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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 26, 2021, 10:36 pm
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Remember, holidays count as statues:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-marks-anniversary-1517-spanish-220000668.html
[quote]Mexico marks anniversary of 1517 Spanish defeat
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico marked the anniversary of the first
serious defeat suffered by Spanish conquistadores on Mexican
soil Thursday, amid the 500th anniversary commemorations of the
1519-1521 Conquest.
The March 25, 1517 battle of Champotón actually pre-dated the
arrival of conquistador Hernán Cortés two years later.
The 1517 expedition led by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba sailed
around the Yucatán peninsula and landed at Champotón, on
Mexico’s Gulf coast, looking for fresh water. They were met by
Chontal Maya Indigenous warriors who attacked the Europeans,
inflicting wounds that eventually killed about 50 Spaniards,
including Hernández de Córdoba.
Known by the Spaniards as “the Bad Battle,” Mexico now wants to
call it “The Good Battle," similar to the approach the
government has taken in renaming famous Conquest sites
originally named by Spaniards.
For example, the tree that marked a famous defeat of Cortés in
1520 was known as the Tree of the Sad Night, but Mexico City
officials now call it the Tree of the Victorious Night.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presided over a ceremony
and a re-enactment marking the 504th anniversary of the battle,
accompanied by Bolivian President Luís Arce.
“Honor to all our Indigenous brothers who gave their lives for
the sovereignty of our territory,” Arce said.
López Obrador said “this ceremony is an homage to the anonymous
heroes of the Indigenous resistance who resisted as long as they
could the three centuries of oppression under the colonial
regime.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.mattorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SpanishFlagBurning.jpg
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Imperio_Espa%C3%B1ol_%281714-1800%29.png/800px-Imperio_Espa%C3%B1ol_%281714-1800%29.png
The most important point to emphasize is that Spanish (and
Portugese) colonialism would never have happened in the first
place if only the Iberian peninsula had remained Andalus.
Therefore all former victims of Spanish (and Portugese)
colonialism should feel gratitude and fellowship towards Islam.
After Andalus fell, this is what happened to the world:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Iberian_mare_clausum_claims.svg/800px-Iberian_mare_clausum_claims.svg.png
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: guest5 Date: March 30, 2021, 12:40 am
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Good for Mexico and Mexico city! This is awesome! :)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 30, 2021, 10:17 pm
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A new milestone:
HTML https://greensboro.com/confederate-monument-honoring-former-north-carolina-governor-will-be-destroyed/article_cad6bd84-9099-11eb-a2b0-77ec0312d9ab.html
[quote]Last week, Asheville city leaders voted to take down the
Vance Monument, which honors former Gov. Zebulon Vance, a white
supremacist. It has stood since 1897 at a downtown site.
The City Council’s decision paves the way for destroying the
75-foot obelisk — a marked change from plans for other
Confederate monuments across the state that are being stored or
moved rather than demolished.[/quote]
Previously we relied on activists destroying statues before
authorities could relocate them. This is the first case where
authorities agree to destroy a statue. This precedent can now
(and should!) be cited as an example when discussing what to do
with other colonial-era statues.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 7, 2021, 10:25 pm
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Down goes another!
HTML https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-statue-removed-20210406-yhvbet6t2jdarfvt4y2zalwin4-story.html
[quote]A statue dedicated in 1980 to Capt. John O’Donnell, an
Irish-born merchant who enslaved people on his plantation in
Canton, was removed Monday night by Baltimore City.
Mayor Brandon Scott, who ordered the removal, said it was a
“historical moment” but far from the last in a city with no
shortage of monuments, streets and schools named for people with
oppressive legacies. He pledged to work with the city
administrator to establish an official process for reviewing
“these cruel monuments while continuing to promote equitable
policies to right yesterday’s wrongs.”
...
Scott thanked the Canton Anti-Racism Alliance for its
persistence and continuous work in “building an inclusive
Baltimore.”[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 22, 2021, 10:12 pm
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Another win:
HTML https://www.opb.org/article/2021/04/15/billy-frank-jr-in-marcus-whitman-out-as-part-of-us-capitol-statue-swap/
[quote]Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa helped lead one of
the first wagon trains into the Oregon Country in 1836. The
establishment of the Whitman Mission in the Walla Walla Valley —
followed by his family's death about a decade later during an
attack by a Cayuse band — ushered in waves of additional
settlers and then soldiers, all of which upended the lifeways of
the indigenous people.
...
