Posted on 07/05/2020 7:08:02 AM PDT by Nextrush
A crowd of shouting protesters yanked down the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy, dragged it to the edge of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and rolled it with a splash into the water as fireworks went off around the city on the night of the Fourth of July.
Dedicated in 1984, the statue is the latest monument in the U.S. to fall this year during the national reckoning over racism and police violence that also has toppled statues of Confederate figures and enslavers around the country.....
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
By that reasoning, it seems like they should ban Little Italy itself? Why single out one Italian? They’re all the same. If Chris didn’t do it, another goombah surely would have. Make it illegal to consume or sell Spaghetti & meatballs. Italian restaurants are racist! No more cannolis and gelato for you, you damn racist Wops!
No pasta, no peace!
If White America was anywhere near as racist as these people claim, blacks would have long been gone from here. If you really want to see something, keep pushing.
Where were the idiot police?
Maybe the left is right...the cops SHOULD be defunded; they aren’t doing their jobs!
Worse my Italian lonsmen did nothing also. During the 67 cultural uprising in Newark the aggrieved group was careful not to step over the line into the north ward. Same for the areas east of the central ward home to many Cuban Polish and Portuguese communities. Why? because the rioters knew it was not friendly territory.
The MSM would never ask her such a difficult and controversial question.
They're actively supporting the rioters.
Outside of a few Italian restaurants, I doubt Little Italy has many actual Italian-identifying Americans living in it any more.
Pull him out of the water and add the statue to the new park PDJT is working on.
Also, jail the assholes who pulled down the statue.
The Mafia is dead, apparently.
That expression has traction up here in York County, PA which is a bedroom-retirement community for folks from the Baltimore area. I am 50 miles north of the city and the newcomers are often dubbed “Baltimorons”.
And the absolutely worthless interim mayor, another corrupt black racist clueless clone a la Bow Wow of DC, Bottoms of Atlanta, Lightfoot of Chicago—Jack Young—had no problem with this beautiful statue being thrown into the harbor. And his likely successor, ANOTHER corrupt black racist clueless clone, Brandon Scott—undoubtedly will do the same. No arrests, just the mayor clapping from the sidelines. Most of the people I saw in the photo accompanying this story were WHITE young idiots, ignorant of American history, undoubtedly brainwashed by their leftist profs at their universitites. Instead of a major reexamination of our police polices and statues, I think a major reexamination of college and high school curricula is called for. Instead of a defunding of police, who are in effect the clean-up crew for the brainwashing perpetuated on your children at the above two types of institutions, I’d say a lot of leftist profs should be defunded and thrown the heck off of campuses. If we performed even a cursory search of faculty, we find Bill Ayers, Angela Davis, and other stinking commies whose personal philosophies are communism and the overthrow of our government. THERE’S your cancer, not “racism” like all the good brainwashed students have been taught to parrot.
While it is currently trendy to topple statues I wonder if there is a way to find out how many statues are in the US and what percent have been toppled. I am guessing it’s less than one percent.
As we see stories about these things we begin to feel that all the statues everywhere are under assault. I’m thinking not so.
There are many statues I’d like to see go because I do think they are for honor not just history. While I don’t think each must be of a flawless person, since there aren’t any, if they basically stood for evil I want them down. Marx for example.
That said, lawfully, not by mob rule.
If they hate this flag let them have a chance to dance around the China flag.
Democrat Party anarchists destroy. This destruction is not about the death of George Floyd. This Democrat Party and media sanctioned violence is about destroying America. This is Marxism at its finest.
And when they took down the statues, they did it right... The people getting injured today can learn from this picture... Ropes around the neck, poles on the base... Viola.
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It’s only a matter of time before MLK monuments begin to be destroyed. But that will be called a hate crime
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