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Christopher Columbus statue taken down hours after Lightfoot ordered its removal
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 24, 2020 | Tom Schuba

Posted on 07/24/2020 4:11:13 AM PDT by PBRCat

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To: Mouton

I have never been to Chicago but as an American with Italian ancestors, my father came from Italy at 6, I would never spend a dime there.

I will make sure none of my family spends a dime there. When they find out about this they will not.

I still want to know what an indigenous person is. does indigenous mean loser who can’t hold onto his land?


41 posted on 07/24/2020 5:46:29 AM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: Clutch Martin
It’s pretty well established that the Vikings were probably in the Americas previous to Columbus stumbling upon it.

So what? The Vikings didn't do anything with their "discovery". It was basically a secret. Columbus deserves credit for discovering the Americas. He didn't find what he was looking for, but he found a lot more. And everybody knew it and headed west right after him.

42 posted on 07/24/2020 5:46:38 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: PBRCat

So the sacrifice by all those police officers injured earlier this week protecting the statue was for naught.


43 posted on 07/24/2020 5:55:24 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Old Yeller

Mrs O’leary’s Cow?

Fake news is really old:

https://www.mamalisa.com/?lang=English&t=es&p=2353


44 posted on 07/24/2020 6:01:13 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Old Yeller

Mrs. O’leary’s Cow pic

https://www.mamalisa.com/images/non_ml_images/olearys_cow.gif


45 posted on 07/24/2020 6:01:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Bonemaker

How does anyone understand everything she says out of, “I am Groot!”??


46 posted on 07/24/2020 6:04:56 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: PBRCat

"Remove white people from my presence, Ackackack!"

47 posted on 07/24/2020 6:11:33 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: PBRCat

What in the hell does this accomplish?


48 posted on 07/24/2020 6:13:27 AM PDT by krug
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To: PBRCat

Absolutely racist.

Everyone knows that Columbus represents the Italian ethnic community in America.
Columbus Day is a de facto Italian-American holiday.

These moves tearing down Columbus statues are racist hate crimes aimed at all Americans of Italian descent. What’s next? Tearing down statues of African Americans like Martin Luther King?

Where will it end? Prohibitions against green beer on St Patrick’s day?
Destruction of tacos on Cino de Mayo?


49 posted on 07/24/2020 6:43:25 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: PBRCat

If I post what I’m thinking right now....

L


50 posted on 07/24/2020 6:44:26 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: PBRCat

The Democrat Party itself is the biggest, most powerful relic of slavery. Is it time to take down this relic of the past? Are we learning from history by keeping it up?


51 posted on 07/24/2020 6:52:03 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: HighSierra5

She’s even more “beautiful” on the inside.


52 posted on 07/24/2020 7:01:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: PBRCat

The mob is gonna burn her city.


53 posted on 07/24/2020 10:30:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Flick Lives

The peasant taxpayers of Mittcago had to pay overtime for these crews, sent by Royal Edict of Mayor “Kareensha” Groot.


54 posted on 07/24/2020 10:32:10 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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Yep, "Kareensha" is a real Grooty...


55 posted on 07/24/2020 10:34:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Texas Fossil
“In a sane world, Lori Lightfoot wouldn’t have a job more significant than replacing the wafers in the urinal of men’s rooms..."

Wearing a full-face muzzle to keep her from eating them...

56 posted on 07/24/2020 10:36:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Pontiac

I think the precursor to all of this was when they took down the statue of Kate Smith that was in front of the Flyers stadium. A woman who sang at the Apollo over 2 dozen times.


57 posted on 07/24/2020 10:37:00 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Sans-Culotte

“The Vikings didn’t do anything with their “discovery”. It was basically a secret.”

Secret fisheries perhaps.

It might also be dependent on the health or longevity of a culture at the time of discovery.

That’s like saying the Germans discovered pi when in actuality pi was discovered 300 years earlier in India.

Discovery is discovery and when people unknowingly take credit for it is still discovery but only in the context of cultures that assumes sole proprietorship.


58 posted on 07/24/2020 12:06:23 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: kiryandil

hee hee hee Yes, that dumb.


59 posted on 07/24/2020 1:23:09 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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