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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Black Supremacy
The hate that dare not speak its name.
Wed Apr 28, 2021 David Horowitz and John Perazzo 7 comments
When a white police officer in Ohio shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant, stopping her from plunging a butcher knife into the chest of an unarmed black teenager, the racial melodrama that is destroying the very fabric of American society reached what the “woke” refer to as an “inflection point.” At that moment, the narrative of the national lynch mob – verdict first, due process be damned – collided with an impossible reality: a white cop saving the life of a black child. Unable to resolve this dilemma, the woke mob simply refused to see it.
It was left to Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors to formulate their denial bluntly:
The verdict of George Floyd’s murder was a victory in accountability but not a victory towards abolition [of the police]. While we watched Derek Chauvin be convicted for murder, a Black child named Ma’Khia Bryant was murdered by police, proving there is no justice.
Patrisse Cullors is a racist whose sociopathic premise is: all cops are guilty and all black criminals are innocent. This is also the premise and rationale of all the riots and protests of the year just passed: White cops are racists, and blacks their innocent targets, even if they happen to be armed criminals resisting arrest. Through these ideological blinders, the Ohio event - a white cop rescuing an unarmed black teen about to be murdered by a knife-wielding black teen – was simply impossible. The fact that the knife-wielding black teen was shouting “I’m going to stab the fuck out of you, bitch” as she thrust a butcher knife towards her intended victim’s chest was just inconceivable. If white cops protected black victims from black criminals, the goal of abolishing the police could not be justified...........
In a sermon delivered in 2011, Farrakhan said: “There is no human being on earth that has murdered more living things than the Caucasian. He is a murderer and a liar.” “White folks … cannot be reformed [because] you cannot reform a devil…. You have to kill the devil.” In a sermon delivered in July 2015 Farrakhan said:
I’m looking for 10,000 … fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under [white] tyranny…. [I]f the federal government won’t intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling!
Despite – or maybe because of – these views, Farrakhan is arguably
one of the most influential black voices in politics today. One of his
disciples is Al Sharpton,
the MSNBC host, racial arsonist, and principal eulogist at the black
martyr George Floyd’s memorial. In a notable speech in 1994 at Kean
College, Sharpton boasted,.................To Read More....
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
The One Democrat Who Says Columbus Officer Who Shot Ma’Khia Bryant Was In the Right
Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas1 Apr 26, 2021
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), the former Police Chief of Orlando, broke with other Democrats and Black Lives Matter to defend the Columbus police officer who shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant while she was attempting to stab a black girl during an altercation. During her interview on "Face the Nation," Demings said the officer did what he was trained to do, which is to protect himself and the life of others who face immediate danger.........To Read More...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Canceling Columbus: How it started years ago, and escalated in 2020
Much of the hostility toward Christopher Columbus can be traced back to Howard Zinn's popular book of polemical history, "A People's History of the United States."October 11, 2020
By Mary Grabar @ Just the News
Attacks against statues of Christopher Columbus and calls to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day have become a Columbus Day ritual in recent years. This year they began early, shortly after the May 25 death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police, as protests against police and "systemic" racism quickly turned into riots.
This year's riots differed from others, such as Watts in 1965 and Ferguson in 2014. This summer's destruction rippled outward beyond the communities where the alleged police brutality took place. Symbolic vengeance for what was seen as the murder of a black man by white police officers was exacted in the widening desecration, destruction and removal of public historical monuments: first, statues of Confederates, then Columbus and, finally, an increasingly indiscriminate sweep of figures from American history, including even abolitionists, black Union soldiers, and the commander of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant.
Much of the hostility toward Columbus can be traced back to Howard Zinn's popular book of polemical history, "A People's History of the United States," in continuous publication since 1980. The claims in this book are now widely accepted as conventional wisdom. Wikipedia, for example, attributes this summer's wave of attacks on and removal of more than 30 Columbus statues to the explorer's "enslavement of and systemic violence against the indigenous people of the Caribbean, including the genocide of the Taino people."
