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Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 29, 2020, 11:52 pm
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OLD CONTENT:
The recently ongoing movement to remove colonialist statues
started with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall
[quote]Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall) was a protest movement
that began on 9 March 2015, originally directed against a statue
at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that commemorates Cecil
Rhodes. The campaign for the statue's removal received global
attention[2][3] and led to a wider movement to "decolonise"
education across South Africa.[3][4] On 9 April2015, following a
UCT Council vote the previous night, the statue was removed.
Rhodes Must Fall captured national headlines throughout 2015 and
sharply divided public opinion in South Africa. It also inspired
the emergence of allied student movements at other universities,
both within South Africa and elsewhere in the world.[/quote]
then in the US acquired an understandable emphasis on removing
Confederate monuments:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memor
ials
[quote]In the wake of the Charleston church shooting in June
2015, several municipalities in the United States removed
monuments and memorials on public property dedicated to the
Confederate States of America. The momentum accelerated in
August 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville,
Virginia.[1][2][3] The removals were driven by the belief that
the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a
government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and
expansion of slavery.[4][5][6][7][8] Many of those who object to
the removals, like President Trump, claim that the artifacts are
part of the cultural heritage of the United States.[9][/quote]
though also including some other statues:
hyperallergic.com/430694/san-francisco-racist-statute/
but elsewhere retains its primarily anti-colonialist focus:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/toppling-statues-n
elsons-column-should-be-next-slavery
www.ft.com/content/7ae28cf4-8e09-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/06/canada-halifax-statue-edwa
rd-cornwallis
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/02/captain-cook-statue-removed-
new-zealand-mountain-maori-protests/
The most common rightist criticism of this movement is to accuse
it of being an attempt to somehow "erase history", which is of
course nonsense. Far from wanting to erase history, we are
positively generating public interest in history by revisiting
who built the statues, what the statues mean to their builders,
why they deserve to beremoved, and indeed why it took so long
for calls for their removal to begin. We are certainly not
trying to make people forget the existence of the historical
figures portrayed by the statues. If we were, we wouldalso be
trying to ban teaching of colonial history, which not even
rightists accuse us of (in fact they tend to accuse us of the
opposite: of excessively promoting the teaching of colonial
history!). No, a statue of a historical figure represents
celebration or veneration of that figure. That is what we are
opposed to: a colonialist statue still standing in a supposedly
post-colonial country implies that the country has not yet
really been decolonized, at least not in spirit. The truth is
that rightists to this day remain proud of the colonial era,
which iswhy they are defending their statues. Some are honest
enough to admit this, others are not, but these two groups stand
together in defending their statues.
What makes the rightist position all the more absurd is that
many of these rightists claim to be "nationalists". By defending
colonialist statues, they prove they are anything but.
Nationalism is anti-colonialism. We who call for the removal of
colonialist statues are the true nationalists, and we should be
proudly taking back this label (among others):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall#Supporting_student_who_ma
de_Pro-Hitler_and_anti-Semitic_remarks
[quote]On 25 April 2015, Mcebo Dlamini, then president of the
Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of Wits University (a
South African public research university), stated in a Facebook
post that he “loves Adolf Hitler” … Dlamini later declared
during a radio interview on PowerFM that “Jews are devils,” a
remark which led the South African Jewish Board of Deputies to
lay criminal charges of hate speech against him.[/quote]
Nevertheless, I suggest that in order to sidestep the rightist
invective as efficiently as possible, we could consider (as an
alternative to removing entire statues) just decapitating each
statue and displaying the disembodied head hanging adjacent to
the rest of the statue. This would visually prove beyond any
doubt that we are not trying to make people think that the
colonialists (and, by inference, the colonial era)never existed,
but merely declaring what we think of colonialists.
As for the issue of legality, the basic line of reasoning is
adequately covered as follows:
www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/10/maya-little-trial-1021
[quote]Holmes tried to build a case that Little’s actions —
dousing the statue and its pedestal in red paint and her blood —
were justified under the necessity defense, which asserts that
citizens can violate laws that contradict the big-picture wishes
of the Constitution.
“In our history, people have had to commit crimes in order to
raise the issues,” Holmes said. “Because the laws and the
government’s complicity in racism has required them to break the
law.”
Holmes linked Little’s case to that of the Friendship Nine, a
group of black men who were arrested for staging a sit-in at a
segregated lunch counter in South Carolina in 1961.
“It sometimes becomes necessary to breaksome sort of technical
minor law in order to vindicate the broader values of the
Constitution,” Holmes said.
In 2015, the FriendshipNine's convictions were ceremoniously
overturned. At court, the judge — the nephew of the judge who
originally sentenced the group — said, "We cannot rewrite
history, but we can right history.”
Holmes said henoted comparisons in the cases to argue that
Little’s charges were the same sort of situation, civil
disobedience that would be considered favorably in the eyes of
history, like the illegal assistance northerners gave to slaves
on the Underground Railroad, a violation of the Fugitive Slave
Act.
The Equal Protection Clause has also beencited in lawsuits
pertaining to courthouses’ display of the Confederateflag, but
those cases were civil whereas Little’s was criminal. The
combination of the necessity defense in conjunction with the
Equal Protection violation is new, Holmes said.[/quote]
Please use this topic not only to discuss the issue, but to post
news updates on particular statue removal campaigns, and to
point out currently untargeted statues that you would like to
see removed. If we could eventually build up full lists of
colonialist statues in every country, that would be awesome.
...
Here is a good one:
www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2018/10/18/The-Stone-Mountain-c
arving-plays-a-complicated-role-in-the-race-for-Georgia-governor
/stories/201810180211
[quote]Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and former State House minority
leader, is the firstblack woman in the country to win a major
party’s nomination for governor, and it was Ms. Abrams, 44, who
injected Stone Mountain into the contest.
...
In a flurry of posts on Twitter, Ms. Abrams declared the Stone
Mountain carving “a blight on our state,” and called for it to
be removed.
...
her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, haschosen a different
focus, winning his party’s primary with a series of provocative
ads in which he brandished a shotgun and said he might use his
own pickup truck to deport “criminal illegals.”
Mr. Kemp, who is white, has, like President Donald Trump,
denounced the movement to take down Confederate monuments. In
July, as the Atlanta NAACP planned aprotest calling for the
removal of the Stone Mountain carving, Mr. Kempsaid on Facebook
that he would protect it from “the radical left.”
...
The idea to carve the side of the mountain was hatched in 1914.
The next year, the Klan, which had faded after first emerging
during Reconstruction, was revived atop the mountain with a
cross burning.
Proponents of the carving had strong Klan ties, with one early
booster, Helen Plane, even suggesting that Klansmen be included
in the carving. The group, she wrote, “saved us from Negro
domination and carpetbag rule.”
The carving effort stalled during the Great Depression, but in
1954, MarvinGriffin, a candidate for governor, stumped on a
promise to uphold segregation in the wake of the Brown v. Board
of Education ruling — and to finish the carving.
After Mr. Griffin’s election, the state bought the land in 1958,
writing into law that it was meant to be operated as a
“perpetual memorial” to the Confederacy.[/quote]
This is what the carving looks like:
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Cananyone seriously deny that the mountainside would have looked
infinitely better if left untouched? What, then, does this say
about theaesthetic sense of those responsible for this overt
vandalism? The Stone Mountain carving is a symbolic microcosm of
Western civilization, whose very existence is a form of
continuous rudeness and disrespect towards everything around it.
Removing the carving now, of course, will not restore the
mountainside to what it used to be before the carving was made,
and so be it. Let the indelible scar on the stone stand as a
brutally honest reminder of the blight upon the world that
Western civilization has been. Nevertheless, erasing the carving
itself will at least show that we have had enough of tolerating
its hubris in thinking that its existence actually improved the
world when it could not be moreaesthetically clear that nothing
could be further from the truth.
(Offtopic, here is an example of how to make mountainsides look
better:
agrifarmingtips.com/terrace-step-farming-inca-advantages-and-dis
advantages/
)
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6462695/Mayor-removes-highly-va
luable-Gainsborough-painting-office-links-slave-trade.html
[quote]Cleo Lake took down the 'dull and dated' portrait of Lord
Nugent from the walls of City Hall in Bristol.
Paintedby the artist Thomas Gainsborough, the portrait shows
Lord Nugent holding a copy of the 1750 Act for the Regulation of
the Slave Trade, which he helped pass through parliament.
...
Earlier this year, the Mayor took down a portrait of the Bristol
slave trader Edward Colston, whose ships transported nearly
100,000 Africans to the Americas.[/quote]
And as always we get to learn a bit more about history in the
process:
[quote]WHAT WERE LORD NUGENT'S LINKS TO THE SLAVE TRADE?
The politician Robert Craggs Nugent (1709-1788) represented
Bristol in the House of Commons from 1754 until 1774.
By 1782, he had become the longest continually-serving member of
the Commons, and so became the Father of the House.
He was involved in the 1750 Act of Parliament.
The1750 Act dissolved the Royal Africa Company and transferred
its assets to the African Company of Merchants - the slave
trading posts that existed in what is now Ghana.
