"Columbus was one of the perpetrator's of a genocide that cost at some 80-100 million lives of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas, not to mention later causing the Atlantic Slave Trade which compounded that number."

Nonsense. The real culprits were the "Conquistadores" like Pizarro, Cortez, De Almagro, etc. Columbus just ran into the Americas because he was looking for Asia. The Americas were bound to be invaded and colonized by European armies and settlers due to their technological and military advantage. The fact that this Italian explorer landed on Guanahani on October 12, 1492 is absolutely irrelevant.