Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

Please accept my apology.

I sincerely did not mean any hurt or insult.

I was merely wondering why such a strong
stance - against historical evidence pertaining
to our indigenous people.

Thank you for explaining.

I'm not sure that I fully understand why you won't
accept what people like Prof.John Maynard and other
reputable researchers find. However, that is your business.
I shall leave it there.

When I was child in the United State Columbus Day, October 12, was a big holiday. There used to be bands, celebrations, speeches by politicians, etc. Columbus discovered America. I don’t remember any voices of dissent when I was a child.

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/columbus-day is a website telling about Columbus Day, and the controversies surrounding it.

“Columbus Day celebrations are controversial because the settlement of Europeans in the Americas led to the deaths of a very large proportion of the native people. It has been argued that this was a direct result of Columbus' actions. It is clear that the arrival of the European settlers led to the demise of a large proportion of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It has also been argued that Columbus should not be honored for discovering North America, as he only went as far as some islands in the Caribbean and never got as far as mainland America.”

On the website it does not tell about the controversies among different ethnic groups of whites regarding the discovery. Columbus didn’t discover the Americas. The people already here had discovered it first. He wasn’t even the first European to visit the Americas. The Romans and the Vikings also made voyages to what are now the Americas.

https://www.history.com/news/did-an-irish-monk-discover-america tells about St. Brendan, an Irish monk, who may have come to the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Musmanno tells about the Italian-American judge who denied that the Vikings got to the Americas first.

https://novoscriptorium.com/2018/04/18/egyptian-greek-phoenician-and-hebrew-origins-of-cherokee/ claims that DNA testing of the Cherokee Indians shows that possibly the Cherokees had Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician and Hebrew ancestors before Columbus.

The controversies surrounding Columbus Day have resulted in Columbus Day and Columbus being soft pedalled.

The same may happen to Captain Cook.

a top female Victorian Health official equates Cook's landing with the arrival of the Coronavirus. Really shows the ignorance and ugliness of the privileged class who crap on everyone who gave them such an easy life. Sickening really.

This reminds of an incident about 35 years ago at a BBQ in North Qld. We were a mixed mob of several ethnicities & we all worked for the same outfit.
One bloke asked another 'who was the first bloke to walk across the Nullarbor ?' Without hesitation, a mixed race Indigenous replied "An Aboriginal". I said that I thought it was John Eyre & he named the Nullarbor. To which the other replied that the Aboriginals had always called it Nullarbor. When I asked him why the Aboriginal would have walked a thousand miles across the continent & that Nullarbour was Latin for no trees he got all agro told me no to talk about things I knew nothing about !!

Hi Individual,

That first person to walk across the Nullarbor was probably a farmer and he was checking his paddock before he planted his kangaroo grass.

Make it up as you go :)

Joe

If recognising a great Navigator goes up some peoples' nose, they can alway celebrate the advent of inventing history on the run !