Truly amazing what's going on with the statues. A
George Washington statue in Chicago was vandalized. Spray painted and a white hood (similar to KKK) was placed on its head.
A
Texas Ranger statue was removed in Dallas , TX. Couldn't have that, right ? After all, Texas Rangers are COPS, right ?
"Protesters"
vandalized the statues of
Christopher Columbus and
Juan Ponce de Leon on June 10, spray painting a hammer and sickle, Black Lives Matter fists and more. Miami Police arrested seven suspects. Dummy vandals aren't smart enough to avoid cities with Republican mayors, Republican governors. Statues of Columbus have been destroyed all over the country.
Anti-Columbus activists claim that his actions led to the transatlantic slave trade and the mass killing and exploitation of indigenous people. In Tampa, about a dozen were interviewed the day after the riots, and asked about Columbus. All agreed he was bad. None could state specifically what he did that was bad.
In Sacramento, CA, 3 legislators signed a statement saying
"Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing historical figure given the deadly impact his arrival in this hemisphere had on indigenous populations," Actually, most Indians who died after European contact died accidently, from disease, mostly small pox. Secondly, most Indians living today owe their superior lifestyle to Columbus. Not many of them would choose to live as their ancestors did 500 years ago.
A statue of
Ulysses S. Grant (who led Union forces against the Confederacy) Dopey vandals thought he was a slaveowner. Actually, he married a woman who had one slave, and they freed that slave.
