People stand around the fallen Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, June 10, 2020.
Near Santa Fe, New Mexico, activists are calling for the removal of a statue of Don Juan de Oñate, a 16th-century Spanish conquistador revered as a Hispanic founding father and reviled for brutality against Native Americans, including an order to cut off the feet of two dozen people. Vandals sawed off the statue’s right foot in the 1990s.
On Wednesday night, protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy. The 8-foot bronze figure had already been targeted for removal by city leaders, but the crowd took matters into its own hands. No immediate arrests were made.
The monument is believed to be located where a slave whipping post once stood, and removing it is a small step in the right direction, Portsmouth activist and organizer Rocky Hines said. Supporters of Confederate monuments have argued that they are important reminders of history; opponents contend they glorify those who went to war against the U.S. to preserve slavery.
What about the pyramids...they were built by slaves, can we start a petition to bring those to the ground also. Get Tutankhamuns gang out and kick then about like a football 🤔 just asking ...why not?
1984
'I'm glad I live in Dixie, away, away....'
Idgits. Karma will be a b***h when it comes.
Please, it’s NOT just the death of George Floyd. It’s the death and potential violence against ALL black(and brown) people by the police in this country. (and around the world). During the protests; still continuing, we’ve had several deaths and felonies by militarize d police!
When is the Parthenon being dismantled?
The pyramid? The great wall of China? You pretty much need to remove most mosque and churches. Also pretty much go through Africa and most its major cities.
efrostee The cover photo by efrostee for this article has the greatest perspective.
newschannelnine Well..well. guess that will change history and solve all problems in the world. Snowflakes .
Now do Soros
It’s honestly like the world telling a bunch of racist hoarders “bro we don’t need that anymore we haven’t used shit in years”
Every generation deserves to tear down the statues of the evil men that preceded them. This way, no future generation will ever make the mistake of copying them. Or even know they ever existed in the first place.
Then movement is totally started and caused by fake media spreading fake information and dividing our country
There will be like 5 statues left standing. This is silly smoke and mirrors to avoid addressing the real issue that you can't FORCE people to not be hateful.
AuthenticAmUS Those 'explorers' were agents of imperialism, paid by the monarchs of Europe to find more land and Indigenous peoples to brutalize and subjugate to expand their wealth. So you already had them covered with 'slave traders, imperialists,conquerors.'
'oops, there goes million kilowatt dam..'
And deface the monuments to abolitionists and even the President who freed the slaves, but hey the mob knows best don't they.
Looks like these statues really did teach people history 😆 goodriddance
Tear down the statues, as long as President Trump REVERSES OR REPLACES every Obama Administration regulation, executive order, legislation, designation, appointment, dear colleague letter, policy and rule. I dont care.
Dirty low life. Needs to be face down.
We need to be tearing down statues of rapists as well. Start with billclinton ...oh and anything named 'Muhammad' since he was a prolific slave owner.
Racism taking it on the chin. Historically. F*ckers never were heroes, but to people just like them.
They must all be removed from public spaces.
Good.
Can you change 'around globe' to Western Nations. Because it only happening there not in Asian nor African countries.
Good
It’s out of control. Period.
JoeBidenIsARacist YouAintBlackBiden
People of color aren’t the minorities of the world. These statues represent the conquests of people of color’s freedoms and lands through Caucasian violence.
America, what do you need today? Ditch the statues. We need to focus forward, not backwards like MAGA. Ditch The Statues. DitchTheStatues
You love to see it! More more more
Why has this country glorified criminals and losers? All white men btw.
Cancel history today!
It's time! We all have better heroes now!
How about sexual predators who preyed on women?
I wonder if people during that time period would have viewed themselves in these terms. Yes because of these guys who took a stand and gave these little shits a right to free speech and right assembly peacefully, they believe it gives them a right to tear crap up.
TonyDertouzos This is wrong. They at the very least should have been moved to museums. Or given plagues. This is where I draw the line with the protesters. Nope.
I’m still waiting for an update on the FDR Memorial. 120000 Japanese Americans were caged up at his hands.
Why isnt Yale being forced to change their name? They are named after a slave trader
JonLemire Long overdue
Marxist want all vestiges of White history destroyed so they can rewrite it all with “approved history”.
Good riddance
Amazing, history never happened. Guess future generations will have to suffer the same bs and re-learn those lessons.
