Okay... Who the fuck said Columbus was a "good person". What I was taught was that Columbus opened up the west for colonization. There was no hero worship, just a historically relevant, Important event. Yes, Lief Erikson and others did more actual discovering of the American continents, but it was as a direct result of what Columbus did. I was in school ~1993-2005 and we were taught about the trail of tears, the systematic marginalization and extermination of native Americans. Regardless of everything that happened, a lot of horrible, there's also a lot of good. I don't in any way celebrate Columbus day. We don't even get off of school in a lot of places. It's just one of those holidays they came up with that's not really of any consequence. Should be changed to something like 'explorers day" where we celebrate all the people who risked life and limb to widen our understanding of the world absolutely, but colombus isn't unimportant and he isn't all bad. Like all people, he was human and multi-dimensional. So I think for the people who are agreeing with this, they probably weren't paying great attention to what they were learning.