This was an important step in turning the transatlantic slave
trade from a lucrative one for Bristol merchants into a trade
that took place on an industrial scale.[/quote]
[quote]Edward Colston: Bristol's beloved son and wealthy slave
trader
Edward Colston was born to a wealthy merchant family in Bristol,
1636.
After working as an apprentice at a livery company he began to
explore the shipping industry and started up his own business.
He later joined the Royal African Company and rose up the ranks
to Deputy Governor.
TheCompany had complete control of Britain's slave trade, as
well as its gold and Ivory business, with Africa and the forts
on the coast of west Africa.
During his tenure at the Company his ships transported around
80,000 slaves from Africa to the Caribbean and America.
Around 20,000 of them, including around 3,000 or more children,
died during the journeys.
...
Aa statue commemorating Colston in Bristol, a plaque reads:
'Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most
virtuous and wise sons of their city.'
There are at least 20 roads, schools, pubs, businesses and
buildings named after Edward Colston, and the slave trader is
still commemorated and celebrated in the city.[/quote]
WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
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www.independent.co.uk/voices/poll-shows-brits-are-proud-of-colon
ialism-clearly-they-havent-heard-of-these-colonial-crimes-a68231
51.html
[quote]When we are taught about Empire we are rarely given the
gruesome details that counter the idea of Britain being a
benevolent Imperial power. Thisis partly due to a whitewashing
of history curriculums. This was only exacerbated by attempts
from Michael Gove to turn the history syllabus into nationalist
propaganda. To add to this views put forward by pop historians
such as Andrew Roberts serve to glorify Empire.
...
David Cameron ruled out apologizing for the slave trade and the
Amritsar massacre. This is in spite of the fact that Cameron and
his wife have ancestral links to the slave trade.[/quote]
The more statues pulled down, the more chances to raise
awareness of history. It is happening, even if slowly:
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/14/racist-gandhi-statue-remov
ed-from-university-of-ghana
[quote]Students at the university welcomed the decision to
remove the statue. “It’s a massive win for all Ghanaians because
it was constantly reminding us of how inferior we are,” Benjamin
Mensah told Agence France-Presse.
The head of language, literature and drama at the Institute of
African Studies, Obadele Kambon, said the removal was an issue
of “self-respect”.
“If we show that we have no respect for ourselvesand look down
on our own heroes and praise others who had no respect for us,
then there is an issue,” he said.
“If we indeed don’t show any self-respect for our heroes, how
can the world respect us? Thisis victory for black dignity and
self-respect. The campaign has paid off.”[/quote]
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One McKinley statue down:
www.times-standard.com/2019/02/28/mckinley-statue-removed-from-a
rcata-plaza/
Good job!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#Peace_and_territorial_gai
n
[quote]McKinleyalso pursued the annexation of the Republic of
Hawaii. The new republic, dominated by business interests, had
overthrown the Queen in 1893 when she rejected a limited role
for herself.[159] ... McKinley biographer H. Wayne Morgan notes,
"McKinley was the guiding spirit behind the annexation of
Hawaii, showing ... a firmness in pursuing it";[162] the
President told Cortel, "We need Hawaii just as much and a good
deal more than we did California. It is manifest
destiny."[163][/quote]
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As you may know, Portugal has a verylong history of colonialism,
and a history of being very proud of it. In the 1940s, during
the nationalist dictatorship of the Estado Novo, they erected a
"Monument to the Discoveries" (Padrão dos Descobrimentos):
This disgusting 52-meter-high colossus celebrates the main
figures associated with Portuguese colonialism. The square right
in front of it has a similarly colossal compass rose and a world
map, gifts of none other than Apartheid South Africa.
In a country such as this, public talks of decolonization are
almost non-existent. But there are things in the works, and I
mentioned that monument for this recent exhibition about Africa
being held in it:
www.padraodosdescobrimentos.pt/pt/evento/visita-conversada-com-2
/
The significance of such a thing being held in that specific
monument should not be lost on us.
---
globalnews.ca/news/5081694/sir-john-a-macdonald-statue-vandalize
d-once-again-in-downtown-montreal/
[quote]Activists calling themselves #MacdonaldMustFall group
claimed responsibility, saying the vandalism comes on the
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
promulgated by the United Nations and was done in solidarity
with other worldwide actions against racism.[/quote]
Keep the pressure on!
theconversation.com/john-a-macdonald-should-not-be-forgotten-nor
-celebrated-101503
[quote]even by historical standards, a story by Rachel Décoste
in the Huffington Post shows that Macdonald was “way more racist
than his contemporaries.”
...
while Macdonald was prime minister, the Métis were attacked
twice, the Canadian army led an unprovoked attack against Chief
Poundmaker’s people, many First Nations and Métis leaders were
jailed (with a number of them dying in jail or shortly after
they were released), Louis Riel was hanged for treason even
though he was an American citizen, the largest mass execution in
Canadian history occurred with the hanging of eight Cree and
Assiniboine men in North Battleford, Sask. The Indian Actwas
amended and became much more oppressive and punitive and a
starvation policy was implemented.[/quote]
Further reading:
rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/jesse/2015/01/10-crimes-john-macdonald
www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/01/13/should_we_really_b
e_celebrating_sir_john_a_macdonalds_birthday.html
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www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-hostil
e-indians-sign-20190430-story.html
[quote]A historical marker at Fort Garrison in Stevenson has
been removed after officials received a complaint regarding its
use of the term “hostile Indians.”
...
It is indicative of weighted language and bias that some
Americans have toward Native American history, Harley said, and
no trepresentative of the fact that the original colonists
forcibly displaced the native population, mostly through
violence and force.
...
the bishop brushed aside the idea of preserving the marker’s
historical significance, even in the sense that it represents a
period of time in which these sentiments were more widely
accepted.
In response, he quoted a West African proverb that says, “The
lion’s story will never be known as long as the hunter is the
one to tell it.”[/quote]
(Next, Israel will talk about "hostile Palestinians".....)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2020, 12:17 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Going hand in hand with removal of colonialist monuments is
building of anti-colonialist monuments:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-48724128
[quote]A monument honouring the "tremendous contribution" of the
Windrush generation is to be erected in London.
...
Events are taking place across the country on Saturday to mark
the first National Windrush Day.
...
BaronessFloella Benjamin, chair of the Windrush Commemoration
Committee, said: "Having a Windrush monument located at Waterloo
Station where thousands of Windrush pioneers - including
children like myself - first arrived inLondon, will be a
symbolic link to our past as we celebrate our future."
Janice Irwin, from community group Ageless Teenagers, described
the plans as "fantastic", but also "long overdue", and said
itwas "a little strange" that it would be built at Waterloo
Station, and not Brixton where many people from the Windrush
generation settled.
Some of the Windrush generation were wrongly told after they had
lived in the UK for decades they were in the country illegally.
Many lost their right to work or get NHS treatment, while others
were detained or deported.
Thethen Home Secretary Amber Rudd apologised last year for the
deportationthreats, calling the scandal "wrong" and "appalling".
An estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK have been
called the Windrush generation.
TheHMT Empire Windrush first arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on
22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in
the UK.[/quote]
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-08/sydney-statues-of-colonial-leader
s-in-spotlight-again/11285380
[quote]There are 25 publicly funded statues of the colony's
early leaders around the CBD.
Amongthem are Captain Cook, Governor Arthur Phillip, Lachlan
Macquarie, Queen Victoria, explorer Matthew Flinders and even
his cat Trim.
...
"It'sbreathtakingly hard trying to feel proud walking around
seeing statues of people that my old people have told me have
declared martial law on us."[/quote]
So far so good. But then:
[quote]Mr Moran said a statue of a prominent Indigenous leader
would be a small but significant step towards
reconciliation.[/quote]
It's the colonialist statues that have to be taken down,not
merely other statues added. No non-colonialist statues should be
built before the last colonialist statue has been removed, in
the same way that we lower the colonial flag prior to raising
our own flag. Otherwise subjects the non-colonialist symbol to
the indignity of sharing space with the colonialist symbol.
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Medals count as statues:
rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/bill-seeks-to-remove-stain-of-wo
unded-knee-massacre-medals/article_ef12b305-8252-5f80-8541-7f3cf
d015c2d.html
[quote]Newfederal legislation seeks to “Remove the Stain” from
the Medal of Honorby rescinding 20 medals that were awarded to
soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
...
The massacre happened on Dec. 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South
Dakota. A force of 490 U.S. soldiers — armed with rapid-fire,
wheel-mounted artillery guns — was attempting todisarm a camp of
about 370 Lakota Sioux people when a shot rang out andchaotic
firing ensued.
A total of 31 soldiers died during the encounter or afterward
from their wounds, compared to hundreds of NativeAmericans.
Although precise estimates of Native American deaths vary, the
Remove the Stain Act says there were 350 to 375 Native American
fatalities, nearly two-thirds of whom were unarmed women and
children.
...
Afterthe massacre, some of the Native American dead were left on
the frozen ground for several days before a military-led burial
party dumped the bodies in a mass grave. Today, that grave is
marked by a small, weathered monument that was erected in 1903.
