Bill Bigelow on "the invaded, the owned, the bombed, the poisoned, the silenced"

A new article by Bill Bigelow critiques with clarity the origins of colonization in Africa and the Americas.  It's worthy of mention here for many reasons including the fact that Bigelow knows his history, and because his professional orientation is that of an educator who speaks factually with firmness and dispassion.

Bigelow is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools and the co-director of the Zinn Education Project, and in the lead in to he article, Bigelow says "The world is still sliced in two between the worthy — the owning classes, the corporate masters, the generals — and the nobodies. The invaded, the owned, the bombed, the poisoned, the silenced."

The piece, published at the Zinn Education Project, is entitled "Christopher Columbus: No Monuments for Murderers," and can be read in full here.