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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Think we can get them to take the statue of Lenin down in Seattle?
Don’t be ridiculous!
I am confused as to what Columbus has to do with supposed black racism
Their revolution continues
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ANd the national GOP are right on board even wanting to rename military bases.
We stand alone.
Um...I think it’s cause Columbus was white
No, the prize is not the Founding Fathers’ monuments, but their legacy. The Constitution.
No hell no and no fn way
The American Revolution was performed with barely 1/10 of the population of the colonies. Fundamental transformation could occur without a shot being fired.
Conservatives are submissive and polite, too busy working hard and playing hard to have the desire to fight a battle with a chance of losing everything.. As long as the ATM keeps working and the groceries keep flowing there will be no pushback from the right, no one wants to be branded a racist or fascist.
Like Rush said "we are all talk" ( I swear he was almost going to name FR by name and stopped himself )
ALL of elected AND appointed clapped like trained seals for an ineligible Kenyan/British subject/Indonesian non-natural born citizen on Usurpation Day.
The Constitution is an illusion.
their heros like George Floyd and Rodney King, Michael Brown,.... true Social Justice Warriors
Columbus was not a savior, as such.
He was the seed, the symbol, of a glorious conquest.
That is, the European conquest of the world, 1492-today, roughly. Thats the most important fact of history of the last 500 years. And the condition of life for every human being alive today was determined by that, from broad population-level questions of existence, to the tiniest detail.
That nearly all the world wears pants, for one tiny, tiny thing. The first thing an anti-Colombian should do, I think, is put on a g-string, loin cloth or lava-lava.
The US situation is just one case of this “European explosion”.
Columbus was the father of us all, pretty much, outside of Europe.
However people are being killed and attacked now. I'm not sure this “it's okay to kill and attack conservatives” is going to last.
Cutting off our speech too? This is not good. People will have their say either through legit debate or speech or through other ways.. I don't want to see it, but can you tell me that this is not fostering another Oklahoma City times ten? Remember that was done as a reaction to Ruby Ridge and Waco being swept under the carpet.
That's my fear. A few loons will let loose.
yeah sure, I’ll just mail in my ballot, no worries, the Electoral College will save us, for maybe one more cycle as the rats and roaches flee the cities and fill up the flyover states
I am in the Portland Oregon area, to put a Trump sticker on my truck would be suicide
Italian Americans, take note. This is your people they’re insulting.
This is not going to keep going without a serious reaction and not from people who care about ATMs and Netflix.
that is what they are hoping for, praying for, it wouldn't surprise me if they created a false flag, all they would need to do is find someone who posted something negative on social media, grab him, shoot him, and then go shoot up a protest, prop him up, and say "look what this guy did" (like vegas)
I hear ya, I know which side I’m on.
I am in the Portland Oregon area, to put a Trump sticker on my truck would be suicide
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Put it on a magnetic sheet and remove when not in use. Hardware stores sell magnetic vent covers for HVAC registers.
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