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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 22, 2020, 11:56 pm
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HTML https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/house-votes-to-remove-confederate-statues-from-capitol
[quote]WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bill to remove
statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the
U.S. Capitol, as well as a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,
the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African
Americans couldn’t be citizens.
Besides Taney, the bill would direct the Architect of the
Capitol to identify and eventually remove from Statuary Hall at
least 10 statues honoring Confederate officials, including Lee,
the commanding general of the Confederate Army, and Jefferson
Davis, the Confederate president. Three statues honoring white
supremacists — including former U.S. Vice President John C.
Calhoun of South Carolina — would be immediately
removed.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 23, 2020, 11:34 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286441986694631425
[quote]"The Promised Land" bronze sculpture has been removed by
the city of Portland.[/quote]
What is the Promised Land?
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land
[quote]The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ
המובטחת‎,
translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض
الميعاد‎,
translit.: ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and
Honey") is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew
Bible), was promised and subsequently given by God to Abraham
and his descendants[/quote]
Manifest Destiny is based on this. So removing the statue is
another victory for us.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 24, 2020, 1:08 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-taken-down-090216918.html
[quote]CHICAGO (AP) — Two statues of Christopher Columbus that
stood in Chicago parks were taken down early Friday at the
direction of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a week after protesters
trying to topple one of the monuments to the Italian explorer
clashed with police.
Crews used a large crane to remove the statue in downtown
Chicago’s Grant Park from its pedestal. A small crowd cheered
and passing cars honked as the statue came down about 3 a.m. The
second statue was removed about 5:30 a.m. from Arrigo Park in
Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood.
...
“This statue coming down is because of the effort of Black and
Indigenous activists who know the true history of Columbus and
what he represents,” Stefan Cuevas-Caizaguano, a resident
watching the removal, told the Chicago Sun-Times.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 19, 2020, 2:21 pm
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Contrary to what rightists claim, Cancel Culture is not a
product of postmodernism:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-cancel-cultures-defacement-statues-121956370.html
[quote]Since at least the third millennium B.C., economically,
socially and politically marginalized people have questioned
authority by mutilating public images of rulers. And those in
power have destroyed monuments to reinforce their authority and
erase the names and accomplishments of their predecessors.
As art historian Erin L. Thompson recently explained,
“destruction is the norm and preservation is the rare
exception.”
Akkadians, who lived in Mesopotamia between about 2300 and 2150
B.C., created a bronze likeness of one of their living rulers.
This portrait probably represents King Sargon of Akkad, known
for conquering nearby Sumerian city-states. Although the
likeness initially glorified the king, it was later purposefully
mutilated. Akkadians cut off its ears, broke its nose and gouged
out one of its eyes.
Importantly, Akkadians chose to mar rather than obliterate this
monument to Sargon. Their goal was not to erase history but to
show in dramatic fashion the downfall and ultimate humiliation
of a once powerful leader.
Thousands of years later, Mesoamericans engaged in a similar
practice. The Olmec, who lived in the lowlands of the Gulf of
Mexico between approximately 1400 B.C. and A.D. 400,
purposefully disfigured colossal heads.
These portraits of rulers’ faces were carved from basalt
boulders. The largest weighs about 40 tons and measures over 10
feet high. Many have had pieces of their noses or lips broken
off. Others have gouges carved into their surfaces or pox marks
ground into their faces. Many were also buried.
...
Many details about the Olmec colossal heads remain unknown.
Elsewhere in Mesoamerica, however, the circumstances are more
clear. In some instances, commoners purposefully destroyed and
reused portraits of rulers.
...
Ancestral Chatinos occupied coastal Oaxaca prior to the arrival
of the Mixtecs around A.D. 1100. At Río Viejo in Oaxaca,
archaeologist Arthur Joyce and colleagues excavated the ruins of
an ancestral Chatino residence dating to approximately A.D.
800-1100.
At that residence, Joyce found a piece of a carved stone
monument depicting the face of a ruler. In a politically
motivated move, the peasants chose to reuse the monument
fragment, a powerful symbol of authority, as a metate – a stone
for grinding grain and seeds.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 30, 2020, 3:38 am
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Another one comes down:
HTML https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-mob-tears-down-statue-of-sir-john-a-macdonald-in-downtown-montreal
[quote]The words "RCMP **** Native Women/Kill Native Men" were
written onto the base of the monument, as Macdonald's
controversial history of behaviour towards Indigenous
communities continues to be a point of contention.[/quote]
More on MacDonald:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald
[quote]He has been criticized for his role in the Chinese Head
Tax and federal policies towards indigenous peoples, including
his actions during the North-West Rebellion that resulted in
Riel's execution.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax_in_Canada
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Act
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqyB48w4Sro
All of Western civilization must fall like this!
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 13, 2020, 11:18 pm
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HTML https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2020/sep/03/confederate-monument-removed-from-bentonville/
HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/confederate-statue-near-site-violent-charlottesville-unite-right-rally-gets-n1239952
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 7, 2020, 11:27 pm
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More action at last!
HTML https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/917046641/u-s-statue-removals-inspire-indigenous-people-in-latin-america-to-topple-monumen
[quote]The campaign to remove Confederate statues and other
symbols of white supremacy in the United States is resonating in
Latin America, where protesters have destroyed monuments to
European colonizers who brutalized Indigenous populations.
