So, I know I'll catch flack for this because the "new" historians are on a rampage against him and are on a quest to remove all statues of him. It really doesn’t matter to me if he was good or not. He was willing to do something that most people thought 700 years ago thought impossible to do. And yes, he was probably a bit "harsh" to the indigenous people who were NOT as pure as the White driven snow! Also, What do I care if George Washington or Thomas Jefferson owned slaves or this person did this or that. What is that to me or anybody else alive today? I don’t get this sudden urge to scrub and sanitize history. So Columbus wasn’t a Saint, but who is except Jesus.....but they nailed him to a cross!!