Baltimore protesters toppled a Christopher Columbus statue and threw it in a harbor
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Via: texan1211 • 4 years ago • 12 commentsBy: Little Italy (MSN)
Baltimore protesters toppled a Christopher Columbus statue and threw it in a harbor© Courtesy Louis Krauss
While much of the country celebrated Independence Day Saturday, protesters in Baltimore toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the Inner Harbor, CNN affiliate WBAL reported.
Louis Krauss, who shared video of the toppling, said there were at least 300 people gathered at the scene.
"After it toppled over the statue broke into several pieces, which were then dragged across the plaza and dumped into the Inner Harbor," Krauss told CNN.
The statue has stood by Little Italy for more than 30 years and is the latest to come down in recent weeks amid protests. Both crowds of demonstrators and local orders have removed other tributes to Columbus, Confederate leaders and other controversial figures representing racist parts of America's history.
Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott said in a statement he had previously suggested the statue be removed, according to WBAL.
"I support Baltimore's Italian-American community and Baltimore's indigenous community," the statement said. "I cannot, however, support Columbus."
CNN has reached out to the Baltimore Police Department for comment.
On Wednesday, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, invoked his emergency powers to remove multiple Confederate monuments throughout the city, including a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Last month, a judge ordered the removal of a Confederate monument in an Atlanta suburb.
In other parts of the country, controversial symbols were toppled by protesters, including a group in Portland, Oregon, who pulled down a statue of George Washington last month and set its head on fire. In Richmond, Virginia, crowds took down the statue Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, a day after toppling a Columbus statue.
Isn't it just amazing how "woke" and intelligent these crumb bums are?
And where the hell were the police during all of this?
Standing down on some politician's orders?
It's a crazy time we live in but then I think most generations had a lot of the same thoughts about how crazy their world was.
To tear down statues of Christopher Columbus, to be upset about what his voyages did.
But in all honesty if not Columbus then some other European was going to come to the New World. Removing Columbus does not change what would have happened anyway. European powers were looking for new ways to Asia and the rich trading so the America's were going to be found regardless of who did it. And the outcome would have been the same regardless of who did it. Europeans brought small pox that the indigenous population had never experienced and had no protections against. Europeans also had a technological advantage over the indigenous population that would have brought the same results.
But by all means lets tear down statues of Columbus because he did a bad thing. I like the line from Laurence Bergreen. “You would think he set out with a goal to commit genocide or kill as many people as possible, but that actually wasn't his goal. He thought he was on a trade mission with China, which he didn't know where it was and he spent four voyages trying to find it and never did.”
There is some truth to what you say. But you dont create a reason to praise Columbus with statues, or to make him an "American" hero. He never set foot on soil that became the United States.
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Whether something like what happened with Columbus and the natives might have happened anyway with some other explorer, why did we (the U.S.) construct monuments and statues to this man? In light of what he did, it was very misguided. Take them all down.
I also believe that it's wrong to judge a person from 500 years in the past against the morals of today's world. Columbus was the first documented European explorer to to the New World and his actions and discoveries started the European migration to the America's. As he was the start of all of this I think yes he should be celebrated. Not as a holy man or even the greatest of men, but the first of his kind and should be remembered as such.
He is the history books as a major figure of the era of exploration. That is all the "celebrating" he deserves.
He was judged at the time by his fellow crew members as John points out. His conduct and treatment of the native populations he encountered was horrid even by the standards of that time.
"Columbus's government was characterised by a form of tyranny," Consuelo Varela, a Spanish historian who has seen the document, told journalists. "Even those who loved him had to admit the atrocities that had taken place."
"Because of their gross misgovernance, Columbus and his brothers were arrested and imprisoned upon their return to Spain from the third voyage."
Some may say that. My opinion is that the statues should remain up until there is a democratic agreement to remove them. I do not agree with mob rule and I do not agree with how some of them have been torn down. If there is a vote, my vote would be to keep it up. But follow a democratic process, not mob rule.
This is no longer about taking down monuments and statues, it's about taking down the United States by left-wing anarchist cheered on by the Democratic party.
what was the cost of the destroyed property?
I really don't think the leftist radicals care about cost, ownership, public or private really matters to them in the slightest.
Wait till they figure out that Ford and GM were alleged Nazi collaborators.
I can see the protests the forced sale of Ford Motors to get the name changed. If the protests don't work, the rioting, vandalism, and arson of cars and plants.
Could be very fun times coming with these leftist assholes, and their Democratic enablers.