Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 15, 2019 4:27:26 GMT 12
DON'T JUDGE CAPTAIN JAMES COOK BY TODAY'S STANDARDS
Cook and his crew were the astronauts of their day and faced challenges of a similar scale.
It's a little hard when you hear a man you grew up admiring for his feats of seamanship and relatively enlightened approach to meeting and dealing with indigenous peoples being smeared as a racist and colonialist oppressor.
Captain James Cook is being judged by folk who live 250 years on from when he first arrived in New Zealand.
www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/117427485/dont-judge-captain-james-cook-by-todays-standards
Cook and his crew were the astronauts of their day and faced challenges of a similar scale.
It's a little hard when you hear a man you grew up admiring for his feats of seamanship and relatively enlightened approach to meeting and dealing with indigenous peoples being smeared as a racist and colonialist oppressor.
Captain James Cook is being judged by folk who live 250 years on from when he first arrived in New Zealand.
www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/117427485/dont-judge-captain-james-cook-by-todays-standards