Following an October 10 Colorado Media Matters item about KNUS 710 AM Backbone Radio host John Andrews' remark that Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World “was good ... for the people from Africa who were brought here against their will,” Colorado Inside Out panelist Dani Newsum on the October 11 broadcast named Andrews her choice as the “Disgrace of the Week.” During the KBDI Channel 12 program, Newsum chastised Andrews for having the “temerity ... to tell African-Americans that they are better off for having been kidnapped and enslaved in America, justifying Columbus' discovery of America.”

As Colorado Media Matters noted, on his October 7 broadcast, Andrews asserted that Columbus' discovery “was good for the inhabitants of the New World. It was good for the inhabitants of the whole world.” While acknowledging later in the program that “bloodshed” and “atrocities” were committed during the ensuing conquests, Andrews also claimed that the discovery “was good too for the people from Africa who were brought here against their will.” He further asserted that “people of African ancestry” had claimed to have “ended up benefiting immensely as a result” of their ancestors' slavery, concluding, “There is no one that didn't benefit” from the discovery of the New World.

From the October 11 broadcast of KBDI Channel 12's Colorado Inside Out:

RAJ CHOHAN (host): Let's rocket through “Disgrace of the Week” -- we've got about a minute and a half left. Go ahead.

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NEWSUM: John Andrews, for having the temerity -- Republicans, this is why you're in the minority -- to tell African-Americans that they are better off for having been kidnapped and enslaved in America, justifying Columbus' discovery of America.