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21 Aug 2017, 6:46 pm

Christopher Columbus monument vandalized in Baltimore

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A monument in Baltimore to Christopher Columbus — believed to be the first one erected to the Italian explorer in America — was vandalized.

A video posted to YouTube on Monday by a user named “Popular Resistance” shows a man striking the base of the monument near Herring Run Park repeatedly with a sledgehammer. Another person holds a sign that reads: “Racism, tear it down.” Another sign is taped to the monument reading: “The future is racial and economic justice.”

The celebration of Columbus’ exploits in the Americas has long been criticized by those who feel the Italian explorer’s misdeeds are too often glossed over. Many associate Columbus, who is often falsely credited with “discovering” what is now the United States, with enslaving, brutalizing and killing the native people he encountered in his travels.

Columbus statues and monuments have been defaced and damaged over the years, as more people learn about Columbus’ deadly legacy.

“This is happening everywhere,” said Kevin Caira, president of the Sons of Italy’s Commission for Social Justice. Over the weekend, a Columbus statue in Boston was painted red and a protest was held at a statue in Detroit, he said.

In 2015, someone splashed red paint and planted a hatchet on the head of a bronze statue of Columbus in Detroit, according to the Detroit News.

There are a lot of good reasons to mock Trump but he was spot on with the slippery slope statement about the statues.

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21 Aug 2017, 6:49 pm

Screw Christopher Columbus, I can see why people may not appreciate monuments to him...let alone a day to celebrate him.

Better more positive things have come out of Italy than that disgraceful person...such as the band Rhapsody of Fire previously known as Rhapsody.

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21 Aug 2017, 6:57 pm

Columbus was a scumbag. He didn't discover America. The Native Americans did.

Columbus started the Native American genocide. Why should we honor him with a statue?

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21 Aug 2017, 7:35 pm

^The Natives were here first, but as far as any european discovery it was the Vikings who found Vinland...and that was before Columbus I am pretty sure.

Columbus day is a double insult to me....I am part Native American and of norse decent, so not only did he kill my ancestors but then he got credit for a discovery the Vikings made.

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21 Aug 2017, 7:52 pm

This is silly, native Americans took slaves. What should we do about that? Tear down the casinos?

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21 Aug 2017, 7:54 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

Leif Erikson beat Columbus by about 400 or so years. Communication with the natives wasn't very steady, though, and Vinland didn't last very long.

I have Cherokee in my ancestry myself.

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21 Aug 2017, 8:10 pm

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The discovery of the Vikings was either largely unknown of forgotten at the time of Columbus, and the Vikings probably never understood the size and the importance of their discoveries. (Columbus neither though; he die thinking he reached Asia.)

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21 Aug 2017, 9:07 pm

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Give these f***heads an inch and they'll take a mile every time.

Darn right!

We are taking that mile and there's nothing that you can do about it!

NOTHING

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21 Aug 2017, 9:34 pm

To hell with Columbus and the boat he rode in on.
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/h ... umbus-day/

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21 Aug 2017, 9:36 pm

DarthMetaKnight wrote:

Drake wrote:

Give these f***heads an inch and they'll take a mile every time.

Darn right!

We are taking that mile and there's nothing that you can do about it!

NOTHING

Do you really think that's going to help the way the left is perceived? I think more and more people, especially young people, aren't going to want have anything to do with being a member of it.

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21 Aug 2017, 9:40 pm

He was just some guy who was trying to find the "shortest route to the Indies" so some king could trade easier with the "Orient."

Of course, he did start the Native American genocide--but I don't think he really meant to do that. The concept of the spread of bacteria was unknown in those days.

He was just a typical imperialist-type--not good by any means.

He's not exactly a George Washington type.

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21 Aug 2017, 9:46 pm

/\Ummm,let his crew rape,pillage and enslave the natives they encountered?Also an anti -Semite.The dude was an ass.

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21 Aug 2017, 9:48 pm

Shrapnel wrote:

This is silly, native Americans took slaves. What should we do about that? Tear down the casinos?

Can we start with Trump's?

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21 Aug 2017, 10:05 pm

Misslizard wrote:

Shrapnel wrote:

This is silly, native Americans took slaves. What should we do about that? Tear down the casinos?

Can we start with Trump's?

Lol but Trump doesn't own an Indian casino.

They call themselves Indians. It was only white PC liberals who insisted they be called Native Americans. The Indians I've known of like the Paiute in Vegas and the Tulalip here, think it's dumb.

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21 Aug 2017, 10:17 pm

EzraS wrote:

Misslizard wrote:

Shrapnel wrote:

This is silly, native Americans took slaves. What should we do about that? Tear down the casinos?

Can we start with Trump's?

Of course not,the geezer is white as a biscuit.A biscuit dipped in self tanner.
You don't celebrate CC day there in Seattle do you?

I think Native or Indian is a matter of personal choice.Some people refer to themselves as Black,and others African American.

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21 Aug 2017, 10:38 pm

I've always credited the Vikings with the discovery of North America.

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