You should know...EVERY statue of a Confederate historical figure is memorializing a DEMOCRAT. There were NO Confederate Republicans. So, in essence, they're trying to erase THEIR history.
Trump & The GOP's ideology came from Southern Plantation Slave owners who had an Oligarchy described in 1924 in the book 'The Southern Oligarchy: An appeal in behalf of the silent masses of our country against the despotic rule of the few' January 1, 1924
TearDownTheDNC. All Confederates were Democrats. WalkAwayfrom the DemocratPlantation.
A. I’m mad at me for the song that came to mind when I saw the picture. B. They sanitize the atrocities committed by these ‘heroes’ and raise statues of them so that you’ll forget history & perpetuate the lie. The effectiveness shows in the comments
Now the White people around the world is now seeing the sins of their forefathers. How their privilege life was given to them. Now they see GOD judgment coming down on them just like the last pharaoh of Egypt. To late to repent. 400 years is up...
Push em all into the sea!!
I thought it said “exploiters” around the world and I was going to 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Islam Grant's dignity to the weak. Black Bilal was chosen by the Messenger Muhammad to accompany him inside Kaaba and raised him above the shoulders of the nobles of Islam to call for prayer. Today, after 1440 years, the blacks are crushed under the feet of the Statue of Liberty
Explorers. Code word for harbingers of genocide
'In the annals of the Jewish people, Chmielnicki is branded as 'Chmiel the Wicked,' one of the most sinister oppressors of the Jews of all generations' A killer of tens of thousands of Jews with a revered national monument in the center of Kyiv Ukraine
Destroying history is disgusting.
Ha! Christopher Columbus kissing the pavement of the new land he just found.
owillis 'Explorers'
'Reassessed'? This is not a reassessment but mindless rage and destruction.
They are ugly reminders of the bad parts of the past. I couldn't care either way but usually it's not best to forget past mistakes.
Libya right now.
Not just confederate statues. Those idiots tore down a statue of a man who fought against slavery in philly 🤦🏻♂️
Who do you blame when the statues are all gone? Completely ignorant individuals. Can't fix STUPID. Vote Trump 2020!
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Think of it as the HimToo movement.
bindiatthebeach the racist construction of history being rejected globally...*fixed*
Stupidity through ignorance.
Disgusting!
Good! We don't need that bullshit
Yes, erase history. The next time I hear anyone complain about '300 years of slavery' I will tell them slavery never happened.
I do not know, it is part of history, lowering the statues does not change it, on the contrary, countries without memory are condemned to repeat their history. totally personal opinion.
They should make confederate toilets!
When will mount Rushmore be defaced
History not black history .leave well enough alone you fools ..you won your freedom but it looks like no one has told you that yet. So start acting like you are glad to be an American. You don't hear the Chinese complaining or the true Americans only the African American complain
hmm i hope i get strong nose like him :V
The far left's thirst for chaos, remains unquenched, as they continue to erase history. Church and Bible burning expected to be their next target, with sights set on slaughtering of Christians, as their ultimate goal. (There, I fixed your headline)
Just like ISIS.
don't expect Saint Petersburg, Russia, to be torn down. It was after all built on the slave labor of tens of thousands of workers. I 'd like to see the anti capitalists and statue- destroyers get their asses kicked by the Russian police
Let’s change all history! Terrible. This goes right to Pelosi’s new desire to take down about 10 statues.
South Dakota’s Obama statue.. someone better guard it closely. When this gets out of control they are ALL coming down.a
Does it seem odd to you that the people carrying out these actions seem to be mostly white young liberals. Very few black folks in his crowd
ALL LIVES MATTER
ANIMALS
JonLemire Good!
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Let’s ban RAP music... it condones cop killing, is racial, uses the N-word. Why isnt that talked about? Let remove “race/ethnicity” of all forms... let’s be one race. You guys like this boxes though? The left doesn’t want too!
Great. They had no right to enslave people. Just because they won a war or they had the bigger gun.that was and still the jungle law.
Now do Grant!
Release this!
Stupid statues, always telling me what to do. I’ll show them. Don Quixote was ahead of his time.
Explorers🤣
Take them down, preserve them, tell their stories or stand by and watch them be destroyed.
And statues of abolitionists like Matthias Baldwin...
Fragility is at an all time high.
