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The Patrick Madrid Show

Christopher Columbus & Indigenous People

The Patrick Madrid Show

Relevant Radio

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8587 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Patrick dispels the modern myth that the indigenous cultures Christopher Columbus encountered in his explorations were an idyllic, slavery-free, racism-free, paradise.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's go to Vince waiting very patiently in San Diego.

0:02.5

Hello, Vince, and thank you.

0:03.6

Hey, good morning, Patrick.

0:05.0

Patrick, I'm 64 years old, and I have a 22-year-old son who's a college student.

0:11.2

We were talking the other day about Christopher Columbus.

0:14.2

Okay.

0:14.7

And as we were talking, it seems like we were talking about two different people.

0:19.9

Now, I was wondering, what can you tell me about Christopher Columbus

0:23.4

or any good books you could recommend?

0:25.8

Okay, sure.

0:27.8

Well, there is a very good article by Dinesh D'Souza that I retweeted on,

0:34.7

well, on Twitter, and that was a couple of days ago.

0:37.3

I can retweet it again, if you'd like, and that was a couple of days ago. I can retweet it again if you'd like.

0:39.7

And in it, he has footnoted several very helpful books and other articles and things.

0:46.0

So I would start with that. It's called the Sins of Christopher Columbus. And what he does is he

0:50.7

dispels many of the myths and outright lies that have been perpetrated

0:56.2

against, not just Christopher Columbus, but in this case, he takes up that issue. And at the end,

1:02.0

when you see in the footnotes, you'll be led to a series of other books. So this article appeared

1:06.1

years ago in First Things. I just retweeted it, so you'll find it. But a few quick things to remember.

1:13.4

One of the big things right now is that Christopher Columbus was all about slaves, and to some

1:19.6

extent he was. But here's the thing. I could speak for hours on this, but here's the thing.

1:25.2

So many young people, they just don't know actual

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