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Which would it make it even funnier that all the descendants of Southern Italian and Sicilian immigrants in US cities would hold up an explorer who was previously thought to have been Genoan(or Portugese or Polish) as an example of Italian pride...
Columbus, more than any other western historical celebrity, has really gotten thumped around during my lifetime.
My first exposure was as a child and Columbus was presented as 100 % heroic. Brave explorer sets out into the unknown looking for a route to the East, and instead winds up inventing truth, justice and the American way etc.
The first wave of revisionism clarified that Columbus wasn't all that sharp, his discovery was an accidental by product of a gross miscalculation he had made concerning the size of the globe.
The next wave zeroed in on Columbus as the cruel greedy ruler of the new world islands, the heartless exploiter/exterminator of the hapless natives.
Now it turns out that he isn't even Italian as we have all so long believed.
We might speculate as to what the next revelation may be. Perhaps it will turn out that Columbus actually only existed in myth, like namesake Saint Christopher whom the Catholic church decannonized in the 1950's upon learning that he has never really existed.
Krzysztof Kolumbowicz (that was probably his real name) is not a myth, the historians are in possession of his son's DNA sample (which shows chromosomes most common in Poland) and are going to compare it with DNAs of Polish kings who rest in Krakow. At this point it is almost certain that he was Polish, like Casimir Pulaski or Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
The following link doesn't offer conclusive proof of Columbus' ethnicity, but it does give some compelling historical background that still leaves it to the reader to judge:
Close To Torah » Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? (http://www.closetotorah.com/archives/1328 - broken link)
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