No Mail for you! (Columbus day)

 Under construction, watch your head.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbus-day-holiday-school-post-office-open-stock-market/5885574/

Biggie controversies surrounding Columbus, keep this entry from ever being much more than a footnote under construction.
Anyway...(To be added)

Train of thought from a headline:

Teachers will spout (no one asked, but) 

• Columbus never really discovered America, because:
• The indigenous people discovered it before, and He only discovered the "West Indies" (whatever they are) And
• Leif Erickson got here way before. 

Canada, Cuba, who discovered New York?
(see above, Verrazano found it, Minuit bought it)

As a matter of fact, I'm about to parrot people renaming the holiday.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/10/13/indigenous-peoples-day/75590291007/

He "discovered" Cuba, but no one is saying that, they bombast you with facts and more facts (but their map kind of shows Cuba)

I don't know why they thought it was headline material to state Columbus was jewish, and even more obscure was his "Sephardic" - uh, well anyway if he was, him being jewish was already a biggie thing, wasn't it?

Admiral Farragut, Not Lord Nelson

Like saying a Mexican was really from Guatemala, a chinese was actually from Taiwan (I know it matters, but to whom?)

We (schoolchildren) Know the names of the boats and the year he landed in (Cuba?) so give us a "c-" already.

And the King

And the Queen

And (stop me when this gets boring)
My point is, stop running down the poor guy, although the part about him going to Spain (for a loan)(not Italy nor Jerusalem, etc) might be in the movie they show, I never watched, but...

Who the guy was who traveled to NYC laden with shiny beads and who married Pocahontas eventually, seems to me to be more holiday-worthy, but I've never been involved in Politics. 
Doesn't Pocahontas remind a person of "Romeo + Juliet"? 

I kind of get that vibe from the fable.

(Parroting) "Jamestown, 1607,"
 Life really sucked, then the Indians saved everyone,
Not 2 be confused with the
DAR-type people who came on a Biggie boat (Mayflower)
and who discovered a rock, 13 years after (1620), pardon my math

(Yet another smear: the 1607-guys are barely mentioned, and the 1620-guys get all the credit, turkeys)

Jamestown's swampy environs claim the life of yet another 17th-century English settler in this painting by NPS artist Sydney King.

Denzel Washington quote

I briefly (for five minutes) associated san salvador with St. Barth, and if you've got a plane, I suppose they're related.
The ai figured maybe El Salvador was related too, but I doubt it.

Saint (Bartholomew?) and San Salvador are in different parts of something called the "Indies", but that's no help at all. East, west, French, nevermind.

My next politically loaded, extremely naive question shall be (ta ta ta DA!) 

Did Columbus discover "Cuba"?