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Down goes Isabella!

https://colombiareports.com/colombia-removes-statues-of-columbus-and-spanish-queen-after-attacks/

Colombia’s culture ministry removed statues of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus and Spain’s late Queen Isabella amid fears they would be tumbled.

Government workers removed the statues from their pedestals in the capital Bogota on Friday after native Colombian protesters tried to tumble them on Wednesday.

The attempts triggered tensions with a fringe white supremacist group that subsequently tried to attack the protesters of the Misak people from southwest Colombia.
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The native Colombians celebrated the decision on Saturday by victoriously climbing the empty pedestals of the late Italian explorer and his Spanish financial patron.

The Misak people have been tumbling statues associated with the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the extermination of indigenous people since anti-government protests began in late April.

The statues of Spanish conquistadors have long been deeply offensive to many native Colombians but weren’t targeted by the native Colombians until this year.

The tumbling of the statues triggered mixed reactions as late conquistador Sebastian De Belalcazar is both the founder of cities like Cali and Popayan and one of the most notorious leaders of the 16-century holocaust of native Colombians.

In a statement, the Misak said Saturday that they would continue to assume their “ancestral responsibility to clean those  clean colonial wounds and seek the healing of all colonial wounds.”

OK, but if we can take down statues of Columbus, why are we still calling the country "Colombia" after Columbus? We need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/name-decolonization/

Some among Colombia’s white majority continue to consider Columbus and even controversial characters like Belalcazar as part of their cultural identity.

These are the only ones who should be called Colombians (and hence Western occupiers). The rest should choose a new name.

Before the Western colonialists came along, local statues looked like this:



There is more beauty in just this one piece than in everything from the Renaissance combined! (In fact it reminds me of: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51TD-oiwjuL.png )

And yet the inferior were allowed to come over and build their Homo Hubris eyesore **** all over the place:







etc. etc.