Christopher Columbus monument vandalized in Baltimore

[dukkha]

monument in Baltimore to Christopher Columbus — believed to be the first one erected to the Italian explorer in America — was vandalized.

Baltimore Police said they were looking into the incident, but couldn’t say when the damage took place.

A video posted to YouTube on Monday by a user named “Popular Resistance” shows a man striking the base of the monument near Herring Run Park repeatedly with a sledgehammer. Another person holds a sign that reads: “Racism, tear it down.” Another sign is taped to the monument reading: “The future is racial and economic justice.”

Police are searching for information about the men in the video, as well as whoever filmed it.

“We want to inform people it is a crime to destroy property. And if the person is identified who is responsible for this, they will be prosecuted,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.

The narrator of the video, who says his name is Ty, calls Christopher Columbus a “genocidal terrorist.”

The monument, which features a two-story-tall obelisk atop a base, was still standing on Monday morning, but there was a gaping hole in the front and chunks of stone were scattered in the grass. The signs seen in the video were lying on the ground.

The lettering on the front of the monument — “Sacred to the memory of Chris. Columbus, Octob. XII, MDCCVIIIC” — was rendered unreadable.

The vandalism comes nearly one week after city officials swiftly removed four controversial monuments: a statue of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate Women’s monument, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery.

This is happening everywhere,” said Kevin Caira, president of the Sons of Italy’s Commission for Social Justice. Over the weekend, a Columbus statue in Boston was painted red and a protest was held at a statue in Detroit, he said.

In 2015, someone splashed red paint and planted a hatchet on the head of a bronze statue of Columbus in Detroit, according to the Detroit News.

Caira said there’s been an uptick in attention to Columbus monuments since the events in Charlottesville, as people rethink the value of statues in public places.

Caira defended Columbus as a great explorer who may not be guilty of all of the sins ascribed to him. He also suggested it’s unfair to measure a 15th-century figure by 21st-century morals and standards.

“He’s been the target of people claiming he caused all of the ills of the world, that he caused genocide and slavery,” Caira said. “It’s just not true.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-columbus-monument-20170821-story.html

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Tell me these assholes aren't just the same as the Chinese suffered during their Cultural Revolution.
It's beginning to look like ISIS in the Mosul museum as well

*I played at that park when I was a kid ( Herring run)* sad*

[Tarpon]

monument in Baltimore to Christopher Columbus — believed to be the first one erected to the Italian explorer in America — was vandalized.

Baltimore Police said they were looking into the incident, but couldn’t say when the damage took place.

A video posted to YouTube on Monday by a user named “Popular Resistance” shows a man striking the base of the monument near Herring Run Park repeatedly with a sledgehammer. Another person holds a sign that reads: “Racism, tear it down.” Another sign is taped to the monument reading: “The future is racial and economic justice.”

Police are searching for information about the men in the video, as well as whoever filmed it.

“We want to inform people it is a crime to destroy property. And if the person is identified who is responsible for this, they will be prosecuted,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.

The narrator of the video, who says his name is Ty, calls Christopher Columbus a “genocidal terrorist.”

The monument, which features a two-story-tall obelisk atop a base, was still standing on Monday morning, but there was a gaping hole in the front and chunks of stone were scattered in the grass. The signs seen in the video were lying on the ground.

The lettering on the front of the monument — “Sacred to the memory of Chris. Columbus, Octob. XII, MDCCVIIIC” — was rendered unreadable.

The vandalism comes nearly one week after city officials swiftly removed four controversial monuments: a statue of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate Women’s monument, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery.

This is happening everywhere,” said Kevin Caira, president of the Sons of Italy’s Commission for Social Justice. Over the weekend, a Columbus statue in Boston was painted red and a protest was held at a statue in Detroit, he said.

In 2015, someone splashed red paint and planted a hatchet on the head of a bronze statue of Columbus in Detroit, according to the Detroit News.

Caira said there’s been an uptick in attention to Columbus monuments since the events in Charlottesville, as people rethink the value of statues in public places.

Caira defended Columbus as a great explorer who may not be guilty of all of the sins ascribed to him. He also suggested it’s unfair to measure a 15th-century figure by 21st-century morals and standards.

“He’s been the target of people claiming he caused all of the ills of the world, that he caused genocide and slavery,” Caira said. “It’s just not true.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...821-story.html

What does a moron know, Columbus, Lee, Lincoln all the same to them

[dukkha]

What does a moron know, Columbus, Lee, Lincoln all the same to them

they know..It'sa concerted effort to destroy our national identity/history for some crazed revisonism
of what I'm not exactly sure- nor do i want to know.

Welcome to America's Cultural Revolution

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The strategy should not be to engage them. Now we just let them run wild and tie them around the neck of the democrat party


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Why are you people so concerned over statues? A few dimwits do something to a statue somewhere and the right loses sleep

You know there is a reason why statues and memorials to individuals became out of vogue in the second half of the Twentieth Century, in the end they mean little

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Why are you people so concerned over statues? A few dimwits do something to a statue somewhere and the right loses sleep

You know there is a reason why statues and memorials to individuals became out of vogue in the second half of the Twentieth Century, in the end they mean little

So we could start tearing down MLK statues and you wouldn't blink an eyelash

I think you are starting to sense you have let the Antifa genie out of the bottle and now they will be tied around the democrat party's neck.

You are right to be fearful.

[blackascoal]

I don't condone the vandalism .. but Columbus was quite the dick.

Time to get rid of Columbus Day .. a battle that's been taking place for a lot of years.

I take the time every Columbus Day to educate my grandchildren on why there should never be a Columbus Day .. just as I did with my children.

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I don't condone the vandalism .. but Columbus was quite the dick.

Time to get rid of Columbus Day .. a battle that's been taking place for a lot of years.

I take the time every Columbus Day to educate my grandchildren on why there should never be a Columbus Day .. just as I did with my children.

Now we know why your children are unemployed and selling heroin

Funny how all of a sudden our resident race hustlers doesn't condone vandalism.

He must have gotten word there is blowback

Can the democrat party put the fascist Antifa genie back in the bottle?

[Buckly J. Ewer]

I don't condone the vandalism .. but Columbus was quite the dick.

Time to get rid of Columbus Day .. a battle that's been taking place for a lot of years.

I take the time every Columbus Day to educate my grandchildren on why there should never be a Columbus Day .. just as I did with my children.

Good for you...
Columbus was nothing for anyone to revere...
He was an exploitative murdering asshole who got lost and robbed gold for Spain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-k..._b_742708.html

[Amadeus]

Chris Columbo was a genocidal butcher and a terrorist. Sorry, those are the facts of history.

[tsuke]

Why are you people so concerned over statues? A few dimwits do something to a statue somewhere and the right loses sleep

You know there is a reason why statues and memorials to individuals became out of vogue in the second half of the Twentieth Century, in the end they mean little

because it is useful to show the overreach of the left : )

[dukkha]

Columbus was a terrorist....lol..whatever ( sounds like Syrian players calling everyone else "terrorists")

If you want it taken down you do it thru a democratic process, not vandalization

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Why are you people so concerned over statues? A few dimwits do something to a statue somewhere and the right loses sleep

You know there is a reason why statues and memorials to individuals became out of vogue in the second half of the Twentieth Century, in the end they mean little

Because we're ERASING HISTORY!!!!!

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sorry - that was sarcasm in case no one noticed.