Protesters Tear Down Christopher Columbus Statue Outside Minnesota State Capitol (AFP image)
BOSTON: Statues of
Christopher Columbus
from Boston to Miami have been beheaded and vandalized as calls to eliminate sculptures commemorating colonizers and slavers sweep
America
on the back of anti-racism protests triggered by the death of George Floyd.
Italian explorer Columbus, long hailed by school books as the so-called discoverer of “The New World,” is considered by many to have actually spurred years of genocide against indigenous groups.
A statue of the navigator standing on a prominent plinth in main Boston was beheaded overnight, cops stated Wednesday.
Practically 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles