Posted on 06/27/2020 7:35:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
Madrid, Spain, Jun 24, 2020 / 06:07 pm MT (CNA).- The mayor of Boadilla del Monte, a town just west of metro Madrid in central Spain, has offered to take the statue of Saint Junipero Serra toppled last weekend in San Francisco.
Serra’s statue was torn down in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park June 19, along with other statues of Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star Spangled Banner” and former U.S. president and Civil War general, Ulysses S. Grant.
The statue was one of numerous depictions of historic figures pulled down in the past week amid ongoing protests and riots throughout the country. While some protests have torn down the statues of Confederate figures, as part of a call to end systemic racism, other statues have also been torn down from prominent locations, including one of George Washington.
During the San Francisco protests, a statue of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the Spanish classic “Don Quixote” was tagged with the epithet “bastard.”
According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, Javier Úbeda, the mayor of Boadilla del Monte, wrote to the mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, offering to take the downed statue of Serra, as well as the vandalized statue of Cervantes.
“I can’t help writing to show you my deepest disappointment at the events that have occurred, but also to offer the willingness of my municipality to accept these symbols if they cannot be protected in your city with the due honor and respect they deserve,” Úbeda said.
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I’d rather he take the lowlifes who tore it down.
They are erecting a statue of Jim Jones to take its place
And I want the Spanish bullion.
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Well, he was enslaved by the muzzards for 7/8 years.
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