By Tria Andrews A misguided essay-comic titled “Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)” was recently posted on by Matthew Inman on The Oatmeal and is presently circulating on Facebook. This essay, based on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and James W. Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, seeks … Continue reading “Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not)”: A Flawed Critique of Columbus Day that Omits Indigenous Peoples in Present Day and Virtually Ignores the Enslavement of African Americans