As a performer Leguizamo is great; as a historian a moron.
He acts like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is big news. It was written in 1980 and actually is read in many schools today. While I applaud his attempt to "educate" his audience, he needs to read a bit more himself. He intimates that Europeans waged biological warfare on Native Americans when no one had any idea about diseases back then. Europeans didn't "give" diseases to America. What an idiotic way to rewrite history! He needs to read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. He also needs to stop blaming European civilization for every modern problem in the world today-like he blames his personal problems on his ex-wife's divorce lawyer.
Once again, I'm being lectured to for being white and stupid by a guy who doesn'y know much at all about the history of the indigenous populations of North and South America. He also screams that every European contribution to society is a lie or stolen from some other culture.
He acts like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is big news. It was written in 1980 and actually is read in many schools today. While I applaud his attempt to "educate" his audience, he needs to read a bit more himself. He intimates that Europeans waged biological warfare on Native Americans when no one had any idea about diseases back then. Europeans didn't "give" diseases to America. What an idiotic way to rewrite history! He needs to read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. He also needs to stop blaming European civilization for every modern problem in the world today-like he blames his personal problems on his ex-wife's divorce lawyer.
Once again, I'm being lectured to for being white and stupid by a guy who doesn'y know much at all about the history of the indigenous populations of North and South America. He also screams that every European contribution to society is a lie or stolen from some other culture.