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Christopher Columbus statue to be removed from California Capitol at direction of top Democrats (BREAKING)
Sacramento Bee ^ | 06/16/20 | MATT KRISTOFFERSEN

Posted on 06/16/2020 7:50:54 PM PDT by hapnHal

Top California lawmakers on Tuesday ordered the removal of a marble sculpture depicting explorer Christopher Columbus and his patron, Queen Isabella, from the Capitol Rotunda.

The statue has been in the Capitol for more than a century. Top lawmakers called for its removal a day after a statue showing white settler John Sutter was taken down in front of the Sacramento hospital that bears his name.“Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing historical figure given the deadly impact his arrival in this hemisphere had on indigenous populations.

The continued presence of this statue in California’s Capitol, where it has been since 1883, is completely out of place today,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement.

The statement was signed by Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, and Assembly Rules Committee Chairman Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova.

The removal of the statue shows that Columbus “will no longer be glorified,” said Ida Rodriguez, a member of the Statewide Coalition Against Racist Symbols.

Having Christopher Columbus in such a prominent part of the Capitol makes the explorer seem like a “savior,” she said — when, in fact, “that’s not who he is.”At the end of the legislative session, Queen Isabella’s crown is a target for celebratory pennies. And to the baron who financed the statue in the late 1800s, it was a testament to Columbus’ visions of “marvelous lands beyond the setting sun.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anthonyrendon; braking; california; christophercolumbus; hapnhal; idarodriguez; johnsutter; kencooley; lakewood; localnews; queenisabella; ranchocordova; sacramento; sandiego; sidebarabuse; toniatkins
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To: hapnHal

I know! They’ll remove Columbus and put up a statue of Margaret Sanger ... Famous explorers are bad, but racist eugenicists/abortionists are good!


41 posted on 06/16/2020 9:10:00 PM PDT by edh
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To: Lurkinanloomin

EXACTLY!! She started this crap more so since she is a never Trumper. Since she is first generation American is why I support seeing second generation Americans run for political office and not first.


42 posted on 06/16/2020 9:10:41 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: hapnHal; dp0622

It’s amazing how people are freaking over memorials to a man who didn’t even set foot on the current US mainland.


43 posted on 06/16/2020 9:14:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Licensed-To-Carry

Nikki was the first governor to order statues to be removed and the Confederate Flag. Give then an inch well you should know.


44 posted on 06/16/2020 9:18:25 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Did she actually scrap the 1st Virginia flag from the capitol grounds, or merely move it from the top of the capitol dome?


45 posted on 06/16/2020 9:19:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BY taking it down and banishing it from Capital grounds she legitimized the erasure of history.


46 posted on 06/16/2020 9:27:53 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Got an idea. How about this........

Declare the Capitol Rotunda a CHOP zone.


47 posted on 06/16/2020 9:32:34 PM PDT by hapnHal
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Did she actually scrap the 1st Virginia flag from the capitol grounds, or merely move it from the top of the capitol dome?
………………

Nimrat was the Goobernor of South Carolina.


48 posted on 06/16/2020 9:32:46 PM PDT by Skybird (TRUMP / PENCE 2020-PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT-LEADERSHIP IN ACTION !!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Did she actually scrap the 1st Virginia flag from the capitol grounds, or merely move it from the top of the capitol dome?

I don't know about the 1st, but the 28th is here in Minnesota and we're never giving it back.

49 posted on 06/16/2020 9:45:00 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber1
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To: hapnHal

I wasn’t aware that John Sutter was a real person and Sutter’s Mill actually existed.

I know the Dan Fogelberg song “Sutter’s Mill” and assumed it was fiction.

Wow.


50 posted on 06/16/2020 9:55:44 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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To: Zeroisanumber1

Confederate flag — I’m just calling it what it was originally called, IIRC.


51 posted on 06/16/2020 10:03:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: Skybird

Yeah, I used a lower case “c” for capitol because I was talkin’ about the frickin’ capitol building in frickin’ Charleston!


52 posted on 06/16/2020 10:04:41 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: snarkytart
Wow, I didn't know about that one. That was the definition of stupid. want nothing to do with idiots like that silly civil guard or proud boys. Makes conservatives look bad IMO. Not the kind of push back I endorse. almost like it was staged and someone who wasnt in on it went to far with it

what a nightmare

53 posted on 06/16/2020 10:14:18 PM PDT by KTM rider (why do I feel like I am living in a dystopian science fiction novel watching Liberty get defeated)
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To: KTM rider

didn’t know about what?

At least Proud Boys fight back, and they were onto Antifa in 2016. What conservatives are fighting? yea thought so.


54 posted on 06/16/2020 10:19:33 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: KTM rider

"I am in the Portland Oregon area, to put a Trump sticker on my truck would be suicide"

I got a blue line sticker on the back of my vehicle. With the blue being reflective for better visibility. And it's on a white vehicle which makes the black bars above and below the blue line and the whole sticker all the more eye catching. I live in the suburbs but the city line is not to far away and them no good freaks been rioting in my city for the last 2 or 3 weeks now. I got a family member that's a police officer and I'm not about to take that sticker off my car. I am not gonna bend to the will of domestic terrorists in my city.

I try to avoid running down into the city as much as possible with that "I support the police" sticker on my car, but tonight I had to run down in real bad enemy territory. But it was raining tonight. So I figure I didn't have a problem because them no goods didn't wanna get their little selves wet in the rain and stayed inside tonight. I'm not kidding. I am not taking that sticker off my car. What ever happens is whatever happens.

If everybody who actually appreciates the society of law and order that they live in would stand up and show their support for the police the bad guys would see that they are outnumbered and shut up and fade into the background. But no one wants to offer risk to themselves by showing support. They just want the police to take all the risk and allow themselves to be contented with that while they watch their America they love go down in flames. Can you imagine if you were driving down the street and you saw cars left and right and everywhere with blue line stickers on their cars what a signal that would send to these piece's of crap who are trying to overturn our society?

55 posted on 06/16/2020 10:24:29 PM PDT by BP1001
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To: BP1001
Right on !

I like it, I'm all talk still, too old to fight hand to hand anymore, they will have to push more to get me to go activist, but I am on the side of LE for sure

56 posted on 06/16/2020 10:32:03 PM PDT by KTM rider (why do I feel like I am living in a dystopian science fiction novel watching Liberty get defeated)
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To: hapnHal

Way to piss off Italian voters. They will let the Democrat/Commies/Hispanic extremists know that they VOTE in November.


57 posted on 06/16/2020 11:50:07 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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To: Jonty30
Dolly Parton is no white and Southern.
58 posted on 06/17/2020 12:28:00 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: hapnHal

Thinking the demonrats want to replace these statues with the statues of Marx and Lenin that were knocked down in Russia.


59 posted on 06/17/2020 12:30:16 AM PDT by wolfman
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

Yes. Sutter has an interesting and tragic story and his life is part of what once was part of the ‘Story of the Americans’.


60 posted on 06/17/2020 12:31:45 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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