"A People's History" is used increasingly as a core history textbook in schools. The Zinn Education Project offers lessons based on Zinn's book, as well as "Abolish Columbus Day" kits. Zinn, ten years after his death, remains an icon of the political left and a profound influence in shaping unwary students' understanding of our national history.
What happened in New Haven, Conn., this summer provides a case study. A statue of Columbus had stood in the city's Wooster Square Park since 1892. But on June 24, 2020, the statue, defaced with red paint, was taken down by workers, as fights erupted between supporters and opponents of the removal.
Randall Beach, New Haven Register columnist, used Zinn's book to advocate for the statue's removal in a June 25 column headlined "With the Columbus statue gone, let the healing begin." Beach described the fights as occurring between Black Lives Matter members and opponents. One man told Beach he wanted the statue to stay because Columbus was not "a murderer and a rapist." This unnamed man echoed letter-writer Frank Mongillo, III, who objected to the removal of the statue, which had been funded by donations from "a group of Italian societies" and which, he said, symbolized pride and helped "build a sense of connection between the Italian community and America's history."
Beach wrote that he had asked the man in the park "if he had read the historian Howard Zinn and his 'People's History of the United States' ... Zinn used Columbus' journal and the observations of a writer-priest to amass extensive evidence that Columbus committed atrocities. ..."
Beach was repeating claims from his June 18 column, which relied on the famous opening pages of Zinn's book, which, as demonstrated in my own "Debunking Howard Zinn," Zinn actually plagiarized from a book for high school students by his fellow anti-Vietnam War organizer, Hans Koning, a novelist.
Zinn also quoted deceptively from Columbus' journal. One of these deceptive quotations cited by Beach formed the basis for a scene in "The Sopranos." The teenage A.J., doing homework, reads from Zinn's book: "They would make fine servants. ... With fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever we want." The passage, A.J. says, is proof that Columbus was a "slave trader."
Television viewers did not see the ellipses, and they should not have needed to, for ellipses are used to eliminate short, nonessential passages. Zinn's, however, leave out pages — two days' worth of the explorer's log entries, including such sentences about the native inhabitants he encountered as: "I know that they are a people who can be made free and converted to our Holy Faith more by love than by force."
Zinn also failed to indicate that it was a hostile tribe — not Columbus — that thought "they" would make "fine servants."
Beach also cited Zinn's quotations from the Spanish priest, Bartolomé de Las Casas, who, regretting that he had previously owned Indian slaves, wrote polemics against their enslavement. His accusations against the Spanish colonizers were grossly exaggerated, as translator Andree Collard makes clear in the introduction to her 1971 translation of Las Casas' "History of the Indies." Though Zinn included this book in his bibliography and quoted from it, he did not note the translator's warnings. Nor did Zinn acknowledge that Las Casas praised Columbus.
In his July 8 column, Beach responded to "critics... [who] cannot be persuaded ... that Columbus committed ghastly acts after he 'discovered America.'" He presented even more "evidence" — a book that he claimed "goes into far more detail than Zinn did about ... Columbus." The book? Koning's "Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth" — the book Zinn plagiarized in the opening pages of "A People's History."
Zinn has been roundly criticized by conservatives for a falsified history that has inspired hatred for America. But historians on the left have also long attacked his scholarship. For example, Georgetown history professor Michael Kazin — a Democratic Socialist — called Zinn's book conspiratorial "bad history." The late historian Eugene Genovese, who knew Zinn, dismissed "A People's History" as "left-wing sloganizing." At the time, both Genovese and Zinn were Marxists.
Liberal historian David Greenberg recounted in The New Republic the debate between leftist historians in the late 1960s, with Genovese hoping for a "socialist future," but calling for remaining "true to the evidence." Zinn, on the other hand, distorted the evidence in service to a radical-left activist agenda.
Although Zinn always denied having been a Communist Party member, historians have disputed his claim. Cold War historian Ronald Radosh, himself a former Party member, concluded on the basis of Zinn's 423-page FBI file that "Zinn was an active member of the Communist party (CPUSA)."
To be sure, Columbus was not perfect. Most scholars acknowledge that Columbus often failed to manage his men. Though he repeatedly instructed them to treat the natives with kindness, some did abuse and cheat the natives. One of these Columbus had hanged.
