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Jul 12, 2020 · By Charlie Duffield. July 12, 2020 8:51 am (Updated 9:55 am) Alongside the wave of anti- racism protests which have been sweeping the globe since the death of African American George Floyd on 25...
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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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Oct 12, 2020 · Activism. October 12, 2020. It’s Time for Italian Americans to Give Up on Columbus. For over a century, Italians have mythologized the genocidal explorer to gain access to American whiteness....
Elaine Thompson. Monday, Oct. 14 is Columbus Day this year. If you celebrate Christopher Columbus (born Cristofor Colombo) on that day or any other day, you are a celebrator of racist...
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Oct 11, 2021 · America has had a racial reckoning. So what is the legacy of Christopher Columbus now? Javonte Anderson. USA TODAY. In the heart of downtown Chicago, on the edge of Grant Park, are 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...
Oct 2, 2023 · Demonstrators pulled down statues of Christopher Columbus in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Richmond, Virginia, and decapitated another in Boston, targeting monuments seen as symbols of white supremacy.
