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Christopher Columbus statue removed from Columbus City Hall
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:48 am
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:48 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Crews early Wednesday removed the statue of Christopher Columbus from in front of Columbus City Hall. Shortly before 6:30 a.m. local time, the statue was lifted off its pedestal and rotated to face City Hall. Within an hour, the statue had been placed onto a flatbed truck and taken away from the area. According to a press release issued by the city Wednesday morning, Smoot Construction was involved in moving the statue, which “will be placed in safekeeping at a secure city facility.”
quote:Damn Chris
The decision was hailed by groups that say Columbus statues depict the explorer’s genocidal cleansing of the New World and exploitation of Native people, and opposed by Italian-Americans who say the statues are works of art that forge goodwill and should be preserved.
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Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:49 am to BowDownToLSU
Are we doing away with Mt. Rushmore, all the monuments in DC and other places as well?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:50 am to BowDownToLSU
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that say Columbus statues depict the explorer’s genocidal cleansing of the New World and exploitation of Native people
They are free to live somewhere else that has no such history. Good fricking luck finding place to live that has no conquering in its history
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:50 am to BowDownToLSU
He looks disappointed but like he understands these people have just lost their minds for a bit.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:51 am to kywildcatfanone
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Are we doing away with Mt. Rushmore, all the monuments in DC and other places as well?
That may very well be next. This nonsense reminds me of the Taliban.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 am to BowDownToLSU
Better rename the city too.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 am to BowDownToLSU
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 am to BowDownToLSU
Where can I go to bid on that fricker? It would look great at the end of my driveway. Maybe have a hole cut into for a mailbox.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:52 am to kywildcatfanone
quote:funny you should ask South Dakota tribal leader joins call to remove Mount Rushmore ahead of Trump visit
Are we doing away with Mt. Rushmore, all the monuments in DC and other places as well?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:53 am to Kino74
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This nonsense reminds me of the Taliban.
Good call, that is exactly what it is like.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:53 am to BowDownToLSU
American progressives are a bigger threat to statues and monuments than ISIS or the Taliban.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:53 am to BowDownToLSU
Absurdity aside-----Where does the mantra that Columbus massacred all of the Native Americans even come from? I'm pretty sure he never even set foot on the North American continent.
Other than the Spanish in Mexico, I am not aware of any mass-scale slaughter of the natives anywhere in North America. Now, I am sure there were plentiful localized instances, on both sides btw. But no one massacred all of the Indians.
Other than the Spanish in Mexico, I am not aware of any mass-scale slaughter of the natives anywhere in North America. Now, I am sure there were plentiful localized instances, on both sides btw. But no one massacred all of the Indians.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:54 am to BowDownToLSU
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The decision was hailed by groups that say Columbus statues depict the explorer’s genocidal cleansing of the New World and exploitation of Native people, and opposed by Italian-Americans who say the statues are works of art that forge goodwill and should be preserved.
Yet we ignore active African genocides every single day?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:54 am to BowDownToLSU
Good. He made people of color mine diamonds and cut their hands off
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:54 am to kywildcatfanone
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Are we doing away with Mt. Rushmore
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:55 am to Indefatigable
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I'm pretty sure he never even set foot on the North American continent.
He did, but not in the continental US.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:55 am to fallguy_1978
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Better rename the city too.
They are.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:56 am to BowDownToLSU
So, what are we going to call the city now, the city formerly known as Columbus Ohio?
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:56 am to BowDownToLSU
While we're removing every single thing tied to slavery, we all need to stop listening to music. Because what we call blues/jazz/rock and then much later rap - all comes from slaves bringing their native country's form of music together. The song "Amazing Grace" - yeah, that's tied to slavery.
Posted on 7/1/20 at 10:57 am to el Gaucho
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Good. He made people of color mine diamonds and cut their hands off
They must have been shitty miners without hands.
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