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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 8, 2022, 8:23 pm
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The next targets have been spotted:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-capitol-filled-racist-depictions-155839234.html
[quote]The U.S. Capitol Is Filled With Racist Depictions of
Native Americans. It's Time for Them to Go
...
visitors to the Capitol will still encounter several 19th
century paintings and sculptures that advocate cruelty and
barbarism—against Native Americans.
One of these sculptures, carved in 1826-1827 by the Italian
artist Enrico Causici, is a gruesome scene showing the explorer
Daniel Boone stabbing a Native American warrior. Another warrior
lies dead beneath their feet, filling the entire bottom of the
rectangular panel. Soon after the work was installed, then-Rep.
Tristam Burges, sarcastically commented that it “very truly
represented our dealing with the Indians, for we had not left
them even a place to die upon.”
The Boone panel is one of the first four sculptures made for the
Capitol after it was rebuilt following its burning by the
British in the War of 1812. The other sculptures show a Native
American man offering corn to Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock,
Pocahontas saving John Smith, and William Penn shaking hands
with a Native American to close a deal to exchange land for
gifts. In 1842, then-Rep. Henry Wise claimed that Native
Americans visiting the Capitol had observed how well these
sculptures showed the history of relations between them and
settlers: “We give you corn, you cheat us of our lands; we save
your life, you take ours.”
These sculptures went up during the debates leading up to
President Andrew Jackson’s 1830 “Indian Removal Act,” which
expelled Native Americans from their lands east of the
Mississippi River. The Congressmen who authorized forced marches
in which thousands died, including the infamous “Trail of
Tears,” thought their actions were justified because they
believed either that Native Americans were so savage that they
could never peacefully coexist with white Americans or that the
inferior “Indian race” would quickly die out when faced with
superior European settlers.
It’s no wonder the Congressmen believed these stereotypes, since
they saw them in the sculptures decorating the Capitol. The
Boone panel shows both at once: its warrior is wild-eyed, with a
face twisted in a demonic grimace of hatred. But Boone’s face
remains calm. Despite his opponent’s impressive muscles and the
tomahawk raised over his head, Boone is confident that his
superior nature will win the fight.
While serving in the House in 2019, now-Secretary of the
Interior Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo
tribe, called for a review of the Capitol’s artwork to document
its “racist stereotypes about Native Americans.” The Architect
of the Capitol, the agency responsible for the Capitol’s art,
put up a website listing some of the images of Native Americans
in the building, but there have so far been no indications that
any of these artworks will be removed. The project would indeed
be complex, since Native American figures appear so often in the
Capitol’s mid-19th century decorations, ranging from sculpted
panels on the Rotunda’s doors, its paintings, including John
Chapman’s 1840 “Baptism of Pocahontas,” the massive sculptures
over the entrance to the Senate building, and even the clock
keeping time in the House. In her book Art and Empire, scholar
Vivien Green Fryd points out that these Native Americans,
“relegated to shadows and borders,” are nearly always shown in
powerless positions. They crouch, kneel, collapse, or sit in
despairing contemplation of their children, symbolizing the
imminent extinction of their kind.
Attorney Brett Chapman, a member of the Pawnee tribe and
descendent of Chief Standing Bear, pointed me to a section of
the painted frieze circling the Rotunda. The frieze shows the
1813 death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, who formed intertribal
coalitions to fight the settlers. Tecumseh is shown crumpled to
the ground below his killer, Richard Mentor Johnson (who would
later serve as vice president under Martin Van Buren), who rides
a triumphantly rearing horse. Chapman asked me to imagine if the
frieze instead showed “Martin Luther King with a gunshot wound
to his head, with the murderer standing right over him.” For
Chapman, celebrating the death of King or Tecumseh is “the same
thing”: a glorification of the oppression of Americans of color.
...
That’s what Horatio Greenough showed in his massive 1850
sculpture “Rescue,” installed outside the Capitol Building’s
eastern entrance. Greenough used plaster casts of skulls lent to
him by the artist John Chapman, who had obtained them for his
Rotunda painting of the baptism of Pocahontas. Greenough’s
sculpture, which shows a settler triumphing over a dying Native
American warrior, was praised by critics for, as one of them put
it in 1851, showing “the ferocious and destructive instinct of
the savage, and his easy subjugation under the superior manhood
of the new colonist.” Another complimented the way the settler’s
“rebuking force is a shade saddened and softened by the
melancholy thought of the necessary extinction of the poor
savage, whose nature is irreconcilable with society.”
