Stop the Press! Let’s Take a Good Look at Our Common Ground
How History Shows Our Common Humanity
16 min readNov 14, 2018
Picture this: It’s 1492. A small group of Arawak Indians stand on the shore watching a collection of wooden boats rowing towards them. Approaching them is Death, in the form of dozens of filthy, hungry Spaniards whose germs, if not their swords, will kill them, maybe not today, but eventually, and all…
