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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2021, 1:27 am
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I told you we'd be starting on buildings soon:
HTML https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/carolina-home-white-supremacist-voted-off-landmark-list-75641385
[quote]RALEIGH, N.C. -- The home of a former North Carolina
newspaper publisher who helped orchestrate an 1898 riot in which
at least 60 Blacks were killed was removed Tuesday from a list
of local historic landmarks.
The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously to strip the home of
Josephus Daniels of the local designation, The News & Observer
of Raleigh reported.[/quote]
This means it can be destroyed at the discretion of a future
owner, as our enemies fret over:
HTML https://vdare.com/letters/a-nc-reader-says-the-city-of-raleigh-is-willing-to-allow-historic-buildings-to-be-paved-over-if-were-owned-by-white-supremacists
Back to original link, note current ownership:
[quote]The house, called Wakestone, has been home to the Masonic
Temple of Raleigh since 1950.
“Simply stated, ties to the Josephus Daniels’s legacy presents a
dark cloud over the Freemasons/Masonic Temple of Raleigh
organization,” Murray said, adding that the Masons worry about
the property being the site of protests and unrest.[/quote]
Too late! We already know who you are:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/freemasons-say-they're-needed-now-more-than-ever-so-why-are-their-ranks-dwindlin/
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 23, 2021, 10:42 pm
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Down goes Isabella!
HTML https://colombiareports.com/colombia-removes-statues-of-columbus-and-spanish-queen-after-attacks/
[quote]Colombia’s culture ministry removed statues of
15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus and Spain’s late
Queen Isabella amid fears they would be tumbled.
Government workers removed the statues from their pedestals in
the capital Bogota on Friday after native Colombian protesters
tried to tumble them on Wednesday.
The attempts triggered tensions with a fringe white supremacist
group that subsequently tried to attack the protesters of the
Misak people from southwest Colombia.
...
The native Colombians celebrated the decision on Saturday by
victoriously climbing the empty pedestals of the late Italian
explorer and his Spanish financial patron.
The Misak people have been tumbling statues associated with the
Spanish colonization of the Americas and the extermination of
indigenous people since anti-government protests began in late
April.
The statues of Spanish conquistadors have long been deeply
offensive to many native Colombians but weren’t targeted by the
native Colombians until this year.
The tumbling of the statues triggered mixed reactions as late
conquistador Sebastian De Belalcazar is both the founder of
cities like Cali and Popayan and one of the most notorious
leaders of the 16-century holocaust of native Colombians.
In a statement, the Misak said Saturday that they would continue
to assume their “ancestral responsibility to clean those clean
colonial wounds and seek the healing of all colonial
wounds.”[/quote]
OK, but if we can take down statues of Columbus, why are we
still calling the country "Colombia" after Columbus? We need:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/
[quote]Some among Colombia’s white majority continue to consider
Columbus and even controversial characters like Belalcazar as
part of their cultural identity.[/quote]
These are the only ones who should be called Colombians (and
hence Western occupiers). The rest should choose a new name.
Before the Western colonialists came along, local statues looked
like this:
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There is more beauty in just this one piece than in everything
from the Renaissance combined! (In fact it reminds me of:
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/>)
And yet the inferior were allowed to come over and build their
Homo Hubris eyesore **** all over the place:
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Jalpan_de_Serra_7.jpg/437px-Jalpan_de_Serra_7.jpg
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Detalle_de_Fachada.jpg/399px-Detalle_de_Fachada.jpg
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Misi%C3%B3n_de_Landa_de_Matamoros_15.jpg/450px-Misi%C3%B3n_de_Landa_de_Matamoros_15.jpg
etc. etc.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 29, 2021, 12:06 am
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HTML https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2021/06/27/40-50-people-gather-custer-falls-again-rally/5357925001/
[quote]No elected officials from the City of Monroe are believed
to have attended Friday's 'Custer Falls Again' rally at St.
Mary's Park, which drew a crowd of about 50 people who shrugged
off steady rain showers to protest the General George Armstrong
Custer monument that has sat in downtown Monroe for over a
century.
The crowd gathered in the park located just yards away from the
111-year-old statue to listen to traditional Native American
songs, eat Indigenous foods, and hear from speakers who came
from across the State of Michigan to denounce the monument and
the man it depicts.
Hosted jointly by local activist group Good Trouble Monroe and
the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party, the
rally was held on the 145th anniversary of Custer's defeat and
death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was just the
latest in a series of similar events in the city since local
activist Katybeth Davis started a Change.org petition last June
calling for the statue's removal, arguing that it represents the
glorification of a man who led a genocide against Native
Americans.