But you won’t see “Rescue” on a Capitol tour today. In 1939, a
joint resolution of Congress called for the sculpture to be
“ground into dust” and “scattered to the four winds” so that it
would not be a “constant reminder to our American Indian
citizens” about the cruel process of Western expansion. In 1941,
a similar joint resolution called “Rescue” “an atrocious
distortion of the facts of American history and a gratuitous
insult” to Native Americans. While neither these resolutions nor
protests by Indigenous groups had any official result, “Rescue”
was put in storage in 1958, supposedly to protect it during
construction work on the building. But it was never returned to
the Capitol – and in 1976, a crane dropped “Rescue” as it was
moving it to a new storage area. Its fragments linger in a
government warehouse.
“Rescue” may have been one of the most bloodthirsty, and was
certainly the largest single example, of a 19th century Capitol
artwork based on the idea that Native Americans were
fundamentally inferior to white Americans.
...
when I asked Mike Forcia, chairman of the American Indian
Movement’s chapter in the Twin Cities, Minn., if he thought
adding new images to the Capitol to honor Native Americans was
enough to make up for the derogatory ones, he said no. “They
should be taken down from their place of honor,” he said. “It’s
time to come clean.”[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 15, 2022, 7:50 pm
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More success:
HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/8619183/gassy-jack-statue-gastown-toppled-dtes-womens-memorial-march/
[quote]The statue of John Deighton, more commonly known as Gassy
Jack, was toppled Monday afternoon during the annual Downtown
Eastside Women’s Memorial March.
Video shared online shows ropes being placed around the statue
and then it falling while people crowded around to cheer.
The statue stands at the edge of Gastown, the neighbourhood in
Vancouver named after him.
...
The City of Vancouver has been in consultations with (the)
Squamish Nation on the right way to remove the Gassy Jack statue
and recognize the truth of John Deighton’s harmful
legacy.”[/quote]
[img width=1280
height=720]
HTML https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MicrosoftTeams-image-31.jpg[/img]
HTML https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2022/01/26/417683/statue-of-rice-founder-to-be-relocated-in-response-to-criticism-regarding-universitys-lack-of-diversity/
[quote]A statue memorializing Rice University’s founder will
soon be relocated after years of complaints from students who
said the school needed to examine its own history of racism.
...
William Marsh Rice chartered the university in 1891 exclusively
for white students — a policy that remained in place until 1965.
The school also briefly allowed for the creation of a Ku Klux
Klan student chapter and permitted blackface social
gatherings.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 16, 2022, 8:29 pm
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Well done!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexicos-indigenous-purepecha-tear-down-004149575.html
[quote]Mexico's indigenous Purepecha tear down statues of
Spaniards
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used
axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their
ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era
Spanish priest.
...
The life-size statues depict Spanish priest Fray Antonio de San
Miguel ordering one nearly naked Purepecha to cut a stone block,
while another is depicted hauling a stone away on his back.
A fourth figure in the group, known as the “Statue of the
Builders,” represents an anonymous Spanish town planner standing
nearby holding papers.
The Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacan said the statues
glorified the brutal exploitation of their ancestors, who
continued to resist the Spanish after the rival Aztec empire to
the east fell to the conquistadores in 1521.
“2022 marks 500 years since the conquest and invasion of
Michoacan that occurred in June 1522,” the council said in a
statement. “During the invasion of what is today Michoacan, the
Spanish enslaved thousands of Indigenous people.”
“Five hundred years after the invasion of Michoacan, the
indigenous people continue to resist and fight as our
grandfathers did.”
The council distributed photos of some of the statues knocked to
the ground, with activists smashing them to bits.[/quote]
One day we will smash Spain itself and turn it back into
Andalus!
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 4, 2022, 12:09 am
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HTML https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/3/3/22959813/columbus-statue-arrigo-lawsuit-parade-park-district-onesti-smyrniotis-lightfoot-italian-americans
[quote]A civic leader is demanding that Mayor Lori Lightfoot
apologize for the obscene and derogatory remarks a lawsuit
alleges she made about Italian Americans during a phone call to
discuss the statue of Christopher Columbus removed from Arrigo
Park.
That statue was taken away on Lightfoot’s orders in 2020 after
it became the target of protests and vandalism. The statue is
the property of the Chicago Park District, which was sued by the
Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans seeking the statue’s
return.
The comment that incensed Ron Onesti, president of the civic
committee, was allegedly made during a video call the mayor had
the evening of Columbus Day with several people, including two
park district attorneys, after she killed a deal the district
had made with Onesti’s group to allow the statue to be displayed
at the Columbus Day parade, according to the lawsuit.