The latest target was a statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a
Spanish conquistador. He founded the Colombian cities of Popayán
and Cali in 1537, while leading a military campaign that killed
and enslaved of thousands of Misak Indigenous people.
After authorities foiled two previous attempts to remove the
statue, located on the outskirts of Popayán, Misak leaders sent
decoy protesters into the center of the city on Sept. 16,
drawing police attention. Meanwhile, a smaller group of Misak
approached the monument, used ropes to pull down it down, then
pounded it with rocks, separating the head from the torso.
"The time has come to get rid of these statues all across the
Americas," said Jesus Maria Aranda, a Misak leader who noted
that the de Belalcázar statue was built atop a sacred Misak
religious site. "The conquistadors did so much damage to
Indigenous peoples."
...
But more often, protesters focus on representations of
Christopher Columbus and other European explorers who first
landed in the Americas at the end of the 15th century. During
anti-government marches last year in Chile, Mapuche protesters
toppled an effigy of the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia,
who established the Chilean capital city of Santiago but is now
widely reviled for waging war on the Mapuche.
All told, about 60 statues in Chile were damaged or destroyed
during the protests, according to the National Monuments
Council. Such acts are considered criminal vandalism, but they
haven't stopped. Last month, protesters in the Chilean town of
Lumaco attacked a bust of Cornelio Saavedra, an army officer who
led raids against the Mapuche in the 1800s. The protesters
pulled it down and tossed it into a river.
...
In Mexico City, city council member Teresa Ramos wants all
traces of the conquistadors erased. She is demanding the removal
of statues of Columbus and Hernán Cortés, who conquered the
Aztec Empire in the 1500s, and wants streets honoring their
memory to be renamed.[/quote]
Yes! And this must happen not just in the New World, but in all
lands ever subjected to Western colonialism. This is what will
synbolize the unification of people all over the world as
victims of Western colonialism, and with this unification we
will kill Western civilization once and for all!
[img width=1280
height=959]
HTML https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/09/25/gettyimages-1228552158-8c33129c2f3b2c77b3ed8e0e740bd9fa72a47674-s1600-c85.jpg[/img]
(And again, what is with all these implicitly Turanian
compositions for statues of colonialists?)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 9, 2020, 11:58 pm
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Still a long way to go:
HTML https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-whose-heritage-dataset-updates-september-15-2020
[quote]Total number of Confederate symbols removed/relocated
from public spaces or renamed since George Floyd’s death (May
25, 2020): 93
Removed: 64
-60 monuments
-1 state flag (MS)
-1 holiday (VA)
-2 Confederate flag emblems (SD police department assets and VA
town seal)
Relocated: 10
-10 Confederate monuments
Renamed: 19
-10 schools
-4 colleges (1 campus; 3 buildings)
-2 parks/trails (CA and VA)
-2 roads (TX)
-1 body of water (VA)
Since the Charleston church shooting in 2015:
146 total symbols have been removed from public spaces
123 monuments have been removed or relocated from public spaces
(109 monuments removed; 14 monuments relocated)
Nearly 1,800 Confederate symbols remain on public land; 698 of
those symbols are monuments.[/quote]
Further information:
HTML https://www.npr.org/2020/10/06/919193176/confederate-statues-come-down-around-u-s-but-not-everywhere
And remember: Confederate statues are just the beginning. We
will not rest until every Western statue all over the world from
the colonial era has been toppled. (And then we can move onto
buildings.....)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: guest5 Date: October 12, 2020, 11:02 pm
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Protesters knock down Roosevelt, Lincoln statues in Portland
[quote]Protesters overturned statues of former Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Oregon, on
Sunday night in a declaration of “rage” towards Columbus Day.
Protest organisers dubbed the event “Indigenous Peoples Day of
Rage,” in response to Monday’s federal holiday named after
15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, a polarising
figure who Native American advocates have said spurred centuries
of genocide against Indigenous populations in the
Americas.[/quote]
[quote]The group threw chains around Roosevelt’s statue,
officially titled “Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider”. They threw
red paint on the monument and began using a blowtorch on the
statue’s base, news outlets reported.
The crowd pulled down the statue just before 9pm local time
(04:00 GMT). The group later turned their attention towards
Lincoln’s statue, pulling it down about eight minutes later.
Historians have said Roosevelt expressed hostility towards
Native Americans, once saying, “I don’t go so far as to think
that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine
out of every 10 are.”
Protesters spray-painted “Dakota 38” on the base of Lincoln’s
statue, referencing the 38 Dakota men Lincoln approved to have
hanged after the men were involved in a violent conflict with
white settlers in Minnesota.
After toppling the statues, the crowd began smashing windows at
the Oregon Historical Society and later moved onto the Portland
State University Campus Public Safety office.[/quote]
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/12/us-protesters-knock-down-roosevelt-lincoln-statues-in-portland
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 12, 2020, 11:24 pm
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Down it goes!
HTML https://twitter.com/NDpendentPDX/status/1315504850788990976
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HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkGh8FwXYAIyQS_?format=jpg&name=small[/img]
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