Jacqueline Mosquera started a misguided petition to remove the Columbus Statue from Passaic Ave in Kearny New Jersey.

She incorrectly claims that he brought disease, slaughter, and enslavement to her native people. As the arrival of European colonists was inevitable disease was going to spread regardless, it is not an intentional act that caused the plagues that wiped out the Native Americans and in fact the diseases outpaced the settlers on all fronts. There was slaughter, but not of the peoples Columbus encountered, again you're either incorrectly attributing the deaths due to disease to an intentional sword swing or you're incorrectly saddling colombus with the conquistador wars of the following centuries. Finally, enslavement is also false, he referred to subjugation, meaning to make subjects of the crown and all the rights that includes, not forces labor.

These and other facts are widely available if you would get your information from unbiased sources and stopped giving in to sensationalism. Stop judging history through the lense of your modern morals and leave our  town, our history, and our culture alone