“You d--ks, what the f--k were you thinking?” Lightfoot is
quoted as saying in the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Lightfoot went on to accuse King and
Smyrniotis of making “some kind of secret agreement with
Italians, what you are doing, you are out there measuring your
d--ks with the Italians seeing whose got the biggest d--k ... I
am trying to keep Chicago Police officers from being shot and
you are trying to get them shot. My d--k is bigger than yours
and the Italians, I have the biggest d--k in Chicago.”
...
On the call, Lightfoot told Smyrniotis: “Get that f--king statue
back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you
fired.”[/quote]
Thank you for standing up to the colonialists, Mayor Lightfoot!
[quote]“It’s offensive. We’re Chicagoans first. That’s our
mayor. And our mayor is talking about her constituency that way.
About an ethnic group that way. A very large ethnic group,”
Onesti said.
“There isn’t an ethnic group that deserves that kind of vulgar
referencing. ... I’m astounded . . . It’s embarrassing and it’s
insensitive.”[/quote]
True leaders are unconcerned with popularity. It doesn't matter
how large your ethnic group is. If you support Columbus, you
instantly share in all the violence that Columbus initiated and
hence deserve all the retaliatory violence that Columbus himself
deserved (but unfortunately did not receive).
[quote]“Her position is that the city of Chicago owns it,”
Onesti said Thursday.
“The last time I checked, the city of Chicago is our people.
We’re the people. We own it. We, as an organization, have a
legal claim to it,” he added.[/quote]
If you support Columbus, you are not even American, let alone
Chicagoan. You are nothing but Western colonialists. This is
what you look like to us (as Lightfoot accurately described):
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Cod-Piece_by_Wendelin_Boeheim.jpg
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 11, 2022, 2:55 am
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Our enemies keep complaining about our activism:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/great-replacement-comes-for-gen-custer-democrats-in-michigan-push-to-remove-custer-monument
[quote]LANSING — Michigan Democrats this weekend could call for
the removal of a monument to Gen. George Custer in Monroe
...
The Democratic resolution states Custer was “notoriously known
as the ‘Indian Killer,'” and the statue is a “painful public
reminder of the genocide of Indigenous peoples.”[/quote]
About Custer:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer#Attacks_on_Indigenous_Peoples
[quote]Deloria condemned Custer's violations of the 1868 Fort
Laramie Treaty that established the Black Hills region as
unceded territory of the Sioux and Arapaho peoples.[130]
Custer's violations of the Fort Laramie Treaty included a 1874
gold expedition and the 1876 Battle of Greasy Grass (Battle of
the Little Bighorn).[131]
Critics have also highlighted Custer's 1868 Washita River
surprise attack that killed Cheyenne non-combatants including
mothers, children, and elders. Custer was following Generals
William Sherman and Philip Sheridan's orders for “total war” on
the Indigenous nations. Describing total war methods, Sherman
wrote, “We must act with vindictive earnestness against the
Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women, and
children...during an assault, the soldiers can not pause to
distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to
age."[132] There is “credible evidence” that following the
attack, Custer and his men took “sexual liberties” with female
captives, in the euphemism of one historian.[133] Another
historian writes, “There was a saying among the soldiers of the
western frontier, a saying Custer and his officers could
heartily endorse: ‘Indian women rape easy.’”[134][/quote]
Our enemies say:
[quote]Custer’s Last Stand is our history. His statue in Monroe,
Michigan celebrates our history.[/quote]
Since they self-identify with Custer, we should treat them the
same way we treated Custer.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 11, 2022, 10:07 pm
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Awesome!
HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/04/11/israel-josephs-tomb-one-of-the-holiest-places-in-judaism-has-been-set-fire-to-and-vandalized-by-muslims-twice-in-the-past-two-days/
[quote]About 100 Palestinians marched to Joseph’s tomb in the
city of Nablus late Saturday and set it on fire before being
dispersed, Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gene. Ran Kochav
told Israeli army radio. Photos showed parts of the grave
smashed and charred, as well as damage to a chandelier hanging
above it, a water tank and an electrical box, the Jerusalem Post
reported. And for the second day in a row, Palestinians
reportedly broke into Joseph’s Tomb again and vandalized the
shrine.[/quote]
Hitler explains who Joseph was:
[quote]"Before the first clash with the Egyptians, the head
scoundrel, the modest Joseph, had pretty
well prepared: the seven lean cows, all the granaries filled,
the people raging with hunger, the
reigning Pharaoh a perfect flunky of the Jews, and Joseph, with
a corner on the grain supply,
'ruler over all the land'! (Genesis 41:43). All the lamentations
of the Egyptians were in vain;
the Jew held the warehouse closed with an iron fist until they,
in return for a bit of bread, were
obliged to give away first their money, then their cattle and
their land, and finally their
freedom. And suddenly the capital was swarming with Jews; old
Jacob was there, and 'his
sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons'
daughters, and all his seed' --
the entire hodgepodge (Genesis 46:7). And Joseph 'wept a good
while' for joy. Afterward, he
said to his brothers: 'ye shall eat the fat of the land,' and
'the good of all the land of Egypt is
yours.' (Genesis 45:18,20)[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 28, 2022, 8:27 pm
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While there have been many statues toppled since we started this
topic, the following story reminds us that toppling statues is
by itself not enough. So long as our enemies' bloodlines are not
eliminated, they can keep putting the statues back up.
