4.7: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
We need to stop celebrating Columbus Day — immediately.
The story that we learned about Christopher Columbus could not be further from the truth. He was a colonizer, enslaver, and sex trafficker who committed genocide against Indigenous Peoples. Don’t believe me? Listen in and decide for yourself.
By celebrating Columbus Day, our country has erased the history of Native Americans, and now is the time to give it back by celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
- Common myths about Christopher Columbus
- The 3 reasons why Columbus’ crusade was different from others who had traveled to the Americas
- What happened once Columbus arrived
- The origins of Columbus Day in the United States
- Ideas about what we should do in response to this violent history
Race Talk Roadmap
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Ally Elementary
Parents have been asking for a practical, interactive way to implement the anti-racist strategies that I lay out in the First Name Basis Podcast. So this October we are launching “Ally Elementary: Anti-Racist Education For Families."
During this five-week program parents will work together with their children to create a culture of anti-racism in their home, and I will be there to guide them every step of the way. We will use hands-on activities to teach our children about everything from the untold story of how race was created to how they can disrupt racism in their everyday lives. I am so excited to watch the families in our community make a meaningful transformation and improve their communities through anti-racist action.
Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced In The Episode
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen (affiliate link)
How Columbus Sailed into U.S. History, Thanks to Italians
Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, But Most Have Never Heard of the Taino People
Christopher Columbus and the Doctrine of Discovery
Resource Guide: Abolish Columbus Day: Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 4, Episode 7, the untold story of Christopher Columbus. |
| 0:14.8 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:23.0 | First name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a change maker in your community. |
| 0:31.0 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects our values of |
| 0:39.1 | inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be |
| 0:47.0 | on this journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. Indigenous People's Day is coming up very soon, |
| 0:59.8 | and so I thought that it was probably time for us to re-air this episode, the untold story of Christopher Columbus. |
| 1:08.4 | I put it out last year, and so many of you said that you learned so much. |
| 1:13.3 | And the interesting thing to me is that whenever I listen to one of the episodes again, |
| 1:18.3 | even though I'm the one who made it, I feel like I always hear something new that maybe I didn't |
| 1:24.5 | pick up on the first time or maybe I didn't focus on the first time. |
| 1:33.0 | So this is a replay episode and I hope you'll listen because even if you've heard it before, |
| 1:38.9 | there's so much important history that we need to have at the front of our minds as we go into these conversations about why we don't celebrate Columbus Day. |
| 1:43.5 | One of my goals this year is to learn more about |
| 1:47.3 | Indigenous People's Day. I feel like I have a really good grasp of why we celebrate Indigenous |
| 1:52.3 | People's Day instead of Columbus Day, but I want to learn more of the history, and I want to |
| 1:56.9 | learn more of what it looks like to participate respectfully and to honor the indigenous |
| 2:01.8 | peoples in my area. I just feel like I have so much work to do on myself. And I felt like this would |
| 2:08.4 | be a great opportunity for us to reground ourselves and remembering why we are letting go of |
| 2:13.7 | Columbus Day and embracing Indigenous People's Day instead. So if you want to join me in that |
| 2:19.5 | challenge, I would definitely encourage you to start thinking about what is Indigenous People's Day |
| 2:24.6 | and why do we celebrate? Hopefully next year at this time I can make a whole episode about what I've |
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