Activists Throw Red Paint On Face Of Christopher Columbus Statue

[HenryBHough]

Remember when liberal civility was expressed only in spoken words or words printed on paper?

 

[Lakhota]

Remember when liberal civility was expressed only in spoken words or words printed on paper?

You mean until we learned to fight fire with fire...?

 

[HenryBHough]

You mean until we learned to fight fire with fire...?

And right there you see why race war is inevitable.

 

[Lakhota]

You mean until we learned to fight fire with fire...?

And right there you see why race war is inevitable.

Yeah, turning the other cheek wasn't getting us anywhere.

 

[Manonthestreet]

lot of latinos revere Columbus even more than whitey......not exactly helping themselves

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Columbus was Italian. That makes him an olive complexioned muh fucka.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

we also need a Harry Reid Statue, and put a toilet above it so that people can poop on Harry.

 

[Moonglow]

Remember when liberal civility was expressed only in spoken words or words printed on paper?

No, I never subscribed...

 

[Moonglow]

Columbus was Italian. That makes him an olive complexioned muh fucka.

He was not I-talian, there was no nation of Italy at the time...yuk-yuk....

 

[R.C. Christian]

Someone should have invited Bill Ayers.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Columbus was Italian. That makes him an olive complexioned muh fucka.

He was not I-talian, there was no nation of Italy at the time...yuk-yuk....

OK. Then he was black.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I guess he is white after all...

Chris Columbus - IMDb

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

More: Political Activists Throw Blood Back In Christopher Columbus' Face

Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.

I'm certainly not surprised to learn that you applaud vandalism.

You fucking pussy.

 

[Lakhota]

Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

More: Political Activists Throw Blood Back In Christopher Columbus' Face

Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.

I'm certainly not surprised to learn that you applaud vandalism.

You fucking pussy.

I applaud reality and truth.

 

[SmarterThanTheAverageBear]

Someone threw red paint on a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston on Wednesday and spray-painted it with the phrase “Black Lives Matter" -- the latest in a recent backlash against monuments that memorialize racist white men.

Memorials of the Confederate variety have been branded with the slogan in Baltimore; St. Louis; Durham, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Austin, Texas; Asheville, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.

It’s quite obvious why Confederate monuments are being targeted. Just two weeks ago, a white man executed nine black churchgoers in Charleston in arguably the most vicious anti-black terrorist attack after the civil rights movement. Since then, the removal of Confederate remembrances has been at the center of a national debate.

But defacing a monument honoring Columbus hits a deeper nerve. He was long dead when the Confederacy fought against the North in an attempt to preserve slavery. But while the connection may not be as direct, it’s clear why someone threw blood (back) in his face.

Columbus represents a longer, deeper legacy of racism in the Western Hemisphere. He and his cohorts were genocidal racists preoccupied with acquiring gold and raping Native women. Columbus' "discovery" of the “New" World -- which, for the record, was already inhabited -- linked Europe to the Americas and ushered in the transatlantic slave trade.

More: Political Activists Throw Blood Back In Christopher Columbus' Face

Columbus was an evil butcher and rapist. I applaud the activists who threw the red paint.

I'm certainly not surprised to learn that you applaud vandalism.

You fucking pussy.

I applaud reality and truth.

No, you applauded someone vandalizing a statue, just like last month you applauded someone desecrating graves.

You applaud crime, you're a piece of shit.

 

[HenryBHough]

You applaud crime, you're a piece of shit.

I must take issue with that last part.

Actual shit can be composted into fertilizer which serves a purpose.