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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What history of our is Columbus a part of?  The Dominican Republic's yes but ours?; Those statues were built to symbolically state that italian-Americans are part of the mainstream there's no historical component to them.

But at least I understand why those were erected.  I have no idea why the Onate statutes were erected in the 90's.  Did they not look at the history before they commissioned them?  He was horrible.  So horrible that the King of Spain actually convicted him of crimes against humanity over 300 years before that became a concept.  How bad must he have been for a 17th century monarch to be aghast at his actions?

Seems to me that none of these statues are about history.  They're all about politics.  I wish our statues were actually about history.[/quote]
But one page ago I posted a link to a thread that shared statues that do reflect history, though they are around the world and not just the US (and of course the mermaid statue in Denmark itself doesn’t reflect history).[/quote]

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