Statue of Columbus in Richmond torn down.

[milestogo]

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Some of our founding fathers owned slaves. Are they next?

[bigtree]

1. the statue provoked them.

...not the first time.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Excellent.

Are they next?

If it brings about the reckoning this country must have about how it is built on a framework of white supremacy, then let's goooooo.

[dalton99a]

5. +1. Columbus was a brutal murderous tyrant.

[lagomorph777]

10. First European slaveholder in the Americas. He killed off entire native tribes as he exploited them

[Goodheart]

3. Maybe statues, in general, are a bad idea.

[edhopper]

12. Not true

[Maribelle]

4. Looks like another statue tripped ...

or was stolen.

We live in such perplexing times.

[Laelth]

6. Should we pull down the Jefferson Memorial?

What about the Washington Monument?



-Laelth

[lagomorph777]

8. Pull down the Jefferson Memorial and rename the giant obelisk.

Perhaps the MLK Monument.

[edhopper]

13. No

they also did good and great things. Columbus is undeserved.

[lagomorph777]

7. I hope our slave-holder founders are next. Columbus was the first European slaveholder in America.

All of them should rightly be reviled. They wrote some nice words that in no way matched their deeds.

[Goodheart]

9. That statue was not exactly right next to the lake

Somebody had to carry it down some 100+ yards. Must have been quite a parade. I won't miss it!

[2naSalit]

11. Well that made my day

when I heard about it earlier! Thanks for the visual!

[malaise]

14. Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar