DNA analysis of the remains of Christopher Columbus, done by forensic scientists at the University of Cambridge, prove beyond a shadow a doubt that the famed navigator was of African descent.
“A five-hundred-year-mystery has been solved,” said Wellington Malley, the head of the Cambridge research team. “Even though Columbus was born in Genoa, and spoke and wrote in Spanish most of his life, the DNA is clear – Columbus was 100% African. We believe he was from the west coast, probably from what is now Cameroon.”
It’s the truth. .. Some of the remains of Christopher Columbus were found in Seville Cathedral, in Spain, and some bones were buried in Santo Domingo Cathedral in the Dominican Republic. “All of the bones and the remains from both locations have been checked and rechecked. He’s black.”
Columbus died in 1506. In 1537, the widow of his son Diego was allowed to take the bones of both her husband and his father to the Dominican Republic for burial in the cathedral of Santo Domingo. Diego was also black.
Not all African-Americans were pleased to know learn about Columbus’s ethnic identity. “What? Columbo was a thug, a killer. He sailed out over here and slaughtered the Indians, ” said Fred Johnson of Harlem. “I think the whole thing is bogus, trying to pin a crime on blacks again. This is B.S.”
But President Obama heard news over the weekend and was proud to know that one of the greatest sailors and navigators of all time was black. “I’m ordering all statues and monuments to Christopher Columbus be taken down and redone. We want his likeness to be accurate.”
Mayor Bloomberg in New York said that the big Italian-American parade down 5th Avenue would be changed to an African-American parade in honor of Christopher Columbus.
The Grand Marshall of 2011 Columbus Day Parade – Maria Bartiromo was replaced by Beyonce.
Native-Americans were indifferent to the news, Navajo Indian tribes felt that they lost lives either way.
-Joann Yoon
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