Columbus' talents lay elsewhere, in seamanship. A devout Catholic, he hoped to set up a trading post with the Grand Khan of China in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem from the Muslims. One of the natives Columbus had baptized became his godson.
This information comes from the scholarship of Carol Delaney, Stanford University Emerita Professor of Anthropology. Delaney, who supports a separate Indigenous Peoples' Day, blames Zinn for many of the "bad and erroneous things" now commonly believed about Columbus.
Columbus has been a hero from the time of the American Revolution. Indeed, Americans, distancing themselves from "Britannia," named the federal enclave hosting their new national capital "Columbia" in his honor.
Columbus' discovery was first celebrated in 1792. Later, Italian-Americans, who faced threats from the KKK and discrimination by employers, found in the Geonoan maritime explorer a source of pride and donated pennies and nickels to erect statues.
Columbus connects those who came "on the Mayflower" to those who came as steerage on ships plying the ocean in the 20th century. To those who want to overthrow our country, Columbus makes an irresistible target.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
How an Arrogant Journalist Helped Crucify Columbus in New Haven
Mary Grabar
October 10th, 2020 @ mrcNewsbusters
Since 1892, a statue of Christopher Columbus in New Haven’s Wooster Square has been a place where Italian Americans rallied on Columbus Day. It’s gone now, another victim of the current fashion of erasing our history. It’s gone partially thanks to the willful ignorance and arrogance of a New Haven Register journalist, and his reliance on the anti-American lies of the left’s favorite history textbook.
The sorry episode began with Randall Beach’s June 18 column calling for the statue to come down. Beach basically reprinted the opening pages of what he called a “ground-breaking book,” A People’s History of the United States, by the late history professor and communist Howard Zinn. The column repeated Zinn’s lies (many of which were plagiarized from Zinn’s fellow anti-Vietnam War protestor Hans Koning) painting Columbus as someone who enslaved and murdered the gentle “Arawak” natives who came up to greet him and his men.
Beach calls these opening pages of Zinn’s book “heartbreaking,” and they would be but that they have no basis in fact. Zinn’s sources are anti-Columbus propaganda and when he does quote from Columbus’s log he leaves out critical information, misrepresenting what Columbus actually wrote.
When I read Beach’s column, I emailed him to present the truth. I had spent over two years writing a book in which I painstakingly researched the claims of Zinn about Columbus and other American heroes and episodes. My book contains about 1,000 endnotes (that’s 1,000 more than Zinn provided; People’s History offers only a bibliography). I did research in primary and secondary sources, and even went through Zinn’s papers at Tamiment Library at New York University.
Beach apparently wasn’t impressed. His reply was flippant. “Sure, Zinn had a bias and you do too,” he sneered, incredulous I doubted Zinn’s account. “Are you seriously claiming he altered words from Columbus’ own journal? And that he altered what Las Casas reported? These are primary sources; from ‘the horse's mouth’ and from a priest on the scene.”
I wrote back explaining that Zinn had grossly misrepresented what Columbus wrote in journals by leaving out key words -- something he did to the accounts of Columbus and others. I explained the unreliability of Bartolomé de Las Casas as a historian, and that the plagiarism of Koning -- a creative writer, not a historian -- should by itself raise suspicions. I linked to a review of People’s History by Professor Michael Kazin, a historian and a proud democratic socialist. Kazin called it “bad history,” that was “grounded in a premise better suited to a Conspiracy-monger’s website than to a work of scholarship.”
His entire reply to my arguments: “So I guess the conclusion here is that Zinn got it all wrong and Columbus actually was a generous, humane guy who never hurt anybody.”
Then, in his July 8 column, he wrote that “When I wrote a column June 18 (‘Why the Columbus statue must go’) summarizing historian Howard Zinn’s shocking findings about the cruelty of Christopher Columbus toward the Indian people, some readers accused me and Zinn of being biased and unfair.” He cited a letter writer who charged him with “’cherry picking’ information.” Beach said “critics, who are angry that the city of New Haven removed the Columbus statue … cannot be persuaded, no matter what the evidence, that Columbus committed ghastly acts after he ‘discovered America.’”