The Army awarded 20 Medals of Honor — the nation’s highest
military award — to soldiers who participated in the massacre.
...
Thelegislation, if passed by Congress and signed by the
president, would require the names of the 20 medal winners to be
removed from the government’s official Medal of Honor Roll.
...
The findings in thenew legislation also mention the historical
writings and statements of Maj. Gen. Nelson Miles, who was not
present at the massacre but commanded all of the Army’s
departments west of the Mississippi River atthe time.
Drawing from a letter Miles wrote in 1891, the legislation
quotes him stating, “I have never heard of a more brutal,
cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee.”[/quote]
Western civilization itself is a stain on the New World that
needs removing.
(Notonly should the medals be rescinded, but all known
descendants of the soldiers who participated in the massacre
should be prohibited by the state from reproducing.)
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RIXrfz2x1E
Visitor comment: I agree with most of what he's saying, only the
notion that people who never owned slaves should pay
"reparations" to people who never were slaves, in apology for
slavery existing - something that no one today was even alive to
see - is retarded. I thinka much better course of action, one
that won't actually deepen ethnic division, is to remove these
monuments and to shift the cultural forces of the US towards
Univeralism rather than tribalism.
90sRF response: He wasn't necessarily demanding reparations, but
rather pointing out that the same people unwilling to pay
reparations gladly pay for stuff to celebrate historical slave
owners. If people who had nothing to do with slavery themselves
solely cared about keeping their own money, they shouldn't be
willing to pay for either. Unwillingness to pay only for the
former can therefore be deduced to be caused by something other
than merely people who had nothing to do with slavery wanting to
keep their own money.
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HTML https://summit.new
s/2019/07/25/video-algerians-tear-down-statue-of-general-de-gaul
le-in-france/
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People are catching on to our way of thinking:
www.campusreform.org/?ID=13537
[quote]Aimedat UVA President James Ryan, the petition entitled
"Remove Monument to Genocide that Welcomes People to UVA," as
reported by Newsweek, calls for UVA to scrap a statue of George
Rogers Clark, a leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and
brother of William Clark. The petition has received 450 total
signatures, just 50 signatures shy of its final goal,at
publication time.
Inscribed text underneath the statue reads “George Rogers Clark:
Conqueror of the Northwest.”
“Remove the statue of George Rogers Clark engaged in genocide to
a museum where it can be presented as a shameful memory,” the
petition demands. “The statue of George Rogers Clark at UVA
depictsa white man on a horse dressed for war….He has other men
behind him with a gun and a barrel of gun powder, and he appears
to be reaching back for a gun with his right hand. There are
four Native Americans in front of him, including one infant.”
...
Richard Handler, an anthropology professor at UVA, told the
Cavalier Daily that the statue could be moved to an exhibit to
teach people about genocidal behavior against Native Americans.
“People need to realize that statues were not handed down from
God but are human creations of specific times,places and
peoples,” Handler said. “As our thinking changes, there’s
absolutely nothing wrong with removing, destroying, or even
rededicatinga statue.”[/quote]
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Another history lesson:
www.startribune.com/the-real-history-of-mount-rushmore/388715411
/
[quote]Thecarved visages are iconic Americana, appearing in a
gazillion media photos and books and travel features, in
advertisements and promotions, on U.S. postage stamps in two
eras, and on South Dakota’s license plate (“Great Faces. Great
Places.”).
But the back story of Mount Rushmore is hardly a rich history of
a shared democratic ideal. Some seethe monument in the Black
Hills as one of the spoils of violent conquest over indigenous
tribes by a U.S. Army clearing the way for white settlers driven
westward by a lust for land and gold.[/quote]
Actually, violent conquest of minorities by the majority is the
democratic ideal.
[quote]As it was in colonial America, the young country’s
expansion was fueled by “Manifest Destiny” — a self-supreme
notion that any land coveted by Euro-Americans was, by
providence, rightfully theirs for the taking.
...
Thesculptures were chiseled by an imported Ku Klux Klansman on a
granite mountain owned by indigenous tribes on what they
considered sacred land — land that the U.S. Supreme Court said
in 1980 was illegally taken from them.
...
Theso-called “Indian wars” featured the U.S. Army aggressively
enforcing America’s expansionist resolve by exterminating
indigenous tribes who sought to stay where they’d always been.
Indians would lose nearly everybloody battle that would follow.
...
the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 granting Lakota autonomy over a
broad, 60-million-acre region encompassing all of South Dakota
west of the Missouri River — including the Black Hills — and
parts of North Dakota and Nebraska.
...
But like every tribal treaty before and since, the U.S. reneged
on its Fort Laramie promises almost immediately by failing to
prevent small-scale incursions into “The Great Sioux
Reservation.”
Justsix years after Laramie, Gen. George Custer led a U.S. Army
expedition out of Fort Lincoln (present-day Bismarck, N.D.) into
the Black Hills toexplore suitable sites for forts and routes to
them. The action was a purposely provocative treaty violation.
Anothermission, to assess the presence of gold, would hasten the
treaty’s demise. Custer rosily trumpeted that gold was found,
unleashing a torrent of prospectors that the U.S. chose not to
contain.
After a failed bid to buy the Black Hills, the U.S. determined
to drive out the Lakota and simply take the area’s riches.Fierce
resistance by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull was worn down by the
Army’s big guns and well-supplied legions, mostly dispatched
from Minnesota’s Fort Snelling.
...
Atwar’s end, the “victorious” U.S. carved up the Great Sioux
Reservation by first taking back the Black Hills and broad
swaths of buffers. The Lakota were forced onto mostly useless
land, including the Pine Ridge Reservation on South Dakota’s
southern border.
...
On a bitter December day in 1890, a U.S. cavalry contingent
intercepted a band of ghost-dancing Lakota and attempted to
confiscate what few guns they had. A shot rang out, and panicked
soldiers opened fire from all sides, killing150 men, women and
children before hunting down scores of unarmed Lakota and
shooting them point-blank as they struggled in the snow.
The infamous Wounded Knee Massacre (incredibly, the U.S. called
it a “battle” and awarded medals to its “heroes”) was the last
of America’s long, violent campaigns to subdue indigenous tribes
all across the continent.
...
Threedecades after Wounded Knee, in 1923, a South Dakota tourism
agent advanced an idea for several large sculptures in the Black
Hills. He enlisted the support of the renowned Gutzon Borglum,
whose most recent work had been carving Stone Mountain, Ga., a
grand gathering site for a white supremacist group Borglum
belonged to, the Ku Klux Klan.
...
AtMount Rushmore, you may learn that the sculptures are arranged
for maximum sun exposure, itself a cruel irony: The faces of the
four presidents (white conquerors) peer southeast toward a
reservation housing vanquished Lakota, who mostly live out
forgotten, impoverished lives in the shadow of their sacred Paha
Sapa that, legally, still belong to them.[/quote]
This is called democracy.
The Mount Rushmore sculptures must be destroyed. (They are
extremely ugly anyway, and utterly ruin the entire mountainscape
in the most tasteless way possible. In this sense this perfectly
captures how Western civilization interacts with everything it
encounters. We should certainly keep photos to show students in
a post-Western future.)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2020, 1:42 am
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About time:
news.yahoo.com/long-mexico-icon-spanish-conquistador-040345048.h
tml
[quote]ALBUQUERQUE,N.M. (AP) — The Spanish conquistador is an
image found throughout New Mexico, the most Hispanic state in
the United States.
Depictions of men such as 17th century explorers Don Juan de
Oñate and Don Diego deVargas have long adorned murals and been
honored at commemorations as symbols of the region's Hispanic
heritage.
In recent years, however, the conquistador and all the effigies
connected to it have come under intense criticism. Anew
generation of Native American and Latino activists is demanding
that conquistador imagery and names be removed from seals,
schools and streets. They say the figure's connection to
colonialism and indigenous genocide makes the conquistador
outdated, highlighting the region's changing attitudes about its
colonial past.
Activists convinced organizers of the yearly Santa Fe Fiesta to
abandon "the Entrada" — a recreation of de Vargas recapturing
Santa Fe for the Spanish from Pueblo tribes. Under pressure,
Santa Fe's public school district also announced it would limit
when conquistador reenactors visit. This month, the University
of New Mexico said it's looking for a new design for its
official seal following protests from Native Americans over
concerns about the current seal with a conquistador.
ElenaOrtiz, president of the Santa Fe chapter of The Red Nation,
a Native American advocacy group, said the developments come
after years of activism and public campaigns seeking to change
perceptions about the conquistador.
More needs to be done, she said.
"We still have Don Diego parading around," Ortiz said. "This
symbol of genocide should not be allowed in public schools."
...
NickEstes, an American Studies professor at the University of
New Mexico and co-founder of The Red Nation, said activists want
state leaders to stop lionizing the region's violent colonial
past and recognize the history of Native Americans.
This fight is worse than the battle over U.S. Civil War-era
Confederate monuments in the American South, he said.
