Posted on 10/16/2020 8:04:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
We know that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. This voyager from Genoa, Italy was bound for Asia. He never did touch the land of North America, but landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. Columbus completed four voyages across the Atlantic and established a colony in Haiti, leading to European exploration and colonization of the Americas. He has long been venerated but in recent years has been criticized for his activities that led not only to colonization, but to the transatlantic slave trade, the death of millions from murder and disease, and the imposition of slavery in the Bahamas. Images of Columbus have been defaced or removed throughout the U.S., in Boston, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Sacramento. Columbus Day, which became a federal holiday in 1937, has been renamed in some circles Indigenous Peoples Day.
The downfall, physical and ethical, of Columbus can be considered another example of the process in which considerable parts of the public heritage in the U.S., and in the U.K., are being rewritten or erased. On October 11, 2020, protestors in Portland, Ore. toppled the statues of Abraham Lincoln, hitherto celebrated as the president who ended slavery in the U.S., and Theodore Roosevelt and damaged the Oregon Historical Society in demonstrations called the Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage against colonization and the treatment of Native Americans.
It is time to reflect on some related issues: should judgments be made about people in the past based on accepted values today, and who should be admired and honored or disdained and relegated to the dustbin of history? An incident in San Francisco is revealing. Citizens in the city were asked who should be honored in Coit Tower to replace Columbus.
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The statues represent Dad - and that old bastard needs to pay for taking away the Nintendo because the statue toppler got caught smoking pot when he was 15! :)
I only have a shopping list of two to topple next time I go out.
The most recent Ruth Ginsberg one in Brooklyn and the Marion Berry one in DC, but that one I may let stand and just solder a crack pipe to its mouth.
I agree. Nothing more than that.
Thank You Nimrata Randhawa for kicking off this history erasing frenzy.
It’s not her history, why should she care?
Could we spray paint “bitch set me up”?
historians have talked about The Dark Ages. During that time, monasteries and others became repositories of what would have been lost knowledge.
This, as a metaphor, describes the dark ages forming in the democrat cities, while our history is preserved in conservative cities. When the democrats get over whatever possesses their souls, conservatives can restore our history there.
***Indigenous Peoples Day. ***
It will always be remembered as a hijack of Columbus Day.
They have better days. June 25, 1876 and Aug 10, 1680.
I remember when statues were only toppled when American forces freed nations from dictators.
And they were rightly toppled.
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