Beach then proudly announced that he had found “a book describing the real Christopher Columbus” that “goes into far more detail than Zinn did about the life of Columbus. The book is ‘Columbus: His Enterprise,’ subtitled ‘Exploding the Myth’” … by Hans Koning. The very book I had indicated in my email as the plagiarized source.
I decided to write a letter to the editor of the Register explaining my findings about Zinn’s work and detailing my exchanges with Beach.
I got the runaround (“too long for a letter, but we’ll consider it for an op-ed,” “sent on to the editor,” “sent to the editorial page editor”) and then silence. I wasn’t surprised. The New Haven Register doesn’t seem to prize honesty or intellectual rigor -- it’s protecting Beach, who either is a propagandist with an agenda or is intellectually incapable of doing his job.
Sadly, America’s newsrooms are riddled with Randal Beaches, activists who in their arrogance and willful ignorance, are happy to help the left erase American history.
Mary Grabar, Ph.D., a former college instructor, is a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization. She is the author of “Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America.”
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Don’t Defend Columbus—Celebrate Him
The Italian explorer who opened America to the West deserves tribute.
Chicago’s Columbus purge was the most violent—49 police officers were hurt
there in July after coming under attack from rioters attempting to
topple a statue in Grant Park. Protesters pelted police with sharpened
pipes, frozen water bottles, rocks, and other weapons. Chicago mayor
Lori Lightfoot ordered all three of the city’s Columbus statues to be
taken down in the dead of night; their fate is under review. Several
local politicians, seemingly more preoccupied with Columbus than with
addressing the city’s spiraling murder rate, cheered on the rioters.
Alderman Daniel La Spata said (none too coherently) of the mayhem, “last night’s protest at the Columbus statue was a direct expression of the use of state violence to protect white supremacy.”..........To Read More.....
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The End of Columbus Day is the End of America
Posted by Daniel Greenfield 21 Comments @ Sultan Knish Blog Originally published in 2016
Columbus Day parades are met with protests and some have been minimized or eliminated.
In a number of cities Columbus Day was transformed into Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.
After making a shambles of his efforts at socialized medicine, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed on to Indigenous People's Day. What began in Berkeley, spread to Denver, Pheonix and Seattle, among other cities.
No American state has followed Venezuela's lead in renaming it DÃa de la Resistencia IndÃgena, or Day of Indigenous Resistance, which actually is a Marxist terrorist group's holiday, but the whole notion of celebrating the discovery of America has come to be seen as somehow shameful and worst of all, politically incorrect.
The shift from celebrating Columbus' arrival in America to commemorating it as an American tragedy by focusing on the tribes who had settled there earlier, rather than the American settlers, is a profound form of historical revisionism that hacks away at the origins of this country.
The attacks on Columbus Day have less to do with the distant descendants of those tribes, most of whom owe more of their ancestry to the later arrivals made possible by Columbus, than with the agenda of the left.
Anti-Columbus Day protests are mounted by La Raza, whose members, despite their indigenous posturing, are actually mostly descended from Spanish colonists, but who know that most Americans are too confused to rationally frame an objection to a protest by any minority group.
The absurdity is deepened by the linguistic and cultural ties between the Italian Columbus Day marchers and the Latino Anti-Columbus Day protesters with the latter set cynically exploiting white guilt to pretend that being the descendants of Southern European colonists makes them a minority.
If being descended from Southern Europeans makes you a minority, then Columbus, the parade marchers, the Greek restaurant owner nearby and even Rush Limbaugh are all "people of color."
Italian-Americans are the only bulwark against political correctness still keeping Columbus on the calendar, and that has made mayors and governors in cities and states with large Italian-American communities wary of tossing the great explorer completely overboard. But while Ferdinand and Isabella may have brought Columbus back in chains, modern day political correctness is erasing him from history and replacing him with a note reading, "I'm Sorry We Ever Landed Here."
But this is about more than one single 15th century Genoan with a complicated life who was neither a monster nor a saint. It is about whether America really has any right to exist at all. Is there any argument against celebrating Columbus Day, that cannot similarly be applied to the Fourth of July?