The petition currently has over 14,000 signatures.[/quote]
It doesn't take 14000 people to pull down the statue. 40-50
might even be enough.
[quote]Davis said that while she extended an invitation to every
member of city council, only councilman Andrew Felder notified
her that he would be unable to attend Friday's rally due to a
prior commitment.
"I'm not surprised at all," Davis said of the elected officials'
decision not to attend the rally. "They don't want to have to
look Native Americans in the eyes. They don't want to have to be
confronted, or even have to deal with that."
...
The speakers at Friday's rally were united in calling for the
city to remove the statue, with Anishinaabek Caucus secretary
and Pokagon Elder Julie Dye saying "We're here to tell the
citizens and government leaders that if your heroes are
murderers and military failures, your values are grounded in
white supremacy."[/quote]
And what should be done with those with such values? (Answer:
the same as is done to their statues.)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2021, 12:14 am
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Good work!
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/colombian-anti-government-protesters-topple-122840218.html
[quote]Anti-government protesters in Colombia have toppled a
statue of Christopher Columbus in the coastal city of
Barranquilla.
The figure of the European explorer, after whom Colombia is
named, was dragged from its plinth with ropes and vandalised.
...
The Columbus statue is the latest to be pulled from its pedestal
as part of the anti-government protests which have been sweeping
through the country.
One of the first to fall was that of the 16th Century Spanish
conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar in the south-western city
of Popayán in September.
A group of Colombians from the Misak, Nasa and Pijao indigenous
groups said that they had toppled the statue after putting
Belalcázar on trial and finding him guilty of genocide,
enslavement, torture, rape and stealing their ancestral lands.
Since then, another statue of Belalcázar in the city of Cali has
also been toppled.
In the capital, Bogotá, members of the Misak indigenous group
demolished a statue of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, the Spanish
conquistador who founded the city in 1638.[/quote]
[img]
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[img]
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Again, note the Turanian statue composition in the second
picture.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 30, 2021, 10:08 pm
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HTML https://www.times-standard.com/2021/06/28/madison-grant-memorial-removed-from-prairie-creek-redwoods-state-park-over-his-racist-eugenics-beliefs/
[quote]In keeping with a nationwide effort to remove monuments
that have long honored racist figures, California State Parks
officials recently removed a 1948 memorial honoring Madison
Grant in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.[/quote]
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congress-confederates-statues-house/2021/06/29/304f7960-d8db-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html
[quote]The House on Tuesday passed legislation to remove statues
of Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol and replace the
bust of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. chief justice who wrote the
1857 Supreme Court decision that said people of African descent
are not U.S. citizens.[/quote]
HTML https://tnc.new
s/2021/06/29/a-timeline-of-every-town-that-has-cancelled-canada-
day-celebrations-in-2021/
(chart at link)
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2021, 10:05 pm
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A good day:
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57693683
[quote]Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II torn
down in Canada
A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by
protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of
indigenous children at residential schools.
The protesters cheered as the statue at the legislature in
Manitoba's capital Winnipeg was toppled on Thursday.
A smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II was also upended nearby.
...
The British government condemned the toppling of the two
statues.
"We obviously condemn any defacing of statues of the Queen," a
spokesman said.
...
A group of protesters had marched on the Manitoba Legislature as
part of a demonstration against the deaths of indigenous
Canadian children at residential schools.
Monarch of the UK, Canada and other territories from 1837 until
her death in 1901, Queen Victoria was on the throne during the
founding of the Canadian confederation. The British Crown
negotiated treaties with indigenous First Nations in Canada and
the government enacted its residential schools policy during her
reign.
At the protest in Winnipeg, the statue of Queen Victoria was
daubed in red paint while a sign saying "we were children" was
left nearby.
A survivor of a residential school, Belinda Vandenbroeck, told
Canadian broadcaster CBC she felt no remorse about the toppling
of the statue, which she had had no part in.
"She [Queen Victoria] means nothing to me except that her
policies and her colonialism is what is dictating us right to
this minute as you and I speak," Ms Vandenbroeck said.
