COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Protesters gathered in front of Columbus City Hall on Saturday to call for a statue of the city’s namesake to be taken down.
Tynan Krakoff is the lead organizer of Showing Up For Racial Justice, the group putting on this rally, and said the statue of Christopher Columbus represents some of the bad in American history.
“We’re calling on the city council, the mayor and the city of Columbus to remove the statue,” said Krakoff to NBC4 on Friday.
Some marchers draped a banner over the Columbus statue that read “TOPPLE WHITE SUPREMACY NOW.”
Mayor Andy Ginther released a statement Saturday afternoon:
I support the removal of monuments celebrating the Confederacy, but I would urge people to remember that the disturbing and tragic events that unfolded in Charlottesville were not about statues, but about persistent racism in our country. There are many perspectives on the Christopher Columbus statue, but let’s not be distracted from the need to address the real problem: the racial divide in our community and across the country.
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Idiots all over the country think they can change history by destroying concrete or steel statues. They know nothing about history.\ History is blind.It does not live,it already happened.You cant change it no matter how much left wing dogma you swallow,how much you reinvent the textbooks or strap a statue,pull it down kick it with your tennis shoes(really smart) and then spit on it.
People are confusing value judgments with history,the two are different animals.value judgments are made constantly they change all the time some love some hate,some don't give a dam.
History remains blind. It just happens. Right wrong,indifferent, it just happens.
It's still history,it still happened.
You gotta wonder how stupid some people are.
Sheesh. As Teddy White referred to China’s “Red Guards” during Mao’s “Cultural Revolution:” The Roots of Madness.