...tell me “that was a long time ago.” That’s no excuse to continue celebrating as a hero Christopher Columbus, who captured five hundred Native Americans (four hundred of whom died in the ships) for slavery in Europe, and who thus paved the way for the slave trade. In elementary school, we were taught that Christopher Columbus was a hero who wanted to prove that the world was round. However, that...

Human rights are infinitely more important than greed and wealth for the power-tripping few. It is truly appalling that here we are in the twenty-first century, and we still have slavery and American citizens buy products that come from slave labor. http://www.change.org/polarisproject/actions/view/tell_the_department_of_labor_to_release_its_list_of_goods_tainted_by_slave_labor#letter_form