If Columbus is to be stricken from the history books in favor of ideological thugs like Malcolm X or Caesar Chavez, then America must soon follow. Columbus' crime is that he enabled European settlement of the continent.If the settlement of non-Indians in North America is illegitimate, then any national state they created is also illegitimate.
It is easier to hack away at a nation's history by beginning with the lower branches.
Columbus is an easier target than America itself, though the left considers both colonialist vermin. Americans are less likely to protest over the banishment of Columbus to the politically correct gulag than over the banishing America itself, which was named after another one of those colonialist explorers, Amerigo Vespucci. First they came for Columbus Day and then for the Fourth of July.
The battles being fought over Columbus Day foreshadow the battles to be fought over the Fourth of July. As Columbus Day joins the list of banned holidays in more cities, one day there may not be a Fourth of July, just a day of Native Resistance to remember the atrocities of the colonists with PBS documentaries comparing George Washington to Hitler.
These documentaries already exist, they just haven't gone mainstream. Yet.
We celebrate Columbus Day and the Fourth of July because that is our history. Had the Aztecs, the Mayans or the Iroquois Confederation developed the necessary technology and skills to cross the Atlantic and begin colonizing Europe, the fate of its native inhabitants would have been far uglier. The different perspectives on history often depend on which side you happen to be on.
To Americans, the Alamo is a shining moment of heroism. To the Mexicans who are the heirs of a colonialist empire far more ruthless than anything to be found north of the Rio Grande, the war was a plot to conquer Mexican territory. And neither side is altogether wrong, but choosing which version of history to go by is the difference between being an American or a Mexican.
A nation's mythology, its paragons and heroes, its founding legends and great deeds, are its soul. To replace them with another culture's perspective on its history is to kill that soul.
That is the ultimate goal of political correctness, to kill America's soul. To stick George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, James Bowie, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and all the rest on a shelf in a back room somewhere, and replace them with timelier liberal heroes. Move over Washington, Caesar Chavez needs this space. No more American heroes need apply.
Followed of course by no more America.
This is how it begins. And that is how it ends. Nations are not destroyed by atomic bombs or economic catastrophes; they are lost when they lose any reason to go on living. When they no longer have enough pride to go on fighting to survive.The final note of politically correct lunacy comes from a headline in the Columbus Dispatch about the Columbus Day festival in the city of Columbus, Ohio. "Italian Festival honors controversial explorer with its own Columbus Day parade".
Once the great discover of America, Columbus is now dubbed "controversial" by a newspaper named after him, in a city named after him .And if he is controversial, how can naming a city after him and a newspaper after the city not be equally controversial?
Can the day when USA Today has a headline reading, "Some cities still plan controversial 4th of July celebration of American independence" be far behind?
Thursday, October 11, 2018
The War on Columbus is a War on America
Columbus Day parades are met with protests and some have been minimized or eliminated.
In a number of cities Columbus Day was transformed into Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.
After making a shambles of his efforts at socialized medicine, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed on to Indigenous People's Day. What began in Berkeley, spread to Denver, Pheonix and Seattle, among other cities.
No American state has followed Venezuela's lead in renaming it DÃa de la Resistencia IndÃgena, or Day of Indigenous Resistance, which actually is a Marxist terrorist group's holiday, but the whole notion of celebrating the discovery of America has come to be seen as somehow shameful and worst of all, politically incorrect.
The shift from celebrating Columbus' arrival in America to commemorating it as an American tragedy by focusing on the tribes who had settled there earlier, rather than the American settlers, is a profound form of historical revisionism that hacks away at the origins of this country.
The attacks on Columbus Day have less to do with the distant descendants of those tribes, most of whom owe more of their ancestry to the later arrivals made possible by Columbus, than with the agenda of the left.
Anti-Columbus Day protests are mounted by La Raza, whose members, despite their indigenous posturing, are actually mostly descended from Spanish colonists, but who know that most Americans are too confused to rationally frame an objection to a protest by any minority group.
The absurdity is deepened by the linguistic and cultural ties between the Italian Columbus Day marchers and the Latino Anti-Columbus Day protesters with the latter set cynically exploiting white guilt to pretend that being the descendants of Southern European colonists makes them a minority.
