Posted on 04/02/2018 7:23:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot was legal.
Now it's on the verge of another first.
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
"Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century.
Peters, who heads the Arcata-based Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, called McKinley a proponent of "settler colonialism" that "savaged, raped and killed."
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against their very existence.
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Exactly!
“Mount Rushmore is on the list......”
I though we were going to see the articulate Negro’s face up there.
is the statue of Lenin still standing in Seattle?
hmmm. Siberians engaged in rape, slavery, infanticide, thievery and revenge-murder - which is why we called them ‘savages’. Shall we destroy every symbol of them, also?
Didn’t know there were any..........................
Probably. Never been there..........................
there’s quite a few of them. Not that they ever bothered anyone because ‘normal’ people recognize them for what they are - symbols of a world long gone and conquered by the march of civilizational advancements
Yeah - it’s still there...
American Taliban at work. Get ready for name changes to Indiana, Indianapolis, any entity with tribal names, sports teams, ad infinitum.
Well, I’m averse to Indian casinos, so bulldoze all them dam Indian casinos. That’ll shut up Chief BigMouth!
Their goal is to destroy the Constitution. Step by step, they’re workng their way toward the founding fathers. They’ll eventually attack the founding fathers then claim the Constitution is illegitimate because of who created it.
“They” being leftists in general, not specifically Indians.
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