"Atleast there's an acknowledgment of this country's legacy with
slavery,"Estes said. "This country has not acknowledged its
legacy with indigenous genocide."[/quote]
therednation.org/
(They also support BDS:
therednation.org/2019/09/07/the-liberation-of-palestine-represen
ts-an-alternative-path-for-native-nations/
)
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Holidays also count as statues:
www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-columbus-da
y-indigenous-people-20191011-3qaxw2omv5csfdgumzh727iavm-story.ht
ml
[quote]Commentary: Will Columbus Day give way to Indigenous
Peoples Day? More communities are making the shift.
...
ColumbusDay is a relatively new federal holiday. In 1892, a
joint congressionalresolution prompted President Benjamin
Harrison to mark the “discovery of America by Columbus,” in part
because of “the devout faith of the discoverer and for the
divine care and guidance which has directed our history and so
abundantly blessed our people.”
Europeans invoked God’s will to impose their will on indigenous
people. So it seemed logical to call on God when establishing a
holiday celebrating that conquest too.
Of course, not all Americans considered themselves blessed in
1892. That same year, a lynching forced black journalist Ida B.
Wells to flee her hometown of Memphis. And while Ellis Island
had opened in January of that year, welcoming European
immigrants, Congress had already banned Chinese immigration a
decade prior, subjecting Chinese people living in the U.S. to
widespread persecution.
...
Today,cities with significant native populations, such as
Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, celebrate either Native
American Day or Indigenous Peoples Day. And states such as
Hawaii, Nevada, Minnesota, Alaska and Maine have also formally
recognized their Native populations with similar holidays. Many
Native governments, including the Cherokee and Osage in
Oklahoma, either don’t observe Columbus Day or have replaced
itwith their own holiday.
...
While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by
Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes
Native histories and Native people — an important addition tothe
country’s ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be
American.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbMJ3DGph4
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HTML https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/columbus-statue-defaced-with-red-paint-near-coit-tower/
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More success:
pix11.com/2019/10/14/columbus-park-in-milwaukee-renamed-indigeno
us-peoples-park/
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At least they got our message about Ghandi:
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/students-call-to-block-manchester-gan
dhi-statue-because-hes-racist-a4262711.html
[quote]The city council approved a 9ft bronze statue of the
Indian independence figure to be erected outside Manchester
Cathedral to promote peace following the 2017 Manchester Arena
terror attack that killed 22 people.
But a group of students are calling for the council to reverse
its decision due to Gandhi’s “well-documented anti-black racism
and complicity in the British Empire's action in Africa".
In an openletter, the students demanded a statement
acknowledging his “racism”, an apology and to reverse the
decision while redirecting funds to commemorate a black
anti-racist activist.
The group says that Gandhi "saw himself as a ‘fellow-colonist'
...
It adds: "In 1905, Gandhi appealed to laws asking Indians to
fight againstthe amaZulu, and collected funds to finance the
execution of Black people fighting for self-determination and
the right to their homeland.
"These actions and thoughts are of course not documented in his
autobiography,but they are well documented throughout his
earlier correspondence and writings."
The letter was posted under the hashtag #GandhiMustFall, which
was previously used during efforts to remove a similar statue at
the University of Ghana.[/quote]
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www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-council-set-to-ditch-australi
a-day-celebrations-20191105-p537o5.html
[quote]AustraliaDay celebrations in Sydney's inner west are set
to be scrapped in favour of the Aboriginal festival Yabun under
a council proposal aimed at a "more respectful" approach to the
national holiday.
...
LaborMayor Darcy Byrne said moving the Australia Day
celebrations at Enmore Park to a different date would stop it
from competing with Yabun and recognise that for Aboriginal
people it is a day of sadness rather than celebration.
"We're seeking to take a more respectful approach toJanuary 26
and acknowledge that for Aboriginal people it marks the onset of
colonisation, dispossession, the removal of children and the
deliberate destruction of language and culture," Mr Byrne said.
"There'sa growing number of local communities and people across
Australia that think the 26th of January should be a
commemoration not a celebration and the ongoing hurt that
Aboriginal people feel shouldn't be exacerbated through
fireworks and festivals."
...
The proposal will come before council next Tuesday night and is
likely to pass with the support of Labor councillors and the
Greens.[/quote]
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www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/chile-statues-indigenous-m
apuche-conquistadors
[quote]In the urban centre of Temuco, hooded demonstrators
lassoed a statue of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador last
week and yanked it to the ground.
Cheering bystanders – many wearing the traditional ponchos and
headbands of the indigenous Mapuche people – stamped on the
bronze effigy of Pedro de Valdivia and hammered it with wooden
staffs.
In the city of Concepción – which Valdivia found in 1550 – a
crowd toppled another bust of the Spanish coloniser, impaled it
on a spike, and barbecued it at the feet of a statue of his
historical nemesis, the Mapuche chieftain Lautaro.
Inthe nearby town of Collipulli, a bronze of General Cornelio
Saavedra – notorious for leading the bloody 19th-century
“pacification” of the Mapuche heartland – suffered a similar
fate.
Most dramatically of all, a statue in Temuco of the Chilean
military aviator Dagoberto Godoy (1893-1960) was decapitated,and
his head hung from the arm of a statue of the Mapuche warrior
Caupolicán – now also holding the Mapuche flag, or Wenufoye.
...
Theattacks on symbols of Spanish colonial rule have provoked a
war of words recalling debates in the US over monuments to
Confederate generals, or in the UK regarding prominent statues
of slavers and imperialists.
Conservative Chilean commentators have branded themacts of
vandalism and the work of “professional agitators”. Others
describe an organic – if overexuberant – desire to challenge
established historical narratives.
“These are actions of a very potent symbolism, in rejecting an
official version that has falsified and grossly airbrushed our
history,” said Pedro Cayuqueo, a Mapuche writer and historian.
“There’s something far deeper going on.”
...
Such demands are shared by smaller aboriginal groups like the
Diaguita, an Andean desert people with some 90,000
self-identified descendants. Protesters in the northern city of
La Serena likewise felled and burneda statue of the conquistador
Francisco de Aguirre in late October, replacing it with an image
of “Milanka”, a Diaguita woman.[/quote]
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Demographic Blueshift harvest:
news.yahoo.com/democrats-wins-could-help-bring-144259907.html
[quote]RICHMOND,Va. (AP) — An army of Confederate monuments dots
Virginia's landscape but some of those statues could soon start
coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the
General Assembly for the first time indecades.
Members of the new legislative majority say they plan to revive
proposals to make it easier to remove the public displays
honoring Civil War soldiers and generals in a state that was
home to twoConfederate capitals. Previous attempts to do so were
quickly dispatched in the Republican-controlled General
Assembly, in votes largely along party lines.
...
Across the state, officials have catalogued 168 war memorials,
136 of which are dedicated to Confederate participants in the
Civil War.
...
Another occasional target of criticism is a statue of prominent
segregationist Harry F. Byrd Sr., a former Virginia governor and
U.S. senator who's considered the architectof the state's
"massive resistance" policy to public school integration. His
figure in bronze stands on the Capitol square.[/quote]
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Vegan edition!
au.news.yahoo.com/cambridge-university-removes-painting-after-ve
gans-complain-115638812.html
[quote]A college at Cambridge University in England has removed
a 17th century painting from the wall of its dining hall after
students complained it was putting them off their food.
Hughes Hall reportedly received complaints from vegan students
about The Fowl Market, which shows a collection of dead animals
hanging from hooks.
The painting, by Flemish artist Frans Snyders, was on long-term
loan from the university’s Fitzwilliam Museum but has now been
taken down.[/quote]
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Warren is in:
news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-revoking-medals-wounded-knee-mas
sacre-140752378.html
[quote]WASHINGTON― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
introduced legislation on Wednesday that would rescind 20 Medals
of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers who slaughtered hundreds of
Lakota Indians — mostly women and children ― in the
Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.
Her bill, the Remove the StainAct, is the Senate version of a
bill introduced in the House in June byDemocratic Reps. Denny
Heck (Wash.), Paul Cook (Calif.) and Deb Haaland(N.M.), one of
two Native American women in Congress.
...
“The horrifying acts of violence against hundreds of Lakota men,
women, and children at Wounded Knee should be condemned, not
celebrated with Medalsof Honor,” Warren said in a statement.
“The Remove the Stain Act acknowledges a profoundly shameful
event in U.S. history, and that’s whyI’m joining my House
colleagues in this effort to advance justice and take a step
toward righting wrongs against Native peoples.”[/quote]
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www.foxnews.com/politics/virginias-ralph-northam-pushes-to-remov
e-robert-e-lee-statue-from-us-capitol
[quote]VirginiaGov. Ralph Northam will push for a bill in the
state legislature to replace the state's statue of Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee that is displayed in the United States
Capitol building.