Symbols of empire, colonialism and slavery have been targeted by
protesters at demonstrations against racial injustice across the
globe in the past year.[/quote]
Video:
HTML https://twitter.com/APTNNews/status/1410753619431919618
HTML https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CDA8/production/_119184625_c4b1f26d-fbcc-472f-b16c-053b56f285ab.jpg
HTML https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9036/production/_119181963_068354435-1.jpg
In theory, it is not yet too late to topple the actual
Elizabeth, who is one of the rare colonialists with statues who
are personally not dead yet. Such an action would be of
infinitely greater symbolic power than merely toppling her
statue.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/'royal'-family-hate-thread/
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2021, 11:56 pm
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It was a long wait, but it was worth it:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-remove-confederate-monuments-saturday-173505420.html
[quote]A Confederate monument that helped spark a violent white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaving one
person dead, came down Saturday.
Dozens of people lined the block and cheered as the bronze
statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was hoisted off its
pedestal. Streets were blocked off, and there was a visible
police presence.
"Taking down this statue is one small step closer to the goal of
helping Charlottesville, Virginia, and America, grapple with the
sin of being willing to destroy Black people for economic gain,"
Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said during a speech before
the monument was removed.
The statue of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson came down soon
afterward.
...
"We've waited for this day for more than four years – for 100
years, really," said Kristin Szakos, a former Charlottesville
City Council member and community activist. "Of course there’s
still a lot of work to do to bring real racial equity, but this
is an important step."[/quote]
We have been waiting for over 500 years for Western civilization
to die. I hope at least some of us here live to see it happen.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 11, 2021, 10:14 pm
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One more:
HTML https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/charlottesville-takes-down-sacagawea-statue-after-confederate-removals/
[quote]The city of Charlottesville, Va. followed up its removal
of two controversial Confederate statues Saturday with the
lightning-fast toppling of a third local landmark: a monumental
tribute to explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and
Sacagawea.
In an emergency meeting called with 20 minutes’ notice, the
Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to cancel another
piece of public art targeted by left-wing activists.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 12, 2021, 11:23 pm
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HTML https://www.thecollegefix.com/walt-whitman-statue-a-target-of-protests-to-be-removed-from-center-of-rutgers-camden-campus/
[quote]Rutgers University-Camden will remove a statue of the
famous poet Walt Whitman from the center of campus as a result
of activists’ petitions and a recommendation from a committee of
scholars.
The statue of Whitman, featured prominently in the front
courtyard of Camden’s Campus Center, will be “relocated to a
historically relevant site on campus and contextualized,”
interim Chancellor Margaret Marsh recently announced in an email
to students and employees.
That new location has yet to be announced by campus officials.
A petition circulated last year stated that “the statue of Walt
Whitman glorifies a man who we should not hold such a place of
honor on our campus. … He instead stood for white supremacy and
racism against Black and Indigenous Americans.”[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 13, 2021, 10:34 pm
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This is why it is not enough to topple statues. More
importantly, we must terminate the bloodlines that might rebuild
these statues:
HTML https://ca.news.yahoo.com/two-damaged-queen-statues-manitoba-165229745.html
[quote]WINNIPEG — Statues of two queens that were torn down by
protesters on the Manitoba legislature grounds will be rebuilt,
Premier Brian Pallister said Wednesday.
...
Pallister's remarks on Canada's history, however, were
criticized.
"The people who came here to this country ... didn't come here
to destroy anything. They came here to build," he said.
"They came to build better ... and they built farms, and they
built businesses, and they built communities and churches, too."
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs called the comments abhorrent.
"To minimize, romanticize and celebrate the settler colonialism
that displaced First Nations from their ancient and sacred lands
in the most brutal and heinous ways, the way he did in his
comments, is unconscionable and a desecration to the graves of
the ancestors on which the legislature is built and on which the
City of Winnipeg now lies," interim Grand Chief Leroy Constant
said in a prepared statement.
Nahanni Fontaine, who is Indigenous and the justice critic for
the Opposition New Democrats, said Pallister was revising
history.
"Reconciliation is impossible when you have a settler at the
helm denying, romanticizing and minimizing colonization," a
message posted on Fontaine's Twitter feed said.
"Canada was forged in the blood of our Peoples, on the bodies of
our women and children, and in the theft of our lands."
Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont said in a prepared statement that
Pallister's remarks were shameful and tone-deaf.
"This is the hard truth: Canada’s prosperity was built on
Indigenous suffering and an indifference to Indigenous lives and
rights."[/quote]
So what is our ethical duty in response to this? It is certainly
not "reconciliation" with the oppressors. Anyone who calls this:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/canada-residential-schools/
is "building better" is no better than the perpetrators
themselves, and should be treated as if they were the direct
perpetrators.
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