Mr. Columbus, thank you for the holiday

If we had allowed the story of Christopher Columbus to be written by the natives of the very land we stand on, we would now have a much different view of him. This is a perfect example of the Ethiopian proverb "Until lions have their own historians, the hunter will always be glorified".
Christopher's story, which we are forced fed to believe, would have us believe he was a noble pioneer. If only the pen which wrote his story was in the hands of a Native American, not of a Spanish historian.
In a twist of event, which pleasantly favors pure honesty over someone's version of it, we got the full story on Mr. Columbus. Imagine for a moment if we had not. If all his atrocities and injustices had been erased by time and forgotten. Those who have the time and resources to write a complete works of their time are the ones who can write about those around them. The Native Americans could barely afford to do such a thing, on account that they quickly became a hunted and persecuted people by a vast quantity of outsiders. That's what it all boils down to; it’s about majority and minority.
The majority has the luxury of appointing writers to their cause, they get to be judge and jury in a mental trial we never hear about it. He or she gets to decide whom the majority is and what they want to hear. In some cases they don't even do it subjectively. A faulty notion, which presupposes that history, can be ignored or emphasized and then standardized. Like hunters, their stories become about how important the thrill is or how vital the control of overpopulation has become. The lion knows, however, that the thrill is one they fear and that overpopulation is a made up factor by those who can afford to do the exact same themselves.
As a notion taken from The Blood of the Martyr points out, there is still a distant hope however. We lions might be in the minority for now, driven and controlled by much greater forces but we will always know what which the hunters do not. The power to endure harm will always outlive the power to inflict it.