Posted on 10/09/2017 7:04:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Three men reportedly vandalized a statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago Saturday.
According to the Chicago Tribune, a bystander saw three males vandalizing the European explorer’s effigy, causing them to flee. However, “one tumbled off his bike and was held by the witness until Monroe District police officers got there and placed the 30-year-old under arrest, police said.”
Columbus Day is set to be celebrated on Monday, and many leftists see the holiday as offensive.
Some left-wing “antifascist” activists have decided to deface statues of Christopher Columbus this weekend to protest his holiday. It is unclear if these men were part of an antifa group.
A statue of Columbus in Central Park is being watched by the NYPD to for possible vandals.
Columbus, an Italian explorer, discovered the Americas and began large scale European settlement of the New World. Many see Columbus as a negative figure in history due to his alleged mistreatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas. Some have even taken to celebrating “Indigenous People’s Day” on Columbus Day.
Is this a comedy of some sort? I thought I read here on Sunday that they had armed guards protecting it 24 - 7.
Hey, looka dat! Obunga moved on up to a man’s bike! Hooooweee!
You’re probably mixing up Chicago and New York City.
What we really need is an indigenous people statue with public wi-fi an electrical outlets nearby.
And a porta-potti and coffee bar.
Oooops! My bad! That was Central Park that had the guards. Chicago doesn’t give a bleep....except for that lone citizen who apprehended the perp who fell of his ridye, and held him until the gendarmes arrived.
WE SHOULD POINT OUT THE FAILINGS OF INDIANS IMMIGRATION BY ALLOWING OPEN BORDERS AND UNCHECKED IMMIGRATION. RESULT BEING THE INDIAN CULTURE WHIPPED OUT.
Chicago?
The city council will pass a resolution to take down the statue of Columbus and raise one to honor the three brave heroes who dared to object to a statue of a genocidist, racist and slaver.
With zero description of the perps, we can only assume it was Chicago’s homey, Zero.
Please, just who were these indigenous people? Everyone came from somewhere else.
Any one ask the brain-trust in CA how there could be ‘indigenous people’, if we all evolved and immigrated out of Africa/cradle-of-the-ME?? /s
FYI......BTTP
Thanks for pinging me about this article. It looks like my worse expectations came true. This is what I posted about this Columbus statue before Columbus Day arrived. It will give the Freepers who read this article a little background. I hope the statue is quickly cleaned up. It’s really a nice one set in a lovely little park:
Right off the UIC (Univ. of IL at Chicago) campus, in a little park located in what remains of the Little Italy neighborhood adjacent to the campus, is a beautiful statue of Columbus centered in a small circular fountain pool. I used to drive over there and park my car on the small dead end street leading up to the park to eat my lunch while looking at the lovely fountain. I worked at UIC then.
There are still architecturally beautiful row homes lining the park on one side where wealthy Italians lived (or still live). On the other side of the park is the beginning of the south side ghettos, where black gangs hang out; however they never cross over the invisible line in the park where the Italians hold sway, as the neighborhood still has a considerable amount of Italian mafia members as residents, and the black gangs don’t want to mess with them for fear of big-time retaliation by these tough Italians in the hood. So it’s (pardon the expression) a Mexican standoff (or should I say Italian).
I fear for that wonderful Columbus statue’s existence, as the UIC campus and local community communist/pinko/fascist/Dem/leftist/socialist morons are right there next to the park, and will undoubtedly target it for attack.
I live in Florida now (thank goodness) but I retired from working at UIC some years back and still have a strong affinity for Chicago’s old ethnic neighborhoods with their churches and monuments and general architecture that make Chicago such a fascinating city in spite of its corrupt politician created troubles.
It’s sad what is happening to Chicago under Obama’s butt boy Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s destructive regime. And the police force there has been totally neutered by the City’s politics; their hands are tied. Watching the ruin of the historically rich City of Chicago by a bunch of socialist slimeballs and their ideology of destruction is most upsetting.
Thanks for pinging me about this article. It looks like my worse expectations came true. This is what I posted about this Columbus statue before Columbus Day arrived. It will give the Freepers who read this article a little background. I hope the statue is quickly cleaned up. It’s really a nice one set in a lovely little park:
Right off the UIC (Univ. of IL at Chicago) campus, in a little park located in what remains of the Little Italy neighborhood adjacent to the campus, is a beautiful statue of Columbus centered in a small circular fountain pool. I used to drive over there and park my car on the small dead end street leading up to the park to eat my lunch while looking at the lovely fountain. I worked at UIC then.
There are still architecturally beautiful row homes lining the park on one side where wealthy Italians lived (or still live). On the other side of the park is the beginning of the south side ghettos, where black gangs hang out; however they never cross over the invisible line in the park where the Italians hold sway, as the neighborhood still has a considerable amount of Italian mafia members as residents, and the black gangs don’t want to mess with them for fear of big-time retaliation by these tough Italians in the hood. So it’s (pardon the expression) a Mexican standoff (or should I say Italian).
I fear for that wonderful Columbus statue’s existence, as the UIC campus and local community communist/pinko/fascist/Dem/leftist/socialist morons are right there next to the park, and will undoubtedly target it for attack.
I live in Florida now (thank goodness) but I retired from working at UIC some years back and still have a strong affinity for Chicago’s old ethnic neighborhoods with their churches and monuments and general architecture that make Chicago such a fascinating city in spite of its corrupt politician created troubles.
It’s sad what is happening to Chicago under Obama’s butt boy Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s destructive regime. And the police force there has been totally neutered by the City’s politics; their hands are tied. Watching the ruin of the historically rich City of Chicago by a bunch of socialist slimeballs and their ideology of destruction is most upsetting.
Oops, accidental double post.
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