The Associated Press
Rio Arriba County Manager Tomas Campos said the statue was placed in storage for its own protection. He expects the three-member county commission to solicit public comment on what to do next with the public works project commissioned by the state in the early 1990s. Luis Peña of Espanola, an artist and computer network engineer who started a public petition last week to remove the statue permanently, said he was heartened to see it taken off display.
Elena Ortiz, who organized a protest at the site for Monday night, said many people have grown uncomfortable with the Oñate statue. By Monday evening, dozens had joined a celebratory gathering with Native American dancing and drumming outside the cultural center where demonstrators left hand prints in red paint on the empty statue pedestal.
Albuquerque city officials announced Saturday they will convene a council of community leaders and artists to consider the concerns about the public art piece as they look for “creative solutions.”
They always do this it won’t get put back up
This is sad 😥 Statues is history good and bad Lessons can be learned from them BLM All this will not change inner hearts you can bring down statues remove movies or next burn books 📚 Change comes from an inner self
Could also be placed in the garbage for our protection.
Placed in storage? It should be melted down into a tribute to a great chief.
For its own protection? ROTFLOL. OñateExpelledFromNM AGAIN!
They are treating that thing with WAY too much respect.
Would be kinda cool to re-create old battles and such with moving statues. Sad it's come to this.
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Good! People that want to erase history are wrong about this. People should not forget about history but learn to live past it for the better!
I looked it up. Not sure why this man, Onate, was honored in New Mexico as he was banished by Spain from NM for 'excessive force ' he used against Native Acoma people. Sentenced to personal servitude. (This is back when NM was a part of Mexico/Spain.)
Those who erase history will only repeat it
Instead , Lets remove the protestors and put them in storage.
🔥 it ! Juan De Onate was a rapist and mass murderer
Smart move
More statues of people taking selfies with fishy face because that will look cool for a hundred years
Why dont we keep these statues that represent our actual history and just add a new plaque describing the good and bad these guys represented. History should not be sterilized
Spanish people came to America = North and South America, and they spread their religion, culture, etc. How do they feel about all of this?. Because they feel very proud of the conquer 🤔 all the genocide, they celebrate it every year under the name of 'Hispanic Day'.
So when are we doing Mona Lisa and the statue of David?
Snowflakes. Remember these situations when you vote this November. You want ALL streets renamed, statues removed, history books edited, then vote with the snowflake Demtards.
Say what you want! Does the term CONQUISTADOR give you a clue? Seven Cities of Cibola GOLD, KILL, TAKE !?
The Destruction of Statues. I consider it an act idiocy of idiots. Like the Terrorist who blew up the Buddhist Sculptured and Carved into a Mountain face. Destroying Art and History. What's next Mount Rushmore.
Taking it down will not erase history. Quite the opposite - I'd never head of Juan de Oñate until now. I'm not endorsing the decision to take it down - just noting this fact.
and the baphomet statue is still up. lol BLM yeah but you rather waste your time trying to take down such statues yet satanic and freemason places exist in the same country? HHHHHHH you make me laugh
Another murderious bunch of gold digger enslavement!
disgusting !
Some statues glorify slavery and bondage of black people they must be destroyed. You can not make a statue of someone who killed and enslaved your grandparents.
What’s this world coming to! This is truly pitiful!! Has nothing to do with race just history
CanYouSee They had to put the statue into protective custody for it's own safety from criminal activity promoted by hate propaganda from news media outlets like CNN.
They store a statue for security, and put children in cages. Sick fucks.
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Or you could just properly secure the area to prevent lawless vandalism by mindless mobs.
That is just sad.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Are we letting these people take over. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy I don’t get it
can the people who are against the statue explain what the statue has done to you? From what I have seen it has not hurt any of you.
Imagine protesting this because of your Spanish heritage. Lol surprise! The Spaniards were genocidal racist maniacs
Relics of slavery/racism are treated better than human life.💔
I thought this was all about police brutality
Why do so many people wanna protect historically racist and bloodthirsty monsters? Why can’t we actually put statues up of people who have genuinely done great things? What about all the women in science who had their work stolen? Why not people who inspire growth and change
Democrats having to protect stuff from Democrats is peak progressivism.💁🏼♂️
Certain statues may need private venues.
This is, all getting to be pretty...
Orwell u we’re right!😢
Idiots
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