The existing Whitman statue in Walla Walla has been repeatedly
vandalized with graffiti and red paint and is the target of an
ongoing campaign to be removed. An online petition asserts that
the monument celebrates "a history of racialized oppression" and
is unworthy of civic honor.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 5, 2021, 12:20 am
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HTML https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hawaii-close-honoring-juneteenth-leaving-1-state-holdout-n1265564
[quote]HONOLULU — Hawaii was poised to become the 49th state to
recognize Juneteenth after the House and Senate on Tuesday
passed legislation designating June 19 as a day to commemorate
the end of slavery in the United States.
If Hawaii’s governor signs the bill, South Dakota would be the
only remaining state that doesn’t recognize the day as either a
state holiday or a day of observance. South Dakota’s Senate
passed a measure earlier this year that would observe the day,
but the bill didn’t make it through the House.[/quote]
Almost there! More Demographic Blueshift will get us there for
sure!
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 10, 2021, 1:21 am
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Another:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/protesters-topple-statue-bogota-123312794.html
[quote]The statue of conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada was
pulled down as tensions simmered in the capital, with hundreds
of people march through the streets.[/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Jim%C3%A9nez_de_Quesada
[quote]His father, Luis Jiménez de Quesada,[5] was a hidalgo
relative of Gonzalo Francisco de Cordoba, and he had two
well-known distant cousins, the conquistadores of Mexico and
Peru respectively: Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro. He had
three younger brothers; Hernán and Francisco, who also were
conquistadors, and Melchor, and a sister, Andrea.[6]
...
The psihipqua Bogotá, ruled in Muyquytá; the other, the hoa
Eucaneme, ruled in Hunza. Taking advantage of a war between the
two chiefdoms, Quesada's force subdued Muyquytá and then
successfully attacked Hunza. At this point it was time to
establish a settlement so that the earth itself might properly
belong to De Quesada and his men. They chose a spot next to the
towering peaks of the east, where the land was high and the
rains would quickly run off, where the mountains would protect
them from attackers and the jungles below. Quesada placed his
right foot on the bare earth and said simply, "I take possession
of this land in the name of the most sovereign emperor, Charles
V."[/quote]
We are taking it back!
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 16, 2021, 10:14 pm
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Encouragement:
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57124887
[quote]Biden revokes Trump order to punish statue vandals
...
Mr Trump issued an order in June 2020 instructing the federal
government "to prosecute to the fullest extent" any person "that
destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument,
memorial, or statue".
The proclamation - which singled out "rioters, arsonists and
left-wing extremists" - was a popular talking point for the
Republican president at his rallies.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 21, 2021, 11:50 pm
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Back to Stone Mountain:
HTML https://archive.is/4qYCf
[quote]there’s nothing quite like Georgia’s Stone Mountain, a
giant outcropping of granite in the suburbs of Atlanta that
bears a three-acre carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee,
and Stonewall Jackson on horseback. The question of what to do
with this very deliberately constructed tribute to those who
tried to overthrow the U.S. government in defense of slavery is
unavoidable.
...
All this history is coming to a head next week when the board of
the state authority that manages Stone Mountain Park will meet
to consider proposals to deal with the giant embarrassment.
The board is not expected to endorse the simple idea embraced by
many civil-rights activists, including 2018 Democratic
gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams: to sandblast the carving
right off the mountainside. Governor Brian Kemp, who narrowly
defeated Abrams in 2018 and will likely face a rematch with her
next year, has opposed such measures. In a tweet two years ago,
Kemp said, “I will protect Stone Mountain and historical
monuments in Georgia from the radical left. We should learn from
the past - not attempt to re-write it.” But even Kemp now seems
defensive about the monstrosity, appointing a Black minister as
chairman of the park’s board.
More than likely, the board will propose “contextualizing” the
carving with exhibits on the whole history of its planning,
development, and dedication, while also getting rid of some of
the park’s antebellum trappings that make the whole place feel
like the set of Gone With the Wind. In other words, an effort
will be made to “learn from the past,” which kind of misses the
point the carving loudly tries to make that the past really
isn’t past at all.
As it happens, I spent a good chunk of my life near Stone
Mountain, or passing it on the way to Athens, and always
regarded the carving as an ugly monument not to the Confederacy
but to the determination of white conservative Georgians to
ensure its hateful legacy lived on and on. Perhaps the state
should take a page from the demolition of the Berlin Wall and
give Georgians the opportunity to wield a sledgehammer or a
laser and do some damage to the carving as a sort of spiritual
reparation. Anything would be better than pretending this
mammoth exhibit represented an innocent effort to honor the
dead.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 24, 2021, 10:13 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/20/cecil-rhodes-statue-will-not-be-removed-for-now-says-oxford-oriel-college
[quote]Campaigners and politicians have condemned the University
of Oxford for backtracking on its previous decision to remove a
statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes and ignore the
views of an independent commission.[/quote]
Now all of Oxford will have to be demolished.
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