{"id":11776,"date":"2012-10-08T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2012-10-09T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:29:28","slug":"dear-columbus-a-letter-from-an-first-grade-elementary-school-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/10\/08\/dear-columbus-a-letter-from-an-first-grade-elementary-school-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Columbus &#8211; A Letter from a First Grade Elementary School Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Columbus-<\/p>\n<p>We are sorry that you are dead and we are writing you a little note. Please, Columbus be nice because other people don\u2019t want to be slaves. Please do not hurt other people because they can\u2019t find gold for you. \u00a0Also, share the gold and the spices you have stolen with poor people. Cutting off people\u2019s hands who can\u2019t find you gold isn\u2019t a nice thing to do. We are peacebuilders.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you would have been nice. The stories about you don\u2019t tell the truth. Please say you are sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>First Grade Class<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/NO-TRESPASSING.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11777\" title=\"NO-TRESPASSING\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/NO-TRESPASSING.png?resize=580%2C410&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children need to be taught the truth about Columbus&#8217; blood-and-gold-thirsty voyages and their impact on the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere and the people on the African continent.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>About.com &#8211; The Truth About Christopher\u00a0Columbus:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/latinamericanhistory.about.com\/od\/thevoyagesofcolumbus\/a\/09columbustruth.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Columbus: Hero or\u00a0Villain?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Huffington Post &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eric-kasum\/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Columbus- We are sorry that you are dead and we are writing you a little note. Please, Columbus be nice because other people don\u2019t want to be slaves. Please do not hurt other people because they can\u2019t find gold for you. \u00a0Also, share the gold and the spices you have stolen with poor people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1139,1231,2157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oppression","category-post-colonialism","category-post-columbian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-33W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}