My children are proud of their Italian heritage on the paternal side. Their great grandparents immigrated from Compo Bosso ,Italy to Syracuse. Please don’t allow their contribution and history/ heritage to be erased!
L
Lisa Centore Goodsell
5 years ago
Please do not remove the statue, that is our history! Add to it but do not remove it, please!
T
Tom
5 years ago
All for the statue staying along with the American history of our immigrants
P
Paul Lanni
5 years ago
Stop the nonsense by sophomoric politicians!
R
Robert Hayward
5 years ago
Needs to stay.Enough with the cancel culture!
T
Tony DelVecchio
5 years ago
Keep your hands off the statue! What gives you the right to pick and choose what history to erase if any at all?
M
Mary Minafri-Girolamo
5 years ago
Do not disrespect Italians
A
Ann Keenan
5 years ago
That is history! It means a lot to a lot of people!
S
Scott Bragger
5 years ago
You can't change history, leave the monument
K
Kathleen Dee Smith
5 years ago
In Christopher Columbus Wikipedia never mentions Slavery to Africa: Wikipedia only mentions: In 1479 or 1480, his son Diego Columbus was born. Between 1482 and 1485, Columbus traded along the coasts of West Africa, reaching the Portuguese trading post of Elmina at the Guinea coast (in present-day Ghana).[21] Before 1484, Columbus returned to Porto Santo to find that his wife had died.[22] He returned to Portugal to settle her estate and take his son Diego with him.[23] He left Portugal for Castile in 1485, where he found a mistress in 1487, a 20-year-old orphan named Beatriz Enríquez de Arana.[24] It is likely that Beatriz met Columbus when he was in Córdoba, a gathering site of many Genoese merchants and where the court of the Catholic Monarchs was located at intervals. Beatriz, unmarried at the time, gave birth to Columbus's natural son Fernando Columbus in July 1488, named for the monarch of Aragon. Columbus recognized the boy as his offspring. Columbus entrusted his older, legitimate son Diego to take care of Beatriz and pay the pension set aside for her following his death, but Diego was negligent in his duties.[25]
T
Theresa Dutton
5 years ago
If you take down Columbus then we also need to erase any black history.
V
Victoria Fox
5 years ago
Please keep the monument. History should not be erased.
L
Lori Gregory
5 years ago
Keep our History. Are you a leader Ben Walsh or an ignorant follower. Shame on You !!!
J
John J Sposato
5 years ago
Leave it exactly the way it is
M
Marie Vallar Rauch
5 years ago
Leave the monument alone, quit giving in to these radical groups. If they don’t like the history then let them go elsewhere to live!
A
Anonymous
5 years ago
It is part of our history and Syracuse’s history...beyond ridiculous that we are even considering taking it down. You can’t change history! It is how we got to today!
M
Matthew Derbyshire
5 years ago
Christopher Columbus is not just an Italian hero he is the godfather and midwife of modern civilization and belongs to every body.
R
ronald dunn
5 years ago
To make room for George Floyd statue? If it offends someone they can move, time to stop the madness.
M
Michael Affinito
5 years ago
Let’s keep some history in this city
J
John Romano
5 years ago
As an Italian American this statue should remain in place !
My children are proud of their Italian heritage on the paternal side. Their great grandparents immigrated from Compo Bosso ,Italy to Syracuse. Please don’t allow their contribution and history/ heritage to be erased!
Please do not remove the statue, that is our history! Add to it but do not remove it, please!
All for the statue staying along with the American history of our immigrants
Stop the nonsense by sophomoric politicians!
Needs to stay.Enough with the cancel culture!
Keep your hands off the statue! What gives you the right to pick and choose what history to erase if any at all?
Do not disrespect Italians
That is history! It means a lot to a lot of people!
You can't change history, leave the monument
In Christopher Columbus Wikipedia never mentions Slavery to Africa: Wikipedia only mentions: In 1479 or 1480, his son Diego Columbus was born. Between 1482 and 1485, Columbus traded along the coasts of West Africa, reaching the Portuguese trading post of Elmina at the Guinea coast (in present-day Ghana).[21] Before 1484, Columbus returned to Porto Santo to find that his wife had died.[22] He returned to Portugal to settle her estate and take his son Diego with him.[23] He left Portugal for Castile in 1485, where he found a mistress in 1487, a 20-year-old orphan named Beatriz Enríquez de Arana.[24] It is likely that Beatriz met Columbus when he was in Córdoba, a gathering site of many Genoese merchants and where the court of the Catholic Monarchs was located at intervals. Beatriz, unmarried at the time, gave birth to Columbus's natural son Fernando Columbus in July 1488, named for the monarch of Aragon. Columbus recognized the boy as his offspring. Columbus entrusted his older, legitimate son Diego to take care of Beatriz and pay the pension set aside for her following his death, but Diego was negligent in his duties.[25]
If you take down Columbus then we also need to erase any black history.
Please keep the monument. History should not be erased.
Keep our History. Are you a leader Ben Walsh or an ignorant follower. Shame on You !!!
Leave it exactly the way it is
Leave the monument alone, quit giving in to these radical groups. If they don’t like the history then let them go elsewhere to live!
It is part of our history and Syracuse’s history...beyond ridiculous that we are even considering taking it down. You can’t change history! It is how we got to today!
Christopher Columbus is not just an Italian hero he is the godfather and midwife of modern civilization and belongs to every body.
To make room for George Floyd statue? If it offends someone they can move, time to stop the madness.
Let’s keep some history in this city
As an Italian American this statue should remain in place !