Preparations to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims arriving in the New World were in full swing in Plymouth, Massachusetts. But then residents woke up to find that the beloved landmarks that make their city special had been vandalized.William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on American land, was found on Monday to be covered with red graffiti.according to CNN affiliate WBZ.
"We are saddened and sickened by the recent vandalism in our historic town," Plymouth Town Manager Melissa Arrighi tweeted."We will begin clean up as soon as possible and the police are investigating." Peter Sullivan, a resident of Plymouth, discovered the graffiti on Plymouth Rock while walking around the Pilgrim Memorial State Park."They vandalized everything. All the statues, monuments. These people went around town all night and did all kinds of damage," Sullivan told CNN. He noted it's not the first time.
Four artworks in the shape of scallop shells were also vandalized, according to the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce. The shells were a project by the Chamber to celebrate the upcoming anniversary. The shells have already been cleaned by Plymouth Department of Public Works, according to the Chamber, which added that anyone with information reach out to police.
Low education
Everyone is missing the big picture here. Look past the rock, the vandalism, and read the message: 508 MOF. MOF means: Metal organic framework. They're referring to filters sucking the CO2 from the atmosphere.
Get that red paint off. What does it say?
Because of the jumbled unreadable squalls I’m guessing it was the Pennsylvania Ave Dips! West side MAGAngstas...
1619.
rlly tho who tf does something like this? same thing pisses me off when i see spray paint and shit at state parks
So sad.
You know, who cares? It’ll wash off and at the end of the day, it is just a rock, that we, humans, gave meaning to.
This is disgusting!
Who did mess like that
I don’t know why people are so butt hurt by this stupid shit! Has anyone stopped and thought how damn offensive those damn land marks are to Native Americans I bet not
Good
A friend told me he once peed on it. It is just a rock. I've been there and wondered how they picked that random rock.
Liberals...
Symbolic.🙄
Such an unnecessary thing to do.
A result of America's history of sexism and racism fuel by power, control and greed, which produced capitalism by any means necessary!
You can thank this generation of mindless social media junkies for this. They're quickly changing my view on after birth abortion... 20-30 years after.
People are trash
Omg
We need to cut it out with glorifying a rock because it distracts from the real story that these white imperialists found the rock when they came here to wage war. They took the land that the rock is on and killed all of the people who lived here first.
There is domestic sentiment against This Nation, America. In some cases reform satisfying community demands is no repair. The only reparations, in some cases, is Justice. May vandals of Country be discovered in confinement of prison.
Are we going to forget America was already named by the indigenous people ? My ancestors told us about it. How come no one uses its true name?
Why do they still sell spray paint? Who uses it besides graffiti artists? Just wondering.
Watch the movie “Idiocracy”, that’s where we’ve landed.
Did CNN incite that?
Only some communist, liberal kid, would do something so disrespectful. Looks like somebody’s parents didn’t discipline enough.
Ppl don’t respect each other and I’m suppose to be surprised that they didn’t respect a historical ROCK?
Weasels. What does it say?
Sorry to hear this has happened. I'm in Plymouth UK and i know the 400 celebrations are a priority to our city this year, so it's a shame that someone feels the need to express themselves in this negative, unconstructive manner, on your adopted landmark but will wash off no doubt
Pilgrims = invaders 💀
🖕🏾 That rock
Sad
John: Morning Alisyn, Happy Presidents’ Day! What’s on the news for today ? Alisyn: This rock likes Trump and I’m offended!
Lol, u want justice thieving pilgrims?
And this is why we can’t have anything nice.
The land was ours before we were the land’s?
The youth of today are so disrespectful. Is this what they learn in school?
Maybe they were radicalized by CNN.
Definitely a liberal. They hate America. Hope they find the little SOB and put his ass in jail. FOREVER. Liberals are beginning to push too far. Keep it up and they'll find themselves in a civil war.
Libs: rock and history is problematic 42069
'Deplorable' springs to mind.
It’s not just a boulder it’s a Rock!!!
How unAmerican, that's where this country is going, keep letting in ppl that do not respect our country!!!
Despicable and disgusting. FightAgainstHate
Nobody cares
I'd reply but afraid its fake news
I’ve seen bigger boondies
humans PLAGUE OF THE PLANET WASTE OF AIR HOPES KARMA BITES YOU VICIOUSLY
pretty sure that'll wash off
These days with all the vandalism and disrespect you’d think they would hire a security guard!
Smh liberals
Really 🤔🤔
We didn’t paint on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock painted on us!
Wow adds a nice new wrinkle to the worst school field trip ever
Anyone who is bothered by this needs to get fucked. It’s a rock.
U do know it’s not the real fukn rock right. Just a symbol and has been thru this shit before. It’s a fukn rock
The socialist *elites*strike again.😜🤡
surprised this hasn't happened earlier
I’m sure Native Americans are upset about it
Wasn't the inscription from 1620 technically 'graffiti?'
It's a rock..it says 'hi.. new in town..we have measles, influenza, smallpox and syphilis and..best part we are here to take your land, rape and kill you, then replace you with slaves from Africa. Until we need the Chinese for the railroad..wow..nice rock.'
