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Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden Says We Should 'Protect' Columbus, Washington and Jefferson Statues [View all]
Source: Newsweek
Former Vice President Joe Biden said during a press conference Tuesday the government has a "responsibility to protect" the statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
"Taking down, toppling the Christopher Columbus statue or the George Washington statue, I think that is something that the government has an opportunity and a responsibility to protect from happening," Biden said when asked about his thoughts on monuments and statues being removed across the country.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/biden-says-we-should-protect-columbus-washington-jefferson-statues-1514516
Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus
Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ... Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."
https://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/people/top-5-atrocities-committed-by-christopher-columbus/collection_76ebb2b8-f63d-11e3-a137-001a4bcf887a.html#5
We should not have monuments to a sociopath and serial killer. Monuments to Columbus are spitting in the face of Indigenous People.
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Biden Says We Should 'Protect' Columbus, Washington and Jefferson Statues [View all]
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
OP
If you want to sell out indigenous people for the chance at a few Trump supporters, maybe.
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#2
Exactly. Focus on winning the WH and both houses of Congress. If that is accomplished, then
still_one
Jul 2020
#40
Your Argument Doesn't deserve a Rational Response Because You are Out on an Island of One
Stallion
Jul 2020
#78
Well find me a newer poll that shows different results & I'll change my view.
Drunken Irishman
Jul 2020
#27
Because that "process" has worked out so well in the past for Indigenous People.
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#16
The good that Washington & Jefferson did outweighs the bad. Columbus? Not so much. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#13
Why should Indigenous peoples put any faith in the white man's process?
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#21
He didn't say we should stop agitating. He said that certain monuments should be protected.
Politicub
Jul 2020
#76
Biden would be wise to sit out "statue-gate" and let Agent Orange take all the heat
flibbitygiblets
Jul 2020
#39
totaly agree with Biden, the only shame we have are with Confederate monuments
beachbumbob
Jul 2020
#49
The confederate statues are there to celebrate people who believed in owning other people,
still_one
Jul 2020
#51
You know there will be non nude statues of a President Trump erected somewhere someday.
Marcuse
Jul 2020
#53
AGREED!!!! This is not to say that new places cant be found for them and/or other
Kashkakat v.2.0
Jul 2020
#74