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Jun 10, 2024 · Photo: Hotel.Info. In the early 1990s, Trump was accused of being racist toward Black people by the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino John O’Donnell. In addition, the Casino paid ...
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Jul 25, 2016 · Donald Trump’s long history of racism, from the 1970s to 2020. Trump has repeatedly claimed he’s “the least racist person.”. His history suggests otherwise. by German Lopez. Aug 13, 2020 ...
Nov 2, 2021 · At the time, although two decades had passed since the death of Francisco Franco, many Spaniards were still in denial about the horrors of the Civil War and the decades of Fascism that followed it ...
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Columbus has endured as a particularly sacred national symbol. Despite the fact that the Italian explorer never set foot in what was to become the United States, he is lauded for “discovering” America and has been welded to the very idea of its modern nation state. In a speech marking Independence Day on July 4, the US president, Donald Trump, sugg...
Native American activists have long seen Columbus as a villain, an agent responsible for the invasion, conquest and subsequent occupation of the Americas. He represents the genesis of forces that embraced slavery and colonialism, because he was personally involvedin enslavement, mass brutality and theft of indigenous land. Today’s activists continu...
Many states are now voting to remove statues from state buildings and public parks, acknowledging the pain that celebrating Columbus causes for so many, and the way it privileges the settler narrative. Statues of Columbus are markers of how societies choose to remember their history. It is a selective and often politicised process: who is chosen to...
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In the same letter, Columbus created the original myth of Christopher Columbus as Europe’s greatest creator of wealth and saver of souls. “ (L)et us be glad not only for the exaltation of our ...
Jun 16, 2020 · Columbus statues from Boston to Miami have been brought down or defaced by protesters. A large Columbus statue was defaced with red graffiti in Kenosha, Wis., and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York ...
Aug 12, 2020 · Protesters pulled it down with a rope and celebrated as it fell, while police looked on, drawing the ire of President Donald Trump, who tweeted that those who destroyed the monument were a “disgrace to our Country.” On June 22, D.C. protesters attempted to pull down a statue of President Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder, before police used ...
