Will it never end?
Washington and Jefferson will be next. You give these troglodytes an inch, they'll take a hundred miles...
Washington and Jefferson will be next. You give these troglodytes an inch, they'll take a hundred miles...
ST. LOUIS -- A Christopher Columbus statue in a St. Louis park is being called into question about a year after a Confederate monument was removed from another park in the city.
A commission is being formed to review whether the 130-year-old statue belongs in Tower Grove Park, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The panel will include historians, art experts, and representatives of Italian-Americans and Native Americans in St. Louis, said David Lauber, the park's director of development.
"We've been aware in recent years that this is an issue," Lauber said. "We know that it's time to have a discussion."
The commission will eventually make long-term recommendations regarding the statue's future to the park's Board of Commissioners.
The statue has been repeatedly covered with graffiti over the last two years, with words including "murderer" and "Black Lives Matter" being painted onto the base.
Columbus statue in St. Louis park is being scrutinized
A commission is being formed to review whether the 130-year-old statue belongs in Tower Grove Park, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The panel will include historians, art experts, and representatives of Italian-Americans and Native Americans in St. Louis, said David Lauber, the park's director of development.
"We've been aware in recent years that this is an issue," Lauber said. "We know that it's time to have a discussion."
The commission will eventually make long-term recommendations regarding the statue's future to the park's Board of Commissioners.
The statue has been repeatedly covered with graffiti over the last two years, with words including "murderer" and "Black Lives Matter" being painted onto the base.
Columbus statue in St. Louis park is being scrutinized