According to the New York Post, "the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at Columbus Circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito said on Monday."
Mark-Viverito pointed her crosshairs at Columbus while advocating the removal of another statue: controversial Dr. J. Marion Sims, who is alleged to have conducted medical experiments on slaves without anesthesia.
“I would definitely encourage them to take a look at that one as well,” Mark-Viverito said.
The Columbus statue was given to America by the Italians in 1892. Columbus is a revered figure in Italy.
“There obviously has been ongoing dialogue and debate in the Caribbean — particularly in Puerto Rico where I’m from — about this same conversation that there should be no monument or statue of Christopher Columbus based on what he signifies to the native population ... [the] oppression and everything that he brought with him,” she added.
Columbus Circle Monument Now On The SJW Chopping Block
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.”
Police are searching for information about the men in the video, as well as whoever filmed it.
“We want to inform people it is a crime to destroy property. And if the person is identified who is responsible for this, they will be prosecuted,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.
The narrator of the video, who says his name is Ty, calls Christopher Columbus a “genocidal terrorist.”
The monument, which features a two-story-tall obelisk atop a base, was still standing on Monday morning, but there was a gaping hole in the front and chunks of stone were scattered in the grass. The signs seen in the video were lying on the ground.
Christopher Columbus monument vandalized in Baltimore
Yep - Progressives have long had a problem with Columbus ..... I remember the early 90s when the Statue in front of Union Station DC was splashed with red paint
Mark-Viverito pointed her crosshairs at Columbus while advocating the removal of another statue: controversial Dr. J. Marion Sims, who is alleged to have conducted medical experiments on slaves without anesthesia.
“I would definitely encourage them to take a look at that one as well,” Mark-Viverito said.
The Columbus statue was given to America by the Italians in 1892. Columbus is a revered figure in Italy.
“There obviously has been ongoing dialogue and debate in the Caribbean — particularly in Puerto Rico where I’m from — about this same conversation that there should be no monument or statue of Christopher Columbus based on what he signifies to the native population ... [the] oppression and everything that he brought with him,” she added.
Columbus Circle Monument Now On The SJW Chopping Block
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.”
Police are searching for information about the men in the video, as well as whoever filmed it.
“We want to inform people it is a crime to destroy property. And if the person is identified who is responsible for this, they will be prosecuted,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.
The narrator of the video, who says his name is Ty, calls Christopher Columbus a “genocidal terrorist.”
The monument, which features a two-story-tall obelisk atop a base, was still standing on Monday morning, but there was a gaping hole in the front and chunks of stone were scattered in the grass. The signs seen in the video were lying on the ground.
Christopher Columbus monument vandalized in Baltimore
Yep - Progressives have long had a problem with Columbus ..... I remember the early 90s when the Statue in front of Union Station DC was splashed with red paint
