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Opinion: Why I Don't Celebrate the Columbus Day Lie

“In fourteen hundred ninety two, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue …” I learned that little ditty when I was 4 years old, and for many more years, I believed it. I believed that Columbus “discovered” America. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I learned that story...

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