{"id":29813,"date":"2016-10-12T03:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29813"},"modified":"2016-10-12T03:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:09:01","slug":"columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/columbus-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Day<br \/>\nIs far and away<br \/>\nThe most terrible day of all<br \/>\nTo celebrate such a hopeless state<br \/>\nOf hatred and of gall<\/p>\n<p>A man who by his own hand<br \/>\nIn his own journals has said<br \/>\nHe murdered into the millions<br \/>\nLeaving the whole lot dead<\/p>\n<p>Rape pillage and torture<br \/>\nOn compassionate innocent souls<br \/>\nAnd this is the man you celebrate<br \/>\nTell me which of your trolls<br \/>\nCame up with this idea<br \/>\nThat a monster needed to be<br \/>\nCelebrated once a year<br \/>\nFor his base depravity<\/p>\n<p>ARawak babies killed for dog food<br \/>\nBromen and raped and more<br \/>\nThe squalor and the evil<br \/>\nHow can you ignore<br \/>\nThe history 3 million native<br \/>\nPeople slaughtered there<br \/>\nand that just on one island<br \/>\nAnd no one now aware<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Day a time of peace<br \/>\nAnd harmony abroad<br \/>\nCelebrating the direst ugliest monster<br \/>\nHis reward<br \/>\nFor total death and destruction<br \/>\nOf the indigenous people he<br \/>\nFound to be already living<br \/>\nVery comfortably<br \/>\nRich in sweet compassion<br \/>\nLoving to a tee<br \/>\nHe broke the women and the children<br \/>\nThis tribute actually<\/p>\n<p>Is so misplaced and ugly<br \/>\nSo evil and so wrong<br \/>\nThe present indigenous people<br \/>\nWho suffer all along<br \/>\nIf you want to call it anything<br \/>\nCall it the  your indigenous day<br \/>\nAnd get rid of that brute Columbus<br \/>\nMake the bastard pay<\/p>\n<p>Wipe him out of history<br \/>\nRe write the books and lies<br \/>\nTeach your children honesty<br \/>\nAnd empathy for the Wise<br \/>\nOnes will always matter<br \/>\nThe karma you Instil<br \/>\nIn every celebratory day<br \/>\nIn His name does only kill<br \/>\nThe spirit of the people<br \/>\nAncestors realise<br \/>\nDisrespecting people<br \/>\nAnd basing it on lies<\/p>\n<p>Deceit and fooling people<br \/>\nBrainwashing on a scale<br \/>\nDoth alienate forever<br \/>\nThe obnoxious and baneful trail<br \/>\nThat spreads its ghastly shadows<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nauseous stink abroad<br \/>\nTo aggravate and exasperate<br \/>\nWhich no one can afford<br \/>\nTo antagonise and give umbrage<br \/>\nTo taunt to goad to sting<br \/>\nTo madden and to anger<br \/>\nThat will never bring<\/p>\n<p>The people who are suffering<br \/>\nOut of their enmity<br \/>\nTheir revulsion and their loathing and pure antipathy<br \/>\nIt is odious and repellant<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s poisoning their mind<br \/>\nColumbus Day an anathema<br \/>\nThat each year just does wind<br \/>\nThe people still remaining up<br \/>\nThe indigenous souls still here<br \/>\nUnlamented spurned and still condemned<br \/>\nIn a great vacuum of fear<\/p>\n<p>AMERICA END THIS FUTILE DISTRACTION<br \/>\nConsign COlumbus Day to the hell he made for the innocent millions<br \/>\nWho were raped and murdered on his watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Day Is far and away The most terrible day of all To celebrate such a hopeless state Of hatred and of gall A man who by his own hand In his own journals has said He murdered into the &hellip; 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