Letter to the editor: Let's be honest about Columbus

I take exception to columnist Paul Kengor’s description of Columbus as our country’s “discoverer” (“Tearing down Columbus — and Western civilization,” Sept. 29, TribLIVE). A professor should know enough history to know that Columbus never set foot on the continental U.S. Every place he did set foot, there were already thriving civilizations present.

So if Kengor wants to argue that we should preserve statues and a national holiday honoring the first European to land in the Caribbean, argue away. Let’s at least be honest and factual about such arguments.

Christian Winter

New Wilmington