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Jul 12, 2020 · Similarly, in a tweet, The Richmond Indigenous Society said: “We are gathering at Byrd Park to protest yet another racist monument. “Christopher Columbus was a murderer of indigenous people ...
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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...
Oct 11, 2021 · One part of Columbus's past that people need to understand is his cruelty, Negrin said. Columbus served as the governor of Hispaniola in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. According to ...
Oct 14, 2020 · There were between 5 million and 15 million Indigenous people living in North America in 1492. By the late 1800s, there were fewer than 238,000 left. The so-called “Age of Discovery” has begot centuries of genocide. Crashing to the ground alongside statues and monuments of slaveowners and Confederate generals, during the nationwide anti ...
Oct 12, 2020 · The Columbus statue in Richmond, the first of its kind in the South, was built in 1927—a project of the local Italian community. Rather than celebrate racism, however, the community erected the ...
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 ...
Oct 7, 2019 · Like many European explorers, Christopher Columbus encountered Indigenous people throughout his voyages. There are three main sources of controversy involving his interactions with the Indigenous ...