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/nature-is-healing-whites-in-70-black-baltimore-rebuild-christopher-columbus-destroyed-in-george-floyd-riots-of-2020
[quote]BALTIMORE — After a group of protesters threw Little
Italy’s longtime Columbus statue into the Harbor two years ago,
the statue has been recreated by a local sculptor.
...
sculptor Will Hemsley also dedicated himself to rebuilding the
solemn, marble Christopher Columbus statue, costing him about
$80,000. The new sculpture is almost identical to the original
one.[/quote]
The only genuinely meaningful solution is to eliminate all enemy
bloodlines. Why not begin with the Hemsley bloodline?
[quote]Pica said Tuesday that the recreation of the sculpture is
not necessarily about Columbus, but about what he represents as
an incredible explorer who opened up the path between western
Europe and the Americas.[/quote]
In other words, it is about Columbus. **** your gaslighting,
Western colonialist.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: rp Date: April 28, 2022, 8:38 pm
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"It's not about Columbus, it's about Columbus"
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: SirGalahad Date: April 29, 2022, 12:48 pm
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"It's not about Columbus, it's just about the entire eternal
archetype that he represents"
Yeah that really makes us feel better about that ;D
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 28, 2022, 8:06 pm
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HTML https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/05/23/in-replacing-monuments-communities-reconsider-how-the-west-was-won
[quote]PORTLAND, Ore. — In June 2020, protesters at the
University of Oregon in Eugene toppled a statue called The
Pioneer, which depicted a White man with a gun slung over his
shoulder and a whip in his hand, and a second sculpture titled
The Pioneer Mother.
Both monuments had drawn criticism from Indigenous student
groups and historians for commemorating settler violence in the
West.
Even as Southern states face a reckoning over Confederate
monuments, communities in the Western United States are
beginning to reconsider monuments that, in many locations,
celebrate what dominant American culture has portrayed as the
conquering of the region by Europeans.
Among them are hundreds of pioneer monuments, many of which
celebrate White dominance over Indigenous people as the nation
expanded west. Some were toppled or damaged during the racial
justice protests following the murder of George Floyd.
In Portland, protesters pulled down or damaged five statues in
the summer and fall of 2020, including The Promised Land, a
celebration of White westward expansion erected on the 150th
anniversary of the Oregon Trail. Portland protesters also
toppled monuments to Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln,
citing their policies and actions against Native Americans. And
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, city officials removed a statue of
the Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate after a shooting during a
protest at the site.
...
Pioneer Monuments
Pioneer monuments may appear to some observers as wholesome
representations of the hard-working forebears of many White
Westerners, said Cynthia Prescott, a professor of history at the
University of North Dakota and the author of "Pioneer Mother
Monuments." When she first began documenting the effects of 200
or so pioneer mother monuments across the West, she thought of
the genre as "grandma in a sun bonnet."
But the monuments’ intent was far from benign.
She cites research from 2019 by University of Oregon scholar
Marc Carpenter, who as a doctoral candidate looked at the
speeches by donors and the intent of the sculptor when the
Pioneer sculpture was installed at his university. (The same
artist, Alexander Phimister Proctor, crafted the Roosevelt
monument in Portland and a statue of Robert E. Lee in Dallas
that was removed from public view in 2017 and now resides at a
Texas golf resort.)
At the University of Oregon, it was obvious even to those who
attended the installation of the statue that they were honoring
not just White settlement, Carpenter suggests, but also
remembering White dominance of Indigenous people. In a paper
urging the University of Oregon to remove the Pioneer statue,
Carpenter wrote that unlike the Confederate statues of the
South, “in the West, our problematic monuments are to America’s
other great sin, the violent seizure of Native lands and murder
of Native peoples.”
"You don't have to dig very far to find out that there's a
racial subtext intended here," Prescott said of pioneer
memorials. "That was what donors and the people involved in
their dedication are thinking about.”[/quote]
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