It should be legal to publicly behead the kids that did this.
Who does it shock? I guess no one cause no one gives a damn about history.
Inscription is just a fancy word for graffiti. It's just a go over, but you gotta respect the writers, man.
Plymouth Rock is a myth. Like Betsy Ross and her flag.
People are all worked up over a painted ROCK, yet no one seems to care that Trump is DESTROYING sacred Native American burial grounds in order to put his damned fence up. You know... that fence that MEXICO was gonna pay for!
Nothing is sacred anymore😞
They should place armed guards to protect the rock, anyone who tries to harm the rock should be stopped with deadly force if necessary
That’s sad!
Great! Just in time for Black History Month... POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Looks better imo
Nothing but scum bags. I weep for the future. No respect for anything.
Truthfully.... biggest waste of time visiting this tiny rock. The pioneer village nearby is golden though.
Oh no. So disrespectful.
I'm sure who did that, doesn't have an ounce of brain and was late for intelligence distribution.....😠👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Drunken idiots spray painted a rock while the lackey government worker played candy crush. Don’t wake it a story with so many layers of 24 hour cable news importance (I know nothing about the worker just my imagination)
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Who cares fuck that rock
Vandalised If that was on a wall in NY it would be art
Children, young adults, in my opinion have not been taught morals, values, or respect. Yes..its just a rock..and in my town it was just an underpass that was painted by teachers and children.. a beautiful mural..ruined
And of course, people are in the comments saying this is okay because we “slaughtered the natives”
It's also probably covered with the bacteria and diseases that created a genocide. But in totally worried about a rock.
Why is this news? Plymouth Rock has been vandalized for years. It's also not where the Europeans landed; the plaque there says exactly that.
Anyone know what the vandalism was (I can't make out what it says)
Lame. They didnt even put a penis on it.
Your kind did this
The Left hate America to the core. They should voluntarily deport themselves.
Sinful!
Definitely Democrats
This has nothing to do with how someone feels about immigration but everything to do with personal integrity. It is not my right, or yours, to deface something that doesn’t belong to us. Learn to deal with it and keep your hands to yourself or stay home!!!!
Democrats hate America.
Kids with nothing better to do , they always are dumb enough to video record everything that they do , let's wait and soon someone somewhere will upload the video.
People think like their president, they dont have to obey the law, and ya know, once hes gone, everything wont go back to normal, we're fcked!!!!
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Red=blood
A great day for the pilgrims, but an atrocious day for the Native Americans....
That's definitely white people graffiti.
Don't worry they're just another liberal CNN watcher
Better than with blood which was - and still is - shed endlessly of the ancient population of the new world by the occupants
Seems like nothing is scared . May be a rock nut it's history. And the reminder of the day a tortuous sea voyage brought joy in the sight of the new world.
Comments all one needs to know about CNN’s marginal audience
That's whats up
That’s not even the real rock. Actually there was no rock, they made that up just like they made up most American history
Come on! Why would you do that?
trashy people.
No respect for anything America. This is because the Democrats and Liberals have no respect for our beautiful country.
It's just not right. Horrible people.
As it should be... also who calls them pilgrims anymore?
So?
People are jerks
Kids don't do anything without 'likes' these days. I'm sure there's a tik tok video/Instagram of it.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
I am so, so mad that someone vandalized this historical piece. There was no mean for this.. Shame on the people who done this..
Apparently white people don't like it when you take something that belongs to them and destroy it.....oh the irony. plymouthrockvandalized BlackHistoryMonth BlackLivesMatter PresidentsDay2020 PresidentsDay
Go to Cade’s Cove In the Smokies, every building has someone’s autograph in it.. Extremely sad that history does matter to vandal’s.
Apparently white people don't like it when you take something that belongs to them and destroy it.....oh the irony. plymouthrockvandalized BlackHistoryMonth BlackLivesMatter PresidentsDay2020 PresidentsDay
Sickening.
Fuck that rock
“Heritage is what we leave people when it’s no longer useful”. Jan Michael Vincent “Damnation Alley”
Happens all the time, don't need to go scaremongering about Injuns / The Left now. It'll be just fine, it's a rock after all.
The original vandal stamped 1620 into it
Once again Trump and his followers have desecrated our great country
Demacrats again.
I grew up in MA and made more than one school trip to Plymouth. Imagine being told all this hype about the rock and then seeing a shrine around a small boulder (the size of a small boulder ;-). I knew this was bullshit even when I was 7.
Only took 3 posts to tie vandalism of public monuments to Trump. You guys are lit today.
Probably the Brits.
Nice
Another example of a country losing it's moral bearings?
Disgusting
I'm sure a good power wash can clean this off, but I'm not sure the same can be said for the stain this president has left on America. Very sad times.
Soft
Not that anyone will care, but the actual site where Pilgrims landed eroded away and slipped beneath the water many years ago. Doesn’t make vandalism ok, but THAT is NOT Plymouth Rock.
Terrible. I hope they catch them .
Ben Franklin would never have let this happen when he was president
Just clean it?
Damn immigrants coming to America since 1620, we need a wall in the sea!
Figures!
