Statues of Christopher Columbus were being doused with red paint long before America decided (for a couple of weeks) that every Confederate statue and monument had to be taken down and hauled away overnight or covered with a tarp ASAP.
The momentum out of Charlottesville seemed to motivate people to revisit statues and memorials that had nothing to do with Robert E. Lee or the Confederacy. The nation’s longest standing monument to “genocidal terrorist” Christopher Columbus was smashed in Baltimore, and in Ohio, a statue of a Revolutionary War colonel was beheaded for reasons that mystified a lot of residents.
Who’s next?
Now if we can just get rid of all the statues of Junipero Serra.
— Andy (@atk825) August 31, 2017
BRING?DOWN?ALL?FALSE?IDOLS?TO?WHITE?SUPREMACY? RT @Edhat: Junipero Serra Statue Beheaded at Old Mission https://t.co/3l58NMaASX pic.twitter.com/gRN8uJ0oDc
— ser de izquierda,ser indígena,ser antiimperialista (@joeltena) September 11, 2017
Well, sometime this week, a statue of St. Junipero Serra was beheaded and doused with red paint at the Old Santa Barbara Mission in Santa Barbara, Calif. This seems to be the method the “woke” have chosen to communicate with the rest of us about their interminable grievances.
Junipero Serra statue beheaded, splashed with red paint in Central California https://t.co/ajiRHzjOKx
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 13, 2017
how progressive! i feel like we are living in the times of vlad the impaler pic.twitter.com/oFeQh8M7Ez
— DRITtheKID❌ (@DRITtheKID) September 13, 2017
Yes, and now this:https://t.co/Qg7pcEIllH
— alc (@alclubb1967) September 13, 2017
Oh yes, don’t forget about the monument for Francis Scott Key in Baltimore that was defaced sometime Wednesday and painted with the words, “Racist Anthem.” Someone must have read Shaun King’s piece on the “ugly” national anthem, which he wrote is “deeply rooted in violent white supremacy.”
"Racist Anthem": The century-old Francis Scott Key Memorial at Eutaw Place in Baltimore was defaced overnight. https://t.co/nWTa2thxX2 pic.twitter.com/5vPAqNyTeT
— Colin Campbell ☀️ (@cmcampbell6) September 13, 2017
"It's destroying property, that's the bottom line, and the people responsible will be held accountable," says @TJSmithMedia. https://t.co/fmBBz2d3Ri
— Kevin Rector ☀️ (@RectorSun) September 13, 2017
The Baltimore Sun reports:
Exactly 203 years after the Maryland attorney wrote the poem that would later become the national anthem, the city awoke to find the words “Racist Anthem” spray-painted on the Eutaw Place monument and red paint splashed on it.
City officials said they know of no way to prevent future vandalism, short of catching the person or people responsible. Police don’t have any suspects or surveillance footage of the incident.
https://twitter.com/missamerica2017/status/908068063479771136
The city probably thought they’d solved the problem after they hauled away four Confederate statues in the dead of night. Wrong!
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/908008045510348800
This is sickening, disgusting, and shameful. https://t.co/DBz0fUJeLS
— Time to Opine (@TimetoOpine) September 13, 2017
Where we're heading: https://t.co/hUS0UCRpM5
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) September 13, 2017
'A towering rage, in search of an offense.' More fools. https://t.co/mCFbzk2C1M
— Angel (@Romani_Angel21) September 13, 2017
Despicable and woefully ignorant. They're not going to stop. https://t.co/HPCoX8AEvS
— Bubb Rubb Express (@WhistlesGoWoo) September 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/iptuttle/status/907999623163338759
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/908008777823158272
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Meet the alt-left: Vandals smash Christopher Columbus monument in name of racial, economic justice https://t.co/c3gAryMe0z
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 21, 2017
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