Activists Throw Red Paint On Face Of Christopher Columbus Statue

Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

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Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.
Just goes to show how ignorant and superficial people can be. I mean really, what kind of an idiot judges historical events and people in a modern context? You have to be extra stupid to think you're making a difference or doing anything important....or even being honest.
 
Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

More: Political Activists Throw Blood Back In Christopher Columbus' Face

Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.
Just goes to show how ignorant and superficial people can be. I mean really, what kind of an idiot judges historical events and people in a modern context? And you have to be extra stupid to think you're making a difference or doing anything important.


So you want all Europeans to go back to Europe?? Now who's the ignorant one, bigot?
 
would anyone be surprised when the day comes and we have a few Obama statues in blue states, and they are all protected by a bullet/stain proof shield?
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I agree, it looks just like pile of shit.
 
Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

More: Political Activists Throw Blood Back In Christopher Columbus' Face

Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.
Just goes to show how ignorant and superficial people can be. I mean really, what kind of an idiot judges historical events and people in a modern context? And you have to be extra stupid to think you're making a difference or doing anything important.


So you want all Europeans to go back to Europe?? Now who's the ignorant one, bigot?
Maybe you're just a little too slow to understand the post.
 
If you guys want to remove ever statue, monument, and display of ever historic figure who was not prefect you will have to remove them all. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves I guess they need to come off Mount Rushmore.
 
Which 15th century people were not racists? What group, tribe, ethnicity, nationality, or race didn't regard themselves as superior to everyone else?
 
Indications are that the Rose Kennedy memorial and the memorial to the Marines who were killed in the Beriut bombing were also defaced so you can chalk it up to the usual prog idiots.
 
we also
i propose we make a statue of Louis Ferretface Ferrekron and leave it wide open to the public to throw paint, tomatoes, or even crap on it.

I nominate George W. Bush for that honor.
we also need a statue of Al Sharpton for the public to do what they please to it.

Gee, why are all your choices black people?
no, not all,just those two, easily two very hated blacks. but i do have white ones too that need to have paint thrown at them.
 
we also
i propose we make a statue of Louis Ferretface Ferrekron and leave it wide open to the public to throw paint, tomatoes, or even crap on it.

I nominate George W. Bush for that honor.
we also need a statue of Al Sharpton for the public to do what they please to it.

Gee, why are all your choices black people?
but I do like Jesse Jackson. got plenty of laughs from him over the years.
 
we also
i propose we make a statue of Louis Ferretface Ferrekron and leave it wide open to the public to throw paint, tomatoes, or even crap on it.

I nominate George W. Bush for that honor.
we also need a statue of Al Sharpton for the public to do what they please to it.

Gee, why are all your choices black people?
no, not all,just those two, easily two very hated blacks. but i do have white ones too that need to have paint thrown at them.

Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Pelosi, Reid, Soros....
 

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