Two monuments of the famous Italian explorer and colonizer Christopher Columbus got destroyed by protesters in Massachusetts and Virginia.
As the demonstrations against racial injustice have begun taking place across the States, protesters in Boston, Massachusetts, have targeted the Christopher Columbus statue located in the North End neighborhood.
According to the reports, the statue was beheaded overnight whereas the officials discovered the missing pieces nearby.
Meanwhile, on the same night, Virginia protesters have targeted the statue of the explorer located in Byrd Park in Richmond.
As seen in the photos taken during the attack on the Christopher Columbus statue, protesters tied a rope around the neck area before pulling the monument from its stand.
Later, the protesters draped the statue in the American flag and set it on fire, whereas they spray-painted ‘Columbus Represents Genocide’ on the stand where the monument was placed on.
Once they were done with the monument, the protesters hurled it into the lake.
“We have to start where it all began. We have to start with the people who stood first on this land,” Chelsea Higgs-Wise, one of the activists behind the protest, said in her speech.
In the wake of nationwide protests against racial inequality, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has called for the statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate commander, to be removed from the Monument Avenue in Richmond.
“In Virginia, we no longer preach a false version of history. One that pretends the Civil War was about state rights and not the evils of slavery. No one believes that any longer,” the governor said.
“And in 2020, we can no longer honor a system that was based on the buying and selling of enslaved people.”
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