OpinionMonument falls: Against the statues - and the whole system:
There is much to be said for overthrowing the monuments of colonialists and slave traders ...
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Statue Topplings Put Contested History in FocusMonuments fell in Boston, Richmond, Antwerp and Bristol, while the article warns that historical crimes could be forgotten.
- Protesters decapitated Columbus’s statue in Boston and toppled another Columbus monument into a lake in Richmond.
- In Washington, Nancy Pelosi seeks removal of eleven 19th-century Confederate politicians’ statues; Donald Trump opposes the proposal.
- The article places these iconoclasms within a long history, from Byzantium and the Reformation to the Eastern Bloc’s collapse.
- It advocates contextualizing or altering monuments, citing a Soviet tank replaced in Berlin in 1990 and painted pink.
Never!— Donald Trump, US President; reacting to calls to remove Confederate statues from public spaces
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