This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A group of protesters pulled down a statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in Saint Paul, Minn., on Thursday, the latest U.S. monument to be torn down amid countrywide demonstrations against police brutality and racial inequalities.
“It was the right thing to do and it was the right time to do it,” the activist, Mike Forcia, told Reuters in apparent reference to more than two weeks of protests over the May 25 death of a 46-year-old black man, George Floyd, under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer.Native American activists have long objected to honouring Columbus, saying that his expeditions to the Americas led to the colonization and genocide of their ancestors.
Fkn Taliban
It is difficult to understand why people would want to destroy those things that remind us of the past be it good or bad. The mindless mobs that destroys the property of others has neither the ability nor fortitude to act as an enlightened member of society.
You mean Antifa uns tugs
The new North American culture based on consumeristic shallow materialism (some even say dialectical materialism), endless selfish wants and LGBTQ perversion where everyone is oppressed and the present is the only thing important to meet self-gratifying desires. Very sick society
Tear them down. Tear them all down. Worried about history? Read a book.
Why G&M doesn’t condemn this and only reports as news. When white dudes march peacefully with guns in southern states, they call them radical whites
Anti Italian losers
Where are the cops?
Too bad the military didn't step in.
Are you going to report that Seattle had warlords in it's autonomous zone and it's only been two days? 😂😂😂
What did Columbus do wrong?
American taliban
A final liberation from a tyrannical past!
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