The office of the Democratic governor will file a request for a
bill that would outline the process for removing the statue and
selecting a replacement.The figure of Lee is one of two statues
from Virginia in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The filing come after two Democratic lawmakers requested Northam
replace the statue as part of his legislative agenda for the new
session that begins in February.[/quote]
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On a lighter note:
www.yahoo.com/news/comedians-mock-confederate-sympathizer-steve-
174718631.html
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www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/9/steny-hoyer-wants-roger-
taney-bust-replaced-thurgo/
[quote]House Democrats said Monday they will try to toss the
bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney from the collection in
the U.S. Capitol, saying the Maryland jurist’s role in writing
the decision in the 1857 Dred Scott ruling makes him unfit for
that honor.
...
“We’re entering a new era where we are reexamining our history
and beginning to look at our history for its good. And also its
bad,” Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass said.
“The removal of Chief Justice Taney’s bust is long overdue in
our nation’s Capitol.”
The Dred Scott decisionconfirmed that the Constitution did not
recognize slaves as U.S. citizens and therefore they could not
sue in federal court. It also declared the Missouri Compromise,
a deal meant to appease escalating tensions over slavery,
unconstitutional, barring Congress from prohibiting slavery in
the western territories.
...
The push to remove Taney’s bust is part of a larger, national
debate over removing statues and monuments dedicated to
historical figures who are seen as controversial by modern
standards.
In Virginia, the Democratic-led state General Assembly passed
measures over the weekend that rolled back protections for
Confederate monuments and allows local governments to decide
whether or not to remove them.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2020, 1:59 am
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Good job!
www.marketwatch.com/story/confederate-statues-and-monuments-beco
me-targets-in-weekend-protests-of-death-of-black-minneapolis-man
-in-police-custody-2020-05-31
[quote]RICHMOND,Va. (AP) — Protesters demonstrating against the
death of George Floyd, ablack man who pleaded for air as a white
police officer pressed his knee on his neck, targeted
Confederate monuments in multiple cities.
Astense protests swelled across the country Saturday into Sunday
morning,monuments in Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and
Mississippi were defaced. The presence of Confederate monuments
across the South — and elsewhere in the United States — has been
challenged for years, and someof the monuments targeted were
already under consideration for removal.
Thewords “spiritual genocide” in black spray paint, along with
red handprints, stained the sides of a Confederate monument on
the University of Mississippi campus Saturday, the Oxford Eagle
reported. One person was arrested at the scene.
Ole Miss administrators, student leaders and faculty leaders
have recommended moving the statue — installed in 1906 and a
rallying point in 1962 for people who rioted tooppose the
university’s court-ordered integration — from a central spotto a
Civil War cemetery that’s in a more secluded location on campus,
but the state College Board has delayed action.
Critics have saidits display near the university’s main
administrative building sends a signal that Ole Miss glorifies
the Confederacy and glosses over the South’s history of slavery.
In Charleston, South Carolina, protesters defaced a Confederate
statue near the Battery, a historic area on the coastal city’s
southern tip. The base of the Confederate Defenders statue,
erected in 1932, was spray-painted, including with thewords
“BLM” and “traitors,” news outlets reported. It was later
coveredwith tarp, photos show.
In North Carolina, the base of a Confederate monument at the
State Capitol was marked with a black X and ashorthand for a
phrase expressing contempt for police, according to a photo
posted by a News & Observer journalist to social media. The word
“racist” was also marked on the monument, the newspaper
reported.
...
Inthe coastal city of Norfolk, protesters climbed a Confederate
monument and spray-painted graffiti on its base, according to
photos posted by a Virginian-Pilot journalist. Norfolk is among
the Virginia cities that have signaled intent to remove their
Confederate monuments. In February,state lawmakers approved
legislation that would give cities autonomy todo so.
A commission in Richmond, the state capital and what was the
capital of the Confederacy, recommended removing one of five
Confederate statues along the city’s famed Monument Avenue.
Photos posted to social media late Saturday and early Sunday
showed the bases of at least two statues — those of Confederate
generals Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart — almost entirely
covered in graffiti. A statue of Confederate President Jefferson
Davis had “cops ran us over,” spray-painted on the base. A noose
had been flung over Davis’ shoulder.
Afire burned for a time at the headquarters of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, a group responsible for erecting
many Confederate statues and fighting their removal. The
building, too, was covered in graffiti, The Richmond
Times-Dispatch reported.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., protesters spray-painted a statue
Saturday of Confederate Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart on
Saturday, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
In Nashville, Tenn., and in Philadelphia, statues of people
criticized for racist views, but without Confederate ties, were
also targeted.
Protesters in Nashville toppled Saturday a statue of Edward
Carmack, a state lawmaker in the early 1900s and newspaper
publisher who had racist views and wrote editorials lambasting
the writings of prominent Tennessee civil-rights journalist Ida
B. Wells, the Tennessean reported.
Protesters sprayed graffiti on a statue of former Philadelphia
Mayor Frank Rizzo, tried to topple it and set a fire at its
base. Rizzo, mayor from 1972 to 1980, was praised by supporters
as tough on crime but accused by critics of discriminating
against people of color. His 10-foot-tall (3-meter-tall) bronze
statue across from City Hall has been defaced before and is to
be moved next year.[/quote]
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Another one down!
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/03/Philadelphia-takes-down-statu
e-of-former-Mayor-Frank-Rizzo/4321591190033/
[quote]"Thestatue is a deplorable monument to racism, bigotry,
and police brutality for members of the Black community," Kenney
said. "The treatment of these communities under Mr. Rizzo's
leadership was among the worst periods in Philadelphia's
history."[/quote]
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The list so far:
www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/06/all-the-monuments-to-r
acism-that-have-been-torched-occupied-or-removed/
And one more:
www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-ranger-statue-at-love-field-remo
ved-over-concerns-about-racist-history/2382528/
Don't stop now!
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www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/115251/leopold-i
i-statue-defaced-at-africa-museum/
[quote]A statue of Leopold II in the garden of the Africa Museum
in Tervuren was defaced, VRT reported Thursday evening.
Other statues of the former Belgian king had already been
vandalized in Halle, Ostend, Ghent and Ekeren.
Thestatue in Ekeren was set on fire on Wednesday night after
having been smeared in red paint last weekend. The bust in Ghent
was also covered inred paint and marked ‘I can’t breathe,’ the
final words of George Floyd, an unarmed black man whose death at
the hands of US police has sparked nationwide uprisings over
police brutality and systemic racism.
[/quote]
www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/115178/leopold-i
i-statue-set-on-fire-in-antwerp/
www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/114713/petition-launched-to-remov
e-statue-of-leopold-ii-in-brussels/
[quote]As anti-racism protests and demonstrations in honour of
George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer
put his knee on his neckfor minutes in the United States last
week, are taking place worldwide,a petition to the City of
Brussels has been launched in Belgium to remove all statues of
Leopold II.
Under his colonial regime, millions of Congolese people died.
Lack of reliable sources have made itdifficult to form an
accurate estimation, but modern estimates range from 1 million
to 15 million. In recent years, a consensus of around 10 million
deaths has been reached among historians.
“Despite all this, Leopold II is commemorated throughout Belgium
through statues, ceremonies in his honour, street names, and so
on. We do not want to erase the past, but we do want to erase
any homage to this man,” the initiators of the petition
added.[/quote]
The petition:
www.change.org/p/ville-de-bruxelles-enlever-toutes-les-statues-e
n-hommage-%C3%A0-l%C3%A9opold-ii
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And another goes down!
us.yahoo.com/news/protesters-topple-confederate-statue-virginia-
054712041.html
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Another:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/08/john-b-castleman-s
tatue-louisville-taken-down-cherokee-triangle/5318612002/
Also, Mayor Sadiq Khan defends the statue topplers:
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Moving beyond Confederates to colonialists proper:
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/protesters-rally-in-oxford
-for-removal-of-cecil-rhodes-statue
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Previously I suggested:
[quote]wecould consider (as an alternative to removing entire
statues) just decapitating each statue and displaying the
disembodied head hanging adjacent to the rest of the statue.
This would visually prove beyond anydoubt that we are not trying
to make people think that the colonialists(and, by inference,
the colonial era) never existed, but merely declaring what we
think of colonialists.[/quote]
Now:
www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/10/christopher-columbus-s
tatue-beheaded-boston-richmond/
Thank you BLM!
Also ongoing:
www.yahoo.com/news/tracker-monument-statue-removal-floyd-protest
s-confederate-racist-204705465.html
But best of all:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/11832425/second-winston-churchill-statue-v
andalised-graffiti-blm-protests/
[quote]The statue of Queen Victoria was left covered in graffiti
after Black Lives Matter protests in Leeds.
Demonstrators sprayed the sculpture with the words “racist”,
“murderer” and “slave owner”.
...
Nelson's Column is another target of anti-racism campaigners who
want it torn down over links to the slave trade.
Campaigners want the column removed as Nelson was fiercely
opposed to the abolition of the slave trade.
Hesupported prominent slavers and tried to prevent the
abolitionist William Wilberforce - who he dubbed 'damnable' -
from ending Britain's involvement in the slave trade.
Hundreds of statues could be pulled down after protesters drew
up a “hitlist”.
Full list of statues
Francis Drake - sea captain and slave trader
Drake was the first sailor to complete an entire journey of the
world in one trip frm 1577 to 1580.
