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Wishing a Happy 95th Birthday to the Legendary Clint Eastwood 🎂🤠

Today we honor Clint Eastwood, one of the greatest figures in the history of cinema — an icon whose career spans nearly seven decades as an actor, director, and storyteller.

⭐ From the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) to the hard-edged Dirty Harry, he redefined toughness and cool on screen.

⭐ As a director, he gifted us timeless masterpieces like Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, and American Sniper. His artistry behind the camera is as legendary as his on-screen presence.

⭐ With a career filled with Oscars, accolades, and generations of fans, Clint Eastwood embodies resilience, independence, and timeless cinematic power.

At 95 years young, Eastwood stands as a living legend — proof that true greatness never fades.

On this day of celebration of indigenous people, while the country colonial mindset still find it acceptable to celebrate Christopher Columbus arrival to what was called the "New world" on October 12, 1492, I feel tenderness for the immense work that is still needed to heal the wound of that genocide that started more than 500 years ago.

Prior to Columbus"s arrival in the Americas in 1492, this land boasted thriving indigenous populations totaling to more than 60 million people.

A little over a century later, that number had dropped close to 6 million.

European contact brought with it not only war and famine, race supremacy and genocide, but also diseases like smallpox that decimated local populations.

Not only a systematic suppression and oppression of native people was embedded in the take over of the land, but their food sources was decimated and their culture almost destroyed.

In that process the knowledge of the plants, land, and local medicine was almost lost and what we call north America went from a very large scale and abundant wild and balanced garden to an industrial agricultural complex. River are not drinkable anymore. Soil is contaminated. Drough and flood have increased by 10 fold, close to 20% of American are hungry and poverty rate are higher than ever.

MAYBE YOU DON"T KNOW:The moment history"s most famous explorer went from hero to prisoner in chains. Columbus"s actions in the New World shocked even the Spanish Crown and led to one of the most catastrophic downfalls in the history of exploration. The truth behind his final voyages will change everything you thought you knew about this legendary figure.

An investigation led by Francisco de Bobadilla revealed horrifying details of Columbus"s rule in Hispaniola. Witnesses witnessed systematic torture, mutilation, and executions of both the native Taíno and Spanish colonists who dared to oppose his authority. Columbus is said to have ordered the cutting off of ears and noses as punishment, and instituted a reign of terror that plunged the colony into utter chaos.

When Bobadilla arrived in 1500, he discovered hanged bodies and discovered that Columbus had sold natives into slavery without royal permission. The evidence was so overwhelming that Bobadilla immediately ordered the arrest of Columbus and his two brothers, Bartholomew and Diego, who had served as his lieutenants in this brutal regime.

Although Columbus was eventually pardoned by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, his reputation was permanently damaged. He was allowed to make one last voyage in 1502, but was forbidden to land on Hispaniola and never regained his former titles of Governor General and Viceroy of the Indies. This event exposed the dark side of European colonialism, shaping the treatment of native peoples for centuries to come.