That is it destroy Our History, The Left is willing to destroy anything they can just to appease the Demonstrators. and not the real Demonstrators but the rioters
I hate to repeat myself, but they are protesting Western Civilization.
Wanton destruction of property is still part of the anarchist's playbook.
Taliban behavior. It’s atrocious.
JonLemire these are sick sick people. I am sick and tired of this and all those that are bending over to the mob. I could NOT care less what statues have been erected I do NOT care if you like them or not. You can bet 99% of THEM never had stopped and READ them. I am SICK OF THE LEFT
newschannelnine what happens 100 years from now if BlackLivesMatter wins autonomy for their movement. when all people are treated equally becomes main street. will people decide that the message of black lives matter first was racist? if so, will we then destroy all history of movement? no.
ClancyReports Will they ever go after the present statues of imperialism?
If you don't like it, down it comes.
We should just tear every statue down in the world except for statues of Jesus. All people have flaws and all people have made mistakes, so if we dig we can make cases to tear them all down. We should also rename all streets and buildings named after people while we’re at it.
Those who are doing now what those guys were doing then are feeling a bit upset, visibly. It seems they fear they might be next. We learned The Almighty feeds even the little birds, but we little birds are being caged, beaten, squeezed to death by almighty 21st cent. slavers...
We need to cancel Columbus Day too.
Here in Newfoundland we have many family names .. White is one of those names. Are we going to rename all the White’s Lanes on the Island?
Just wait until they come for the religious statues.
The Taliban tore down statues when they took over too.
The full history of these people need to be told. Why are slave traders and anti-America confederate soldiers honored. When we have so many great American figures in history. Columbus sold children as sex slaves to his men. Documented that girls 9-10 were in high demand.
It's not a movement,a discussion. It's a mob deciding for everyone what monuments we have,what we watch,what we say.
“Explorers” I doubt there are any statues of simple “explorers” who’ve been targeted. Stop it. Look, if ppl want to be a white supremacist an honor your white supremacist idols, they should do it in their own homes. Don’t force the public to look at it or accept it.
you're just increasing the hatred by doing so
Since we are now destroying statues and books of slave traders: let's burn the books of the most successful slave trader (more than a billion followers atm) in history. muhammed Quran
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Memories are visions of the past. Half the protesters never knew most statues or monuments existed. Do man on the streets and ask the question. Minority of thugs controlling America.
I love where they were interviewing the people pulling statues down and no one could answer who the statue even was. lol, I knew that was going to be the answer as soon as the question was asked. 😁
It's not reassessed, they are used as a way to grand stand & virtue signal History, like today is complex. It's not black & white, no one was perfect & the environment/era influenced them. A monument or a statue is used as a mark in history to represent a incident or achievement
Democrats started with the Hindus
But the statue of Lenin in Seattle is in great shape
Not Mao though, curiously
Imagine how hard you have to look for someone to blame when you find yourself blaming a piece of metal depicting a guy that died 200+ years ago.
The language used in media reports is so interesting and leading: 'targeting' or in many other publications: 'attacking'; 'defacing'; 'vandalising' how about... re-inscribing, engaging with history? My take here:
It only takes a spark?
Can we talk about Christopher Columbus and why Columbus Day shouldn't be noted anymore?
newschannelnine If take down statues and flags then you better take down all of them include everything that has to do with MLK like street signs and then take all history and books out of school. If going to do it go all the way so it covers everyone that it bothers.
The world is changing...
Slippery slope here we come!
If you’re mad about this I have something to tell you about yourself
There’s a statue of Queen Victoria here, that we’ve been eyeing for years.
If there any statues of this guy around, guard them in case the flat-earthers decide to reciprocate in kind.
Always talking about brown and black people having a problem in America Indians from India never have a problem. Family Values / Education
Wrong, just wrong!
Oh boy. This will be interesting in North Central WV, birthplace of Stonewall Jackson. Stonewall Jackson Resort, Stonewall Jackson State Park, etc.
they topple statues today, they will kill live human beings tomorrow.
Abraham Lincoln...
I’m all for it. Especially Confederate leaders and Columbus
Hmmmm 🤔
Let's just tear down everything, and pretend history never happened... What could go wrong... 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
I understand statues and paintings of journalists are next.
And Ghandi...
But Lenin still stands......smh
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