Leftist loons.
Humans suck
factcheck the pilgrims didn’t land there first!
Total disgrace
I’d bet everything I own, plus my eternal soul, it wasn’t an America-loving Republican who did this.
“Send them back” “illegals” “they don’t belong here” said no NativeAmerican when they landed.... should’ve known better! Now we have 45 smh
It should be in a museum
The vandals finally gave us a reason to visit the rock.
Democrats see that rock as a symbol of America. That's why they hate it.
The red is the blood that illegals Europeans spilled from native American as they slaughtered them. Europe send their criminals and diseases to North America. The other part of the coin what they don't teach you in school.
Stop writing on the rocks guys 😂
What does the vandalism say?
Rename it punk rock
Let’s face it, there are a lot of people not so thrilled w “our” arrival.
Really? Wow!
After the pilgrims landed, spread diseases, guns, knives, then become colonies and continue to spread diseases & weapons and rape native women and genocide, bring Africa slaves, continue to genocides and rapes, murders, till present day, we got Orangeface Trump continues to hate
Welcome to 2020... The decade of the dipshits.
If your first thoughts are “liberals” or “maga people” and not “12 year olds,” you are the problem. Turn off the news and seek help. Also, the rock is a fake tourist attraction with zero historical value. Take care.
Only antifa liberals would do this
This is what ISIS does in the middle east
We've been drawing on rocks since we figured out how. Of course there is the concept of respect, which is obviously missing here. My adopted mother's family apparently sailed here on the Mayflower. Should l be offended?
A sad statement of how our country is feeling...
What did the graffiti say..
Those anti pilgrim activists are out of control. When will the government do something?
Death penalty
Find who did it & make them lick it clean!
Amazing how many posting had never seen it. The ignorance of history is astounding.
BlissTabitha Good thing the education system works so well and parents raise children with respect.
Brought on by liberal progressive anti American media.
Which represents the dis-respect of this generation
Apparently they see El Trumpo is disrespectful of our country, why should they be any different.
It’s a symbol of racism and genocide according to you so why care?
trump bloody typical
More idiots among us. Such stupid people that could graffiti this spot. Almost unbelievable. They should lock the people up who did this for a good long time so they can think about it.
Bernie Sanders supporters doing their thing.
This is why we cant have nice things
That’s so horrible! 🥺💔
I never understood tagging and hiding. Why don’t these people learn to paint and make a real statement? Maybe Bansky could be a mentor/inspiration; a where, why, how to get it done.
“We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.” Malcolm X Yes it’s a piece of history, but the significance is different for some. Not condoning it, but it’s still in a lot better shape than the Native American sacred sites that were blown up for the damn wall.
Well, one man's pilgrim is another man's terrorist.
Can't tell what it says.
Doesn’t matter if it is just a rock, it is disgraceful how little people care about things in our country.
Assholes.
10 bucks says it’s a Democrat who did that
Considering all the historical monuments and such that have been PC'd the last few years, I think this should be high on that list. Pilgrims intentionally spread diseases, raped and killed natives, shot families to death and brought slavery to this country. CelebrateWhat?
How does one “vandalize” a literal rock? Just get another one. There must be dozens other ones that were there in 1620.
Probably the genius youth we need to listen to and let vote.
The Indians complained about the same thing when we carved 1620 on it. I mean we just got there, first time in someones home and we go carving on their shit. I bet this feels about the same
Good job now get donlemon to report about it and laugh at us.
Darn Conservatives... oh, wait.
Judging by the replys on this FakeNewsCNN post, the left HATES America !!
Some people are privately celebrating this
NickI_Ramage should’ve saw it when we had the chance smh
Shame. What’s wrong with people?!
I stole the original rock long ago. This is a replica.
Bernie supporters have no class
Build that wall.
Pilgrims can eat my ass
Blame trump. We need a wall around cape cod
Well, for the 400th anniversary…right? itsbloodoftheindigenous!!!! 🙄
Under the WH madness, everything has to be red like Mao's cultural revolution. Now America follows with Trump's red cultural revolution.
Of course that will happen, who going to remember some small rock ? 🙄 atleast be as big as TheRock then I’ll understand 😂
Put them in jail for life
They landed so long ago, so it doesn't matter..
At least they could have made the graffiti look good.
Rotten kids
Oh, so it’s literally a rock.
Why this vandalism , why are so many people happy to do things like this.shame on you.
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That’s idiotic and disgraceful.
My heart goes for those who lost their lives, land and culture 💔
This is a 10 minute job for a good pressure washer.
Maybe the Native Americans did it😎
I live in Plymouth and this is after they cleaned it took some power washers and a ton of cleaners
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Why ? I understand the hate and pain caused by the Pilgrims when they came with disease, greed, and a superiority complex that would kill millions of Native Americans. So I understand.
SherwinWilliams has a product that will safely remove that graffiti, not expensive either! Everything else though is overpriced, and their mark-up is more than 300% on “emerald”. However, the company justifies this price because of their “customer service” 🙄🥱
Only a Republican would do that.
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Well you perpetuate despicable acts like this.
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The day British immigrants landed on Plymouth.
Bastards!
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