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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 5, 2020, 2:00 pm
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HTML https://komonews.com/news/local/confederate-monument-toppled-at-seattles-lake-view-cemetery
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 7, 2020, 11:45 pm
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HTML https://apnews.com/08b88d1a21f11ba26cf15740d0b563bf
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> Richmond removes statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart
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HTML https://www.change.org/p/rutgers-camden-office-of-the-chancellor-remove-racist-walt-whitman-statue-from-rutgers-camden-campus
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> "The nigger, like the Injun, will be eliminated: it is the law
of races, history, what-not: always so far inexorable- always to
be. Someone proves that a superior grade of rats comes and then
all the minor rats are cleared out." - Walt Whitman
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Topple the racists!
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: guest5
Date: July 9, 2020, 7:26 pm
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Melania Trump statue removed after being set on fire
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> A statue of Melania Trump has been removed from near her
hometown in Slovenia after being badly burned by vandals.
> The statue, near Sevnica, central Slovenia, was set alight on
July 5, Slovenian Police confirmed to CNN.
> Brad Downey, the artist who commissioned the piece, told CNN
that he received a call from the local police department asking
him what to do with the statue, which was made in July 2019 as
part of an ongoing project that includes a short documentary
film.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_lQhklNmH0
Well, that didn't last long.... [emoji1]
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 11, 2020, 12:48 am
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NFAC joins in the call to remove the Stone Mountain carving:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/gma/georgia-activists-seek-remove-stone-mountain-granddaddy-confederate-154456160.html
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> The Official Grand Master Jay, the NFAC founder, told ABC News
he believes the Stone Mountain carving is a reminder of white
supremacy, a history that cannot be cast simply as southern
Confederate heritage.
>
> “The United States has allowed it to exist but it's become a
pain point. It's gotten to the point where it's more so fuel to
the fire than it does to remind folks of their heritage. And of
course, there are both sides to that, but I do believe that this
particular monument is the pink elephant in the room,” he said.
>
> Other organizations such as Black Lives Matter and the NAACP
have also called for the removal of the monument.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 13, 2020, 12:22 am
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We have reached Puerto Rico:
HTML https://time.com/5865928/puerto-rico-confronts-spain-legacy/
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> (SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — Statues, street names, plazas and
even the body of conquistador Juan Ponce de León himself: Spain
left a nearly indelible legacy in Puerto Rico that attracts
hordes of tourists every year, but some activists are trying to
erase it as they join a U.S. movement to eradicate symbols of
oppression.
>
> Dozens of activists marched through the historic part of
Puerto Rico’s capital on Saturday, some wearing traditional
Taino clothing as they banged on drums and blew on conch shells
to demand that the U.S. territory’s government start by removing
statues including those of explorer Christopher Columbus.
>
> “These statues represent all that history of violence, of
invasion, of looting, of theft, of murder,” said an activist who
goes by the name of Pluma and is a member of Puerto Rico’s
Council for the Defense of Indigenous Rights. “These are crimes
against humanity.”
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> Columbus landed in Puerto Rico in 1493 accompanied by Spaniard
Ponce de León, who later became the island’s first governor and
quelled an uprising by the native Tainos, a subgroup of the
Arawak Indians. Historians and anthropologists believe that up
to 60,000 Tainos lived in Puerto Rico at the time, but they were
soon forced into labor and succumbed to infectious disease
outbreaks.
>
> Centuries later, local government officials honored both
explorers by erecting statues and naming streets and plazas
after them across Puerto Rico. The Columbus Plaza is located at
the entrance of Old San Juan and bears a statue of Columbus
unveiled in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his
arrival. Meanwhile, a nearby statue of Ponce de León stands
facing south with his left hand on his hip and right finger
pointed toward the first settlement he founded. The ruins still
mark the spot of the island’s first Spanish capital and is a
U.S. National Historic Landmark. The statue made of melted steel
from British cannons also points in the same direction of the
nearby San Juan Bautista Cathedral that bears Ponce de León’s
remains and is a popular tourist spot.
>
> Activists on Saturday demanded that both statues be removed as
the first step in taking down symbols of oppression across
Puerto Rico.
>
> “No, it won’t be easy,” acknowledged activist Francisco Jordán
García, who helped organize the march. “It’s going to be a long
process.”
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> But he quickly offered alternatives: “We can melt them and
create a different statue of someone who truly deserves it.”
>
> Activists recently contacted the office of San Juan Mayor
Carmen Yulín Cruz and said an assistant told them officials
would evaluate the cost of taking down the statues. A Cruz
spokesman did not return a message for comment.
>
> The march comes as Puerto Ricans’ interest in the territory’s
indigenous past continues to grow. In the 2010 Census, some
42,000 of the 3.7 million people living on the island at that
time identified themselves as at least partially Taino.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 14, 2020, 2:49 pm
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HTML https://www.wwaytv3.com/2020/07/14/confederate-monument-removed-from-buncombe-county-courthouse/
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 15, 2020, 1:08 am
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HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/university-mississippi-removes-confederate-statue-heart-campus-n1233782
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 17, 2020, 11:59 pm
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Another statue beheaded:
HTML https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/cecil-john-rhodes-statue-no-arrests-as-police-probe-who-chopped-off-busts-head-in-cape-town-20200715
One day we will behead Western civilization itself.
In other news, our enemies are now actively protecting some
statues:
HTML https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/08/protection-racket-columbus-has-friends-at-1-police-plaza/
HTML https://twitter.com/Wildman_AZ/status/1284290149606518784
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 18, 2020, 11:31 pm
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We have arrived in Greenland:
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53429950
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> The Hans Egede statue is in Nuuk, the tiny capital of the vast
Arctic island where just 56,000 people live.
>
> Last month red paint was daubed on the statue, with the word
"decolonize" - apparently linked to the global anti-colonial
protests.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 19, 2020, 11:17 pm
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Some constructive input:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/replace-alexander-hamilton-stephens-statue-100623188.html
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> Replace the Alexander Hamilton Stephens Statue With One of
John Lewis
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