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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Their revolution continues
They will put up more meaningful statues, like Dolly Parton and movie stars. Liberal heroes.
The SICK communist DEMOCRATS are out to destroy America!!
VOTE DEM OUT!
Guess the people in California support this
Don’t forget that Nikki Haley started this.
What they really want is the Washington Monument. I think maybe that’s the prize to them.
No. Not all. But this communist insurgency is coming to a town near you and you and you. We either fight or roll over with a whimper.
Notice how the governor’s name, (Newsom) is conspicuously absent from this atrocity?? You can bet this is not happening without his buy-in.
Yep, that’s the big one.
Renaming the Capital will follow shortly and the legacy of the founders will be erased.
soon Sacramento will look like the other ‘enlightened cities’ - with marble and stone statues of our heritage and history replaced with this:
https://twitter.com/TheDonaldNews/status/1273041510200602625
10 years ago, I used to joke that I better visit certain tourist sites soon, before the Taliban took them down.
I used to say that about Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty.
My friends thought I was being paranoid, dramatic or just plain silly.
Now, I know there is a danger that some of our world famous American sites could indeed be brought down, not necessarily by the Muslims as I was predicting, but by our own American citizens, who have rejected the idea of America being something good, precious and invaluable.
It may already be too late to experience Broadway theaters in New York. Some of their world famous restaurants have closed due to he virus.
Sr. Antonio Rendon and Sra. Rodriguez are acting righteous about a guy who was working for the King of Spain?
Leading to the establishment of their homeland, Mexico? AKA New Spain?
Really?
In Protestant built America?
The Irony is Mucho Thick
Will the medical group "Sutter Health" now be renamed?
Renaming the Capital will follow shortly and the legacy of the founders will be erased.
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Then they will erase the Constitution.
Almost already there.
Why do you keep saying this, what did Nikki Haley do?
“ They will put up more meaningful statues, like Dolly Parton and movie stars. Liberal heroes”
California?
No, it’ll be Harvey Milk, or maybe Boy George.
She started all of this history erasing in SC.
“ Then they will erase the Constitution.”
They’ve already done that.
We are at the “need a revolution” stage
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