He helped his cousin, John Hawkins, capture slaves from the
Americas and sell them to Spanish plantations.
William Gladstone
Gladstone is a former British PM whose family owned slaves in
the Caribbean.
He was actively opposed to the anti-slavery movement in Britain.
When slavery was banned, he helped his father obtain today's
equivalent of £10.3 million in return for freeing his slaves.
Horatio Nelson
Aflag officer in the Royal Navy known for inspirational
leadership and unconventional tactics during the Napoleonic
wars. He was a supporter ofthe slave trade and actively tried to
thrwart the abolitionist movementin Britain.
James George Smith Neill - monument - Ayr, Wellington Square
Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde – Statue - Glasgow, George Square
Sir Robert Peel - Statue - Glasgow, George Square
Henry Dundas – Statue - Edinburgh, St Andrew's Square
Grey's Monument - Newcastle Upon Tyne, Grainger Street
William Armstrong - Memorial - Newcastle Upon Tyne, Eldon Place
Statue of Sir Robert Peel in George Square, Glasgow
Robert Peel – Statue - Leeds, Woodhouse Moor
Robert Peel – Statue - Preston, Winkley Square
Robert Peel – Statue - Bury
Robert Peel – Statue - Manchester, Piccadilly Gardens
Oliver Cromwell – Statue - Manchester, Wythenshawe Road
Oliver Cromwell – Statue - Warrington, Bridge Street
Bryan Blundell - Blundell House - Liverpool, Liverpool Blue Coat
School
Christopher Columbus – Statue - Liverpool, Sefton Park Palm
House
William Leverhulme – Statue - Wirral, outside Lady Lever Art
Gallery
Henry Morton Stanley – Statue - Denbigh, Hall Square
William Gladstone – Statue - Hawarden, Gladstone's Library,
Church Lane
Elihu Yale – Wetherspoons Pub - Wrexham, Regent Street
Black man's head caricature - Ashbourne, Green Man
Robert Clive – Statue - Shrewsbury, The Square
Robert Peel – Statue - Tamworth, 27 Market Street
H Morton Stanley – Park - Redditch, Morton Stanley Park
Statue of Oliver Cromwell on Bridge Street, Warrington
Oliver Cromwell – Statue - St Ives, Market Hill
Ronald A. Fisher – Memorial - Cambridge, Gonville and Caius
College
Sir Thomas Picton – Memorial - Carmarthen, Picton Terrace
General Nott - Statue - Carmarthen, Nott Square
Thomas Phillips – Memorial plaque - Brecon, Captain's Walk
Cecil Rhodes – Statue - Oxford, Oriel College
Christopher Codrington – Rename Library - Oxford, Codrington
Library, All Souls College
Rename Rhodes Arts Complex and Rhodes Avenue - Bishop's
Stortford, Cecil Rhodes
Sir Thomas Picton – Statue - Cardiff, Cardiff City Hall
Edward Colston – Rename Colston Hall and Colston Street -
Bristol, Colston Street
Henry Overton Wills III – Wills Memorial Building - Bristol,
University of Bristol
Edward Colston – Statue - Bristol, Bristol Harbour
Edward Colston - Building - Bristol, Colston Tower, Colston
Street
Captain Edward August Lendy & Captain Charles Frederick Lendy–
Memorial Statue - Sunbury-on-Thames, Pantiles Court
Edward Colston – Rename Colston Road - Mortlake, Colston Road
William Beckford – School - London, Dornfell Street
Statue of Robert Clive in The Square, Shrewsbury
Robert Geffrye – Statue located on the Museum of the Home -
London, Kingsland Road
Francis Galton – Galton Lecture Theatre - London, Gower Street
Charles II of England – Statue - London, Soho Square Gardens
King James II – Statue - London, Trafalgar Square
Robert Clive – Statue - London, Westminster, King Charles Street
Oliver Cromwell – Statue - London, Houses of Parliament
Sir Robert Clayton – Statue - London, St Thomas' Hospital,
Westminster Bridge Road
SirHenry De la Beche – Name on front of Imperial College -
London, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, South
Kensington Campus
Christopher Columbus – Monument - London, Belgrave Square Garden
Thomas Guy – Statue - London, Guys Hospital
Thomas Guy - London, Guy's Hospital
Robert Milligan – Statue - London, Tower Hamlets, West India
Quay
Sir Francis Drake, Robert Blake, Horatio Nelson – Statues -
London, Deptford Town Hall, Goldsmiths College
Sir Francis Drake, Robert Blake and Horatio Nelson – Statues -
London, Goldsmiths Uni Deptford Town Hall
Statue of Sir Robert Clayton on Westminster Bridge Road, London
Lord Kitchener – Statue - Chatham, Khartoum Road
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington – Plaque - Brighton, Western Road
William Ewart Gladstone – Plaque - Brighton, Royal Albion Hotel
Christopher Barry Russell – Office - Cosham, Admiral House
Redvers Buller – Statue - Exeter, Hele Road
Francis Drake – Statue - Tavistock, Drakes Roundabout
Nancy Astor – Statue - Plymouth, Hoe Park
Francis Drake - Statue - Plymouth, Plymouth Hoe[/quote]
I like leftists who are methodical about activism.
Theabove list pertains to just the UK, though. We need similar
lists for every country affected by Western colonialism. Anyone
want to volunteer?
[quote]A group called Topple the Racists want statues across
Britain removed and street names changed.
Theirlist includes some of Britain’s most famous historical
figures including King James II, Oliver Cromwell and Christopher
Columbus.
Thegroup said: “We believe these statues and other memorials to
slave-owners and colonialists need to be removed so that Britain
can finally face the truth about its past – and how it shapes
our present.
...
“We must learn from, not venerate, this terrible chapter in
British colonial history.”[/quote]
Very well put. We support this group unreservedly:
www.toppletheracists.org/
Keep up the good work!
[quote]Meanwhile,it has been announced 130 Labour councils
across England and Wales willbegin reviewing monuments and
statues in their towns and cities.
It means dozens more monuments could be removed.
Astatement posted on Twitter said: "LGA Labour have consulted
with all Labour council leaders, and there is overwhelming
agreement from all Labour councils that they will listen to and
work with their local communities to review the appropriateness
of local monuments and statueson public land and council
property."[/quote]
I wish success to all involved. To colonialist statues
everywhere: WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
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Meanwhile, more successes back in the US:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8408251/Pelosi-demands-Republic
ans-agree-remove-11-Confederate-statues-Capitol-Hill.html
(pictures and information about the statues included)
Also some I missed earlier:
www.yahoo.com/news/jefferson-davis-statue-torn-down-034826808.ht
ml
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jun/10/protesters-topple-columb
us-statue-minnesota/
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFJvIjCkYDU
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2020, 2:09 am
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OLD CONTENT contd.
Recap of earlier years:
www.yahoo.com/news/pulling-down-statues-racists-africas-07010794
4.html
[quote]JOHANNESBURG(AP) — Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, King
Leopold. Statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have
been pulled down over the years in Africa after countries won
independence or newer generations said racistrelics had to go.
New campaigns in the U.S. and Europe are now following Africa’s
lead. Monuments to slave traders and colonial rulers have become
the focus of protests around the world, driven by a
reexamination of historical injustice after the death of George
Floyd atthe hands of police in the U.S.
No protests have been spotted this week around the remaining
statues in Africa, but several have facedfurious demonstrations
in the past.
A boisterous student-led campaign pressed the University of Cape
Town to remove a statue of CecilRhodes from the school's
entrance in April 2015. The statue had been defaced and covered
in excrement by students protesting against the colonial leader
who supported white minority rule in South Africa and the
colonization of the southern African territories named for him,
Northern and Southern Rhodesia, which later became independent
Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Students celebrated as a crane lifted the statue off its base.
Now the statue is covered by a tarpaulin at a local army base.
Anotherstatue of Rhodes was toppled in Zimbabwe in July 1980, a
few months after the country became independent. When the statue
was downed in the capital — then known by its colonial name,
Salisbury, now Harare — demonstrators cheered and pounded it
with a hammer.
A statue of Britain’s Queen Victoria in Nairobi, Kenya, was
knocked down and beheaded in 2015 by unknown vandals. The
headless statue lies next to its plinth in a downtown square.
“This statue reminds me of the suffering our forefathers went
through in the hands of colonialists and whenever we see them,
the memories are fresh,” Nairobi resident Samuel Obiero said.
“We need to get rid of them. All over the world they must be
brought down and all people who suffered due to colonialism need
to also be saved from all these kinds of memories.”
InCongo, a statue honoring colonial ruler King Leopold II of
Belgium — a copy of the statue that is now the focus of
demonstrations in Belgium — was pulled down decades ago. Erected
in 1928, it was ordered taken down by then-dictator Mobutu Sese
Seko seven years after independence in 1960.
The statue made a return in 2005 with an updated plaque,
intended by authorities to serve as a reminder of the horrors of
colonial rule. Public outcry was so great that it was taken down
a day later.
