Protester Attacks 225-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Monument with Sledgehammer
Aug 22, 2017 21:01:30 #
Protester Attacks 225-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Monument with Sledgehammer
VIDEO: Protester Attacks 225-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Monument with Sledgehammer
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by AWR Hawkins21 Aug 2017158
A video posted to YouTube shows a protester taking a sledgehammer to Baltimore’s 225-year-old Christopher Columbus statue the week after the city removed Confederate statues under the cover of night.
The Baltimore Brew reported on the attack, saying it left the monument “severely vandalized.”
The video shows an individual approach the monument while wearing a hoodie. The individual holds up a sign which says, “The Future is Racial and Economic Justice.” The individual then tapes the sign to the monument, grabs a sledgehammer, and beats a hole in the monument while a faceless onlooker holds a sign that says, “R****m Tear it Down.”
A narrator speaks throughout the video. His opening words are:
Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, s***ery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas. That Columbian wave of destruction continues on the backs of Indigenous, African-American and brown people.
R****t monuments to s***e owners and murderers have always bothered me. Baltimore’s poverty is concentrated in African-American households, and these statues are just an extra slap in the face. They were built in the 20th century in response to a movement for African Americans’ human dignity. What kind of a culture goes to such lengths to build such h**e-filled monuments? What kind of a culture clings to those monuments in 2017?
Baltimore’s monument to Columbus is reportedly the oldest in the nation.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
VIDEO: Protester Attacks 225-Year-Old Christopher Columbus Monument with Sledgehammer
YouTube
by AWR Hawkins21 Aug 2017158
A video posted to YouTube shows a protester taking a sledgehammer to Baltimore’s 225-year-old Christopher Columbus statue the week after the city removed Confederate statues under the cover of night.
The Baltimore Brew reported on the attack, saying it left the monument “severely vandalized.”
The video shows an individual approach the monument while wearing a hoodie. The individual holds up a sign which says, “The Future is Racial and Economic Justice.” The individual then tapes the sign to the monument, grabs a sledgehammer, and beats a hole in the monument while a faceless onlooker holds a sign that says, “R****m Tear it Down.”
A narrator speaks throughout the video. His opening words are:
Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, s***ery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas. That Columbian wave of destruction continues on the backs of Indigenous, African-American and brown people.
R****t monuments to s***e owners and murderers have always bothered me. Baltimore’s poverty is concentrated in African-American households, and these statues are just an extra slap in the face. They were built in the 20th century in response to a movement for African Americans’ human dignity. What kind of a culture goes to such lengths to build such h**e-filled monuments? What kind of a culture clings to those monuments in 2017?
Baltimore’s monument to Columbus is reportedly the oldest in the nation.
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
Aug 23, 2017 08:38:35 #
These morons make me sick! They attack inanimate statues while allowing living and breathing fools to control them. The dems came up with this African-American label and the b****s felt important. Well maybe they need to wake up. That title they so love is condescending and demeaning. It lets them know that they aren't quite American or worth as much. Educated and thinking black people know it is an insult and they resent it. Wake up. The left sees you as inferior with that hyphenated handle. Sorry but you are an American unless you were born in Africa....like your boy OBammy.
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