Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch

[nextormento]

You wouldn't spend the equivalent of millions of dollars just in the hope that something is there.

The hope was reaching East Asia, not America.
They Catholic Monarchs didn't know about America. They were very skeptical of him being able to reach East Asia, and rejected the project several times.
They (under)funded the trip because:
-they had a surge of cash a few months after they toppled the last remaining Islamic area in the peninsula: Granada.
-they didn't want other kingdoms to open the route before they did.

[Deletedaccount1]

Because they weren't white?

Because it wasn't linked to a World war where white European soldiers died?

This was a native american holocaust.

Which Holocaust is worse? Answer carefully because you will have to live with that answer the rest of your life.

Because Hitler killed millions of more people obviously. Please learn basic arithmetic before you flame me for being a racist.