If being descended from Southern Europeans makes you a minority, then Columbus, the parade marchers, the Greek restaurant owner nearby and even Rush Limbaugh are all "people of color."
Italian-Americans are the only bulwark against political correctness still keeping Columbus on the calendar, and that has made mayors and governors in cities and states with large Italian-American communities wary of tossing the great explorer completely overboard. But while Ferdinand and Isabella may have brought Columbus back in chains, modern day political correctness is erasing him from history and replacing him with a note reading, "I'm Sorry We Ever Landed Here."
But this is about more than one single 15th century Genoan with a complicated life who was neither a monster nor a saint. It is about whether America really has any right to exist at all. Is there any argument against celebrating Columbus Day, that cannot similarly be applied to the Fourth of July?
If Columbus is to be stricken from the history books in favor of ideological thugs like Malcolm X or Caesar Chavez, then America must soon follow. Columbus' crime is that he enabled European settlement of the continent.If the settlement of non-Indians in North America is illegitimate, then any national state they created is also illegitimate.
It is easier to hack away at a nation's history by beginning with the lower branches.
Columbus is an easier target than America itself, though the left considers both colonialist vermin. Americans are less likely to protest over the banishment of Columbus to the politically correct gulag than over the banishing America itself, which was named after another one of those colonialist explorers, Amerigo Vespucci. First they came for Columbus Day and then for the Fourth of July.
The battles being fought over Columbus Day foreshadow the battles to be fought over the Fourth of July. As Columbus Day joins the list of banned holidays in more cities, one day there may not be a Fourth of July, just a day of Native Resistance to remember the atrocities of the colonists with PBS documentaries comparing George Washington to Hitler.
These documentaries already exist, they just haven't gone mainstream. Yet.
We celebrate Columbus Day and the Fourth of July because that is our history. Had the Aztecs, the Mayans or the Iroquois Confederation developed the necessary technology and skills to cross the Atlantic and begin colonizing Europe, the fate of its native inhabitants would have been far uglier. The different perspectives on history often depend on which side you happen to be on.
To Americans, the Alamo is a shining moment of heroism. To the Mexicans who are the heirs of a colonialist empire far more ruthless than anything to be found north of the Rio Grande, the war was a plot to conquer Mexican territory. And neither side is altogether wrong, but choosing which version of history to go by is the difference between being an American or a Mexican.
A nation's mythology, its paragons and heroes, its founding legends and great deeds, are its soul. To replace them with another culture's perspective on its history is to kill that soul.
That is the ultimate goal of political correctness, to kill America's soul. To stick George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, James Bowie, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and all the rest on a shelf in a back room somewhere, and replace them with timelier liberal heroes. Move over Washington, Caesar Chavez needs this space. No more American heroes need apply.
Followed of course by no more America.
This is how it begins. And that is how it ends. Nations are not destroyed by atomic bombs or economic catastrophes; they are lost when they lose any reason to go on living. When they no longer have enough pride to go on fighting to survive.The final note of politically correct lunacy comes from a headline in the Columbus Dispatch about the Columbus Day festival in the city of Columbus, Ohio. "Italian Festival honors controversial explorer with its own Columbus Day parade".
Once the great discover of America, Columbus is now dubbed "controversial" by a newspaper named after him, in a city named after him .And if he is controversial, how can naming a city after him and a newspaper after the city not be equally controversial?
Can the day when USA Today has a headline reading, "Some cities still plan controversial 4th of July celebration of American independence" be far behind?
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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Monday, September 4, 2017
Leftists Dump Columbus, Celebrate Aztecs Instead
The Social Justice Warriors are on the march. They’ve just attacked a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus in Yonkers, New York. It was found beheaded. A Columbus statue in Baltimore was vandalized. “New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is currently reviewing a statue of the explorer at Columbus Circle as part of a larger look into racist monuments in the city.” (Axios) Here’s a curious fact about Columbus Circle. “Columbus Circle … is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured.” I learned this from watching the film Columbus Circle. If the statues of Christopher Columbus have to go, what about the cities named after the explorer? .........To Read More.....