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Italian Americans say Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is 'giving in to violence and cancel culture' by removing statues of Christopher Columbus and accuse her of 'siding with a destructive minority'
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 24 2020 | KEITH GRIFFITH

Posted on 07/25/2020 9:09:17 AM PDT by knighthawk

Italian Americans have reacted with anger after two statues of Christopher Columbus in Chicago were removed under cover of darkness in the early hours of Friday morning under the orders of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Before dawn, city crews used cranes to remove a monument in Chicago's Little Italy and a massive bronze statue in Grant Park, which were first erected at the city's first and second World's Fairs in 1893 and 1933, respectively.

Italian American community leaders say they were taken aback by Lightfoot's abrupt order to remove the statues, which Lightfoot calls a 'temporary' measure until passions cool. The Grant Park statue was at the center of violent scenes last week, when 49 police officers were injured by a mob hurling rocks and fireworks while attempting to tear the statue down.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; christophercolumbus; columbus; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; illinois; italianamericans; lorilightfoot
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1 posted on 07/25/2020 9:09:17 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

So how many of the idiots have been voting straight Rat for the past 100 years...like since they got here?

This is what they wanted, and they got it good and hard


2 posted on 07/25/2020 9:10:34 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: knighthawk

Did they vote for her?


3 posted on 07/25/2020 9:10:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk
Replacement?…

4 posted on 07/25/2020 9:11:49 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: knighthawk

Sorry, Italians. You’re white so you don’t matter.


5 posted on 07/25/2020 9:12:21 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.")
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

lol


6 posted on 07/25/2020 9:15:22 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: knighthawk

Makes ya wish Al Capone was still around!


7 posted on 07/25/2020 9:18:57 AM PDT by Dana1960
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To: Regulator

Not enough Italian-Americans left in the city to make much of a difference - the morons who put that incompetent in office mostly get their reward by seeing their kids get shot night after night.


8 posted on 07/25/2020 9:22:42 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Dana1960

If Capone et al were still around, that unter menchen would not be anywhere near City Hall.


9 posted on 07/25/2020 9:24:38 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: knighthawk
"Italian Americans say Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is 'giving in to violence and cancel culture' by removing statues of Christopher Columbus and accuse her of 'siding with a destructive minority."

Well....duh.

10 posted on 07/25/2020 9:25:26 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: knighthawk

Where is the Godfather when we need him.


11 posted on 07/25/2020 9:28:03 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: OrangeHoof; All

A shame as the great Louis Prima from New
Orleans embraced jazz-blues music, learned
from Satchmo, and Sicilians and blacks
got along well in N.O. etc

Btw in Jungle Book Louie did the great
I wanna Be Like You...and all the cool
musical instrument noises were thrown
in by Leo DeLyon, who is Jewish (and
still with us). Anti semitism, anti-
Italian, anti-European...disgraceful
these days


12 posted on 07/25/2020 9:28:23 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Stosh

Yeah, I know...they all moved to the northwest suburbs.

But when you look at the Cuomo’s and other recalcitrants, you wonder when do the remaining few get it: the Rat party stopped marketing to them years ago when they moved on to LGBTABCXYZ crap.


13 posted on 07/25/2020 9:32:01 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: aquila48
Where is the Godfather when we need him.

getting the family to vote straight 'D'

14 posted on 07/25/2020 9:32:31 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt
"Statue of Groot."

TORCH IT..! TEAR IT DOWN..!! WHY IT'S NOTHING MORE THEN A SYMBOL OF OPPRESSION, AGGRESSION AND MASCULINITY...!!! Grrrr..(spit,spit).

15 posted on 07/25/2020 9:37:57 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: knighthawk

Who voted for that thing?


16 posted on 07/25/2020 9:57:18 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: knighthawk

She knows that blacks are killing blacks and has chosen to do nothing and say nothing. But this thing has taken down statues of Columbus, sending the implicit message “Columbus (Whitey) did this to you. We hate him! Keep killing each other!”


17 posted on 07/25/2020 10:08:28 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: knighthawk

So Mayor Beetlejuice comes up with the notion that gangbangers lives matter and if she takes down the Columbus statue to dishonor Italian American heritage, gangbanging blacks will stop killing other blacks in her city


18 posted on 07/25/2020 10:19:56 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: knighthawk

If Joey Lombardo and his “family” were till running the West Side of Chicago, Lighthead would be floating face down in Lake Michigan.


19 posted on 07/25/2020 10:22:27 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: aquila48

Dig up San Giancana and let him clean up things, Chicago style, Old School, the Geeters with the Heaters.


20 posted on 07/25/2020 10:28:08 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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