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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChristopher Columbus statue in Connecticut is beheaded
Someone put the cut in Connecticut.
A Christopher Columbus statue outside City Hall in Waterbury, Conn., was discovered decapitated Saturday morning, and cops were investigating, The Hartford Courant reported.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/christopher-columbus-statue-in-connecticut-is-beheaded/ar-BB16l3N5?ocid=msedgntp
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Christopher Columbus statue in Connecticut is beheaded (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Jul 2020
OP
our education system definitely needs to provide a full accounting of the actions of some of
Demovictory9
Jul 2020
#4
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)1. Bart Simpson did it!
n/t
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)9. "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, you can't prove anything!"
PTWB
(4,131 posts)2. Good Riddance!!!
We ought have no monuments to this monster. And certainly no holidays in his honor. I was extremely happy to see that even Republicans are pushing to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth Day.
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)4. our education system definitely needs to provide a full accounting of the actions of some of
these "heroes".
BComplex
(8,049 posts)7. You got that right!
We need a whole new education system. And we need to reinstate civics and government classes. We need to explain why government is equally important as private industry, not something to be pushed aside in favor of private industry.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)3. Superb!!!!
MagickMuffin
(15,937 posts)5. Is he depicted wearing Native Clothes?
If so that isn't a good look on someone who caused GREAT harm to the Native Americans.
Columbus put down native unrest and revolt: he first ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed, and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion.
He was very much into dismembering bodies.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)6. The Columbus statue in Norwalk, CT, has been removed,
purportedly for "safekeeping," to avoid vandalism. There's a big to-do over it.
BComplex
(8,049 posts)8. The closet would be a good place for it.