Now it stands in a park of colonial monuments set up on the
grounds of the Institute of National Museums set up by the U.N.
mission in Congo. Although the park is technically open to the
public, access is limited because of its proximity to the
president’s residence in the capital, Kinshasa. The park also
has statues of explorers Henry Morton Stanley and David
Livingstone.
There have been so many protests against the statue of Paul
Kruger, an early white ruler of South Africa, in the capital,
Pretoria, that fencing has been erected tokeep people away from
it. “Killer Killer” is prominently painted on itsbase.
“It just reminds me of, like, what’s written over there, ‘Killer
Killer,’” said Rogue Wanga, a 19-year-old street vendor. "Those
people were killers literally. And they never liked us. I feel
like we should replace it. Maybe a fountain or a Madiba (Nelson
Mandela) statue wouldn’t hurt.”
...
South African author William Gumede said pulling down statues is
just the first step in a process.
“It'simportant for these symbols of injustice to be pulled
down,” Gumede said. “This has been going on for decades, and we
are grappling with ridding ourselves of these monuments to
domination.”[/quote]
But is there less enthusiasm about pulling down colonialist
statues in former colonies in other parts of the world? If so,
why? And what can bedone to increase such enthusiasm?
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Next one:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8418521/New-Orleans-protesters-
pull-bust-throw-river.html
[quote]Black Lives Matter protesters rip down bust of slave
owner John McDonogh in New Orleans then throw it into the
Mississippi River[/quote]
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Continuing:
www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/pioneer-statues-toppled-amid-pro
tests-at-university-of-oregon.html
[quote]The statues have a history tied to the celebration of
white conquest, and some students had renewed calls for their
removal against a backdrop of international protests against
racism and police brutality.
...
ThePioneer was the first statue on the University of Oregon
campus, according to the university website. During the 1919
ceremony in which it was dedicated, the president of the Oregon
Historical Society gave a speech lauding the “Anglo-Saxon race,”
according to a Hidden History article on the university’s
library website.
The Pioneer Mother, erected in 1932, was the other statue
removed by protesters. Researcher Brenda Frink told The
Register-Guard in 2012 that similar pioneer motherstatues
celebrated “the expansion of American territory and the
expansion of white occupation of that land.”
...
Also on the list was a renaming of Deady Hall, named after
Matthew Deady, the racist judge who founded the University of
Oregon law school. Deady was a notedproponent of slavery and
said only “pure white” men should be allowed to vote, according
to a report commissioned by university President Michael Schill
in 2016.[/quote]
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[quote]activists in northern New Mexico celebrated the removal
of another likeness of Oñate that was on public display at a
cultural center in the community of Alcalde. Rio Arriba County
officials removed it to safeguard it from possible damage and to
avoid civil unrest ahead of a scheduled protest.
A forklift priedthe massive bronze statue of Oñate on horseback
from a concrete pedestal. Cheers erupted among bystanders who
saw the memorial as an affront to indigenous people and an
obstacle to greater racial harmony, though several people also
arrived to defend the tribute to Oñate.
...
The Oñate statues have been a source of criticism for decades.
Oñate,who arrived in present-day New Mexico in 1598, is
celebrated as a cultural father figure in communities along the
Upper Rio Grande that trace their ancestry to Spanish settlers.
But he’s also reviled for his brutality.
To Native Americans, Oñate is known for having orderedthe right
feet cut off of 24 captive tribal warriors that was precipitated
by the killing of Onate’s nephew. In 1998, someone sawed the
right foot off the statue — an incident that weighed in the
decisionto stash away the statue.[/quote]
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abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/statue-pioneer-linked-california-gol
d-rush-removed-71267009
[quote]Severaldozen people cheered as a work crew lifted the
statue of John Sutter — a19th century European colonizer of
California who enslaved Native Americans — off its pedestal
outside Sutter Medical Center in the latestreckoning of
historical figures being removed from public display.
...
AshwutRodriguez, a California Indian from Sacramento, spit on
the statue of Sutter after it was loaded onto a flatbed and tied
down.
“This isonly a Band Aid on a broken arm, but we can’t celebrate
or consider anything until you stop celebrating these evil
people,” said Rodriguez, 42, who came out with his family and
young children to watch.[/quote]
www.yahoo.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-removed-st-152227
289.html
[quote]Astatue of Christopher Columbus that stood in a St. Louis
park for more than 130 years has been removed amid a growing
national outcry against monuments to the 15th century explorer
(June 16)[/quote]
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-orders-removal-four-por
traits-confederate-house-speakers-capitol-n1231436
[quote]Pelosi requested the immediate removal of the portraits
of Robert Hunter of Virginia who served as House speaker from
1839 to 1841; Howell Cobbs of Georgia (1849 to 1851); James Orr
of South Carolina (1857 to 1859); and Charles Crisp of Georgia
(1891 to 1895).
"We cannot honor men such as James Orr, who swore on the House
Floor to 'preserve and perpetuate' slavery in order to 'enjoy
our property in peace, quiet and security,' or Robert Hunter,
who served at nearly every level of the Confederacy, including
in the Confederate Provincial Congress, as Confederate Secretary
of State, in the Confederate Senate and in the Confederate
Army,” Pelosi wrote in the letter. "The portraits of these men
are symbols that set back our nation's work to confront and
combat bigotry."
...
The speaker said during her weekly press conference Thursday
that she and her team were unaware that the portraits existed
inside the Capitol until "we were taking inventory of the
statues and the curator told us" about the four paintings of the
Confederate speakers.[/quote]
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www.yahoo.com/news/north-carolina-protesters-tear-down-025419841
.html
[quote]Protesters in North Carolina's capital pulled down parts
of a Confederate monumentFriday on night and hanged one of the
toppled statues from a light post.[/quote]
Today, Western statues. Tomorrow, Western civilization.
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/20/protesters-statue-washin
gton-dc-albert-pike-juneteenth-us
[quote]Cheering demonstrators jumped up and down as the 11-foot
(3.4-meter) statue of Albert Pike – wrapped with chains –
wobbled on its high granite pedestalbefore falling backward,
landing in a pile of dust. Protesters then seta bonfire and
stood around it in a circle as the statue burned, chanting, “No
justice, no peace, no racist police”.
...
The Pike statue has been a source of controversy over the years.
The former Confederate general was also a longtime influential
leader of the Freemasons, who revere Pike and who paid for the
statue. Pike’s body is interred at the DC headquarters of the
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which also contains a small museum
in his honor.[/quote]
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Our enemies report:
voiceofeurope.com/2020/06/foreigners-start-petitions-to-remove-r
acist-scandinavian-statues/
[quote]Theiconoclasm in US and UK has now spread to Scandinavia,
where petitions in Sweden and Norway have called for statues of
“racist” historical persons to be taken down.
...
Jallow, a foreigner, disapproves of Sweden’s commemoration of
Von Linne because he was the first scientist who divided mankind
into races. There are statues of him in various cities
throughout Sweden. Recently, far-left activists have launched a
petition to have one of Von Linne’s statues removed. At present,
the petition has 1,566 signatures.
Meanwhile, in Norway, a Moroccan woman living named Yasmin
Zannachi has started the petition to take downtwo statues in
Oslo – one of Winston Churchill, and the other of the Norwegian
writer Ludvig Holberg, Document Norway reports.
...
Zannachi’s petition, which now has over 4,000 signatures, is
supported by the youth organization of the Norwegian Greens.
TeodorBruu, spokesperson for the Norwegian Green Youth says: “We
think it is totally obvious that we should not have statues of
racists and slave traders in our towns.”[/quote]
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Enemy tweet: coming for, like, ulysses s grant's ass? not sure
about that one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_policy_of_the_Ulysses_S._G
rant_administration#Buffalo_destruction
[quote]Centralto the Grant administration Peace policy was
allowing the destruction of the buffalo, the Native food supply,
to keep Native peoples dependenton government supplies. In 1872,
around two thousand white buffalo hunters working between
Kansas, and Arkansas were killing buffalo for their hides by the
many thousands. The demand was for boots for Europeanarmies, or
machine belts attached to steam engines. Acres of land were
dedicated solely for drying the hides of the slaughtered
buffalo.[/quote]
And the double-standard to top it off:
[quote]Ranchers wanted the buffalo gone to open pasture land for
their cattle herds.[/quote]
It is true that Grant was opposed to discrimination against
"blacks":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#Reconstruction_and_civil_
rights
[quote]Grantwas considered an effective civil rights president,
concerned about theplight of African Americans.[312] On March
18, 1869, Grant signed into law equal rights for blacks, to
serve on juries and hold office, in Washington D.C., and in 1870
he signed into law the Naturalization Act that gave foreign
blacks citizenship.[312] During his first term, Reconstruction
took precedence. Republicans controlled most Southern states,
propped up by Republican controlled Congress, northern money,
and southern military occupation.[313] Grant advocated the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment that said states could
not disenfranchise African Americans.[315][/quote]
but this is only further evidence that (contrary to rightist
accusations ofBLM ethnotribalism) BLM cares not just about
oppression of "blacks"
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Here is a start for the US. This only has Confederate monuments,
but this dataset can be downloaded expanded upon to include
Columbus statues, pioneer settler monuments, etc.
www.splcenter.org/20190201/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confede
racy#findings
This page has the data in a simplified format:
[quote]Across the United States, there are an estimated 1,741
public symbols of the Confederacy, according to the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
These symbols include schools, parks, bridges, roads, statues
and more.
