the horrific murders of Israeli...