{"id":2392,"date":"2020-08-30T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2020-08-30T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:30:49","slug":"julia-leonardi-08-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/30\/julia-leonardi-08-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Leonardi \/ 08\/30\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that came to mind when I was reading <em>\u201cColumbus, The Indians, and Human Progress,\u201d<\/em> was how robbed of an actual education I feel. Just barely hearing the story told from the people\u2019s point of view, changes my whole perspective of what history really is and how I need to change how it is viewed. Now knowing that it is this easy to just read and teach this side of history, I am disgusted that it took me going to college to read about Columbus as a villain and not the hero he\u2019s been taught to be. This idea of completely ignoring the \u201cgreat mans\u201d wrong doings was already something that angered me, but to ignore mass genocide (he wiped out half of Haiti within two years!!) and extremely inhumane acts towards people, is nauseating. This makes me want to get back into the public-school system and demand change within the curriculum that is taught to kids all across the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Zinn, who quotes Camus \u201cin world of \u201cvictims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.\u201d Although that is a factual statement, it shouldn\u2019t be like this. We as a society should be on the side of victims. We should teach the real story of the Americas to children, and not wait for them to get older and choose to figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that came to mind when I was reading \u201cColumbus, The Indians, and Human Progress,\u201d was how robbed of an actual education I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/08\/30\/julia-leonardi-08-30-2020\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Julia Leonardi \/ 08\/30\/2020<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}