...
In2017, during a protest against the removal of a statue of
Confederate general Robert E Lee, a self-described neo-Nazi
killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer after he rammed his car into a
crowd of counter-protestersin Charlottesville, Virginia.
Since then, at least 44 monuments have been removed across the
country.
The map below shows where the 771 statues and monuments are in
the US:[/quote]
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2020/06/mapping-hundreds-c
onfederate-statues-200610103154036.html
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We have arrived in France:
www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/22/protesters-deface-french-col
onial-era-statues-in-red-paint/
[quote]PARIS(AP) — Two Paris statues related to France’s
colonial era were daubed with red paint Monday amid a global
movement to take down monuments to figures tied to slavery or
colonialism.
One statue was of Hubert Lyautey, near the gold-domed Invalides
monument that houses Napoleon’s tomb. Lyautey served in Morocco,
Algeria, Madagascar and Indochina when they were under French
control, and later was France’s minister of war during World War
I.
The other figure drenched in red shows Voltaire, a leading
thinker and writer of the French Enlightenment, who owed part of
his fortune to colonial-era trade.[/quote]
No topplings yet, though.....
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Well spotted!
www.yahoo.com/news/petition-to-change-badge-st-michael-st-george
-queen-honour-104906375.html
[quote]A petition is calling for one of the Queen’s highest
honours to be redesigned as campaigners say it resembles a white
man killing a black man.
...
On the petition, Tracy Reeve wrote: “The image on the Honorary
Knights/Dames Commander (KCMG/DCMG) star is a white skinned
angel stood on the head/neck of a black skinned devil.
“This is ahighly offensive image, it is also reminiscent of the
recent murder of George Floyd by the white policeman in the same
manner presented here inthis medal.
“We the undersigned are calling for this medal to completely
redesigned in a more appropriate way and for an official apology
to be given for the offence it has given!”
...
Sir Simon Woolley, the director and one of the founders of
Operation Black Vote, told The Guardian: “The original image may
have been of St Michael slaying Satan, but the figure has no
horns or tail and is clearly a black man. It is a shocking
depiction, and it is even more shocking thatthat image could be
presented to ambassadors representing this country abroad.
“For most black and brown people, there is nothing good about
the empire. Most people will see this as an image of George
Floyd on a global scale and a symbol of white
supremacy.”[/quote]
Judge for yourself:
[img]
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www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/23/andrew-cuomo-defends-de
struction-us-monuments-its-/
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the attacks on monuments
“healthy expression” and “good statements.”
[quote]In an appearance Tuesday on NBC, he denied President
Trump’s admonition that, in the words of interviewer Savannah
Guthrie, “cities should do more to protect monuments.”
...
“People are making a statement about equality, about community,
to be against racism, against slavery, Ithink those are good
statements,” the Democratic governor said.
...
“It’sa healthy expression of people saying let’s get some
priorities here and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this
nation made and let’s not celebrate it,” he said.[/quote]
[img]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2020, 2:22 am
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Not all statues involve people:
HTML https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/man-arrested-for-taking-down-kalispell-monument-with-chain-pickup-truck
[quote]MISSOULA, Mont. — A Columbia Falls man is behind bars
after police say he took down the Ten Commandments monument in
Kalispell with a chain and a pickup truck.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 1:47 am
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HTML https://nypost.com/2020/07/01/christopher-columbus-statue-removed-outside-columbus-city-hall/
HTML https://apnews.com/b27b2bfce3ecefe13c917a69a59cd9da
[quote]Stonewall Jackson removed from Richmond’s Monument
Avenue[/quote]
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/belgium-king-leopold-statue-removed-115117221.html
[quote]A statue of former Belgian king Leopold II has been
removed in the city of Ghent as Belgium marked the 60th
anniversary of the end of its colonial rule in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.[/quote]
We still have a very long way to go, however:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/worshipping-whiteness-why-racist-symbols-080048241.html
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: guest5 Date: July 2, 2020, 10:15 am
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Was Mahatma Gandhi racist? | The Stream
[quote]The University of Ghana has removed a statue of the
Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, citing complaints
from faculty and students that he was racist toward black
Africans. The statue was donated to the university in 2016 by
the Indian government, prompting critics to create the hashtag
#GandhiMustFall to draw attention to derogatory statements the
young Gandhi had written while living in South Africa.
Gandhi is considered an icon of social justice and defenders of
his legacy contend that his writings, while ignorant, should be
considered within the greater context of his life and struggle
against oppression. Organisers of the hashtag campaign argue
that Gandhi’s legacy doesn’t justify racism or his view that
Africans were “inferior”.
In this episode, we speak with Gandhi historians and
#GandhiMustFall campaigners to explore the impact of Mahatma
Gandhi’s reported racism on his legacy as a champion of civil
rights. Join the conversation.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWFQtAejmfM
Mahatma Gandhi's Statue Vandalised In London Amid Black Lives
Matter Protest
[quote]Days after the desecration of a Mahatma Gandhi statue US
capital Washington DC during George Floyd protests, protestors
in Parliament Square, London, targeted a Gandhi statue on the
other side of the Atlantic, spraying 'racist' on its foundation
and splattering it with white paint. During the George Floyd
protests in Parliament Square, which has emerged as one of the
major hubs of protests in London, some miscreants took to
defiling the statues located along the main square.
The main square holds statues of some historically respected
figures of political movement including Abraham Lincoln and
Winston Churchill. Most of the statues along the main square
were defiled with words such as 'racist' spray-painted on them,
while some saw placards of the Black Lives Matter movement being
hung around their necks.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxhb-JOHV8Q
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2020, 11:59 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1278795602583789573
[quote]Following yesterday's order by Richmond Mayor Levar
Stoney to remove all Confederate Statues immediately, a second
figure was removed.
The statue of Matthew Maury, a Confederate Naval officer, was
removed this morning.[/quote]
HTML https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-confederate-statues-controversy-native-american-lawmakers-ask-what-about-jackson-2020-07-02
[quote]“There’s no question Andrew Jackson was the worst
president ever for Native Americans — cruel, horrible,” said
Rep. Deb Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat. Haaland is one of only
four Native Americans and one of two Native women in Congress.
Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico, said
Jackson’s statue doesn’t deserve its place in the
Rotunda.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OVEEuXA0c
Also the following is a worthwhile perspective:
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html
[quote]You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate
Monument
The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white
people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?
...
I am a black, Southern woman, and of my immediate white male
ancestors, all of them were rapists. My very existence is a
relic of slavery and Jim Crow.
According to the rule of hypodescent (the social and legal
practice of assigning a genetically mixed-race person to the
race with less social power) I am the daughter of two black
people, the granddaughter of four black people, the
great-granddaughter of eight black people. Go back one more
generation and it gets less straightforward, and more sinister.
As far as family history has always told, and as modern DNA
testing has allowed me to confirm, I am the descendant of black
women who were domestic servants and white men who raped their
help.
It is an extraordinary truth of my life that I am biologically
more than half white, and yet I have no white people in my
genealogy in living memory. No. Voluntary. Whiteness. I am more
than half white, and none of it was consensual. White Southern
men — my ancestors — took what they wanted from women they did
not love, over whom they had extraordinary power, and then
failed to claim their children.
What is a monument but a standing memory? An artifact to make
tangible the truth of the past. My body and blood are a tangible
truth of the South and its past. The black people I come from
were owned by the white people I come from. The white people I
come from fought and died for their Lost Cause. And I ask you
now, who dares to tell me to celebrate them? Who dares to ask me
to accept their mounted pedestals?
...
Either you have been blind to a truth that my body’s story
forces you to see, or you really do mean to honor the oppressors
at the expense of the oppressed, and you must at last
acknowledge your emotional investment in a legacy of hate.
Either way, I say the monuments of stone and metal, the
monuments of cloth and wood, all the man-made monuments, must
come down. I defy any sentimental Southerner to defend our
ancestors to me. I am quite literally made of the reasons to
strip them of their laurels.[/quote]
I of course recommend the author to voluntarily refrain from
reproducing so as to terminate the bloodline she carries ASAP.
Though more importantly the state needs to step in and prohibit
actual racists from reproducing.
We need to start promoting what I am hereby coining genetic
cancel culture. The physical cancel culture currently being
practiced, consisting of eliminating colonialist symbols, is
well-intentioned but ultimately superficial, and dangerous if we
presume it is sufficient. Eliminating the bloodlines celebrated
by those symbols is the only true solution.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 4, 2020, 11:40 pm
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HTML https://uk.news.yahoo.com/protesters-pull-down-columbus-statue-024421492.html
[quote]Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher
Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday
night.[/quote]
HTML https://twitter.com/louiskraussnews/status/1279579607637917699
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