On his Monday special edition of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec spoke with The Post Millennial Editor-in-Chief Libby Emmons about why it's important to celebrate Columbus Day.
"Tonight, we're going to tell the truth about Christopher Columbus, a man who's been attacked, defiled, reviled. Statues toppled across the United States, Italian Americans in South Philly and other cities, fighting to defend those statues, defend their heritage," Posobiec said, adding later "You take away Christopher Columbus and there is no America. Period. End of story. You take away Christopher Columbus, the thread to the Founding Fathers does not exist."
"That's exactly what they want," Posobiec added, noting the deliberate motivation of many elites in power, leftists, and cultural Marxists.
"They want us to hate ourselves and they want us to hate our nation," Emmons added. "But they target Columbus because he was a white man who took it upon himself to sail across the sea in an attempt to spread Christianity and find a way for Europe to trade with the Far East without having to cross the Middle East which was rather treacherous since the Islamic groups there were trying to invade Europe and kill everyone."
Emmons noted that the imperialist and colonialist expansion of Islam after the seventh century resulted in both the death of over a billion, and led to the oppression of the Ottoman empire in the time of Columbus.
"At this point in time, it was the caliphate, the caliphate and the Ottomans have now basically swept all of the Middle East," Posobiec added.
Emmons then explained how Columbus, an Italian, did not sail for his native country but for the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, whose marriage unified Spain.
Part of Columbus' mission was to find gold to finance a crusade to liberate the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem which had fallen to the oppressive caliphate.
The two continued to discuss the acumen and grit necessary to navigate the treachery of the high seas before addressing Columbus' current controversial status.
"What about the cutting off of hands? The slavery? The horrifying acts?" Posobiec asks before saying that virtually all of those accounts can be attributed to, Francisco de Bobadilla, a rival of Columbus'.
Beyond those dubious initial accounts Posobiec and Emmons addressed the accusations of genocide with Posobiec first joking about the myth of the Native American Rousseauian Utopia
"They say the Native Americans, both in North and South America, were just frolicking and living freely with nature. We've all seen Pocahontas. Is that really what it was like in the old world before the arrival of the white man?" Emmons responded, "No, you will be shocked to learn that the ancient indigenous people were very much human beings, just like the rest of us; prey to all kinds of bad ideas."
Emmons noted how the indigenous Americans had pervasive slavery, noting Taino people in particular. The both then outlined how the tribes in the Americas "engaged in intensive barbarism, murderers, child sacrifices, eating babies, all of these kinds of things" and that most of the cultures were survival of the fittest.
