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Jul 9, 2020 · Published: July 9, 2020 6:31am EDT. Decapitated: a statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Park in June 2020. CJ Gunther/EPA. The long history of celebrating Christopher Columbus discovering ...
Jul 12, 2020 · Why are statues of Christopher Columbus being pull down in the US? Protestors in Baltimore said the Italian explorer is responsible for the genocide and exploitation of native peoples in...
Jun 16, 2020 · Cancel culture, with its shortcomings, insists that Christopher Columbus was no explorer but rather the most brutal of colonizers, and Robert Lee was no general; he was a slave-owning traitor who ...
Jul 31, 2020 · Onesti: It’s not about what happened at 3 a.m. last Thursday. It’s about what happens next. [The statues] commemorated and fostered our Italian heritage here in Chicago. The actual [number of ...
Jun 24, 2020 · This wave of anti-racist iconoclasm is global and does not admit exceptions. Italians (including Italian-Americans) and Spaniards are proud of Columbus, but statues of the man who “discovered” the Americas do not have the same symbolic meaning for indigenous peoples.
Jun 10, 2020 · A decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus stands in Christopher Columbus Park in Boston, June 10, 2020. The statue's head, damaged overnight, was recovered by the Boston Police Department, as a ...
Jun 24, 2020 · Among swing sets and slides in Schenley Park in Oakland, there stands a statue of Christopher Columbus. On Friday, June 12, passerbys would’ve seen it covered in red handprints and painted messages: “OG PIG,” “murderer” and “scum.” This wasn’t the first time this Columbus statue had been vandalized.
