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Re: Statue decolonization
« Reply #75 on: June 29, 2021, 12:06:39 am »
https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/2021/06/27/40-50-people-gather-custer-falls-again-rally/5357925001/

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No elected officials from the City of Monroe are believed to have attended Friday's 'Custer Falls Again' rally at St. Mary's Park, which drew a crowd of about 50 people who shrugged off steady rain showers to protest the General George Armstrong Custer monument that has sat in downtown Monroe for over a century.

The crowd gathered in the park located just yards away from the 111-year-old statue to listen to traditional Native American songs, eat Indigenous foods, and hear from speakers who came from across the State of Michigan to denounce the monument and the man it depicts. 

Hosted jointly by local activist group Good Trouble Monroe and the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party, the rally was held on the 145th anniversary of Custer's defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was just the latest in a series of similar events in the city since local activist Katybeth Davis started a Change.org petition last June calling for the statue's removal, arguing that it represents the glorification of a man who led a genocide against Native Americans.

The petition currently has over 14,000 signatures.

It doesn't take 14000 people to pull down the statue. 40-50 might even be enough.

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Davis said that while she extended an invitation to every member of city council, only councilman Andrew Felder notified her that he would be unable to attend Friday's rally due to a prior commitment.

"I'm not surprised at all," Davis said of the elected officials' decision not to attend the rally. "They don't want to have to look Native Americans in the eyes. They don't want to have to be confronted, or even have to deal with that."
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The speakers at Friday's rally were united in calling for the city to remove the statue, with Anishinaabek Caucus secretary and Pokagon Elder Julie Dye saying "We're here to tell the citizens and government leaders that if your heroes are murderers and military failures, your values are grounded in white supremacy."

And what should be done with those with such values? (Answer: the same as is done to their statues.)