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Keep the Columbus Monument Standing

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Doug Bradt
4 years ago

You can’t change history !!!!!!!

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Charlie Merulla
4 years ago

Walsh wants to move the Columbus statue to another location because the statue is deemed "offensive." I guess moving ithe statue somewhere else will not be offensive in the new location...total idiots!!!

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Please, please, please leave the monument standing as is. Why try to revise history.

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Robert Brown
4 years ago

Columbus' accomplishments far outweigh the supposed negative aspects of his career. Additionally, he like each of us, was a person of his time. His thinking, ideas and behavior were shaped by the norms of his culture and the time in which he lived. Taking his actions out of historical and cultural context is revisionism at it's worst.

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James Emmi
4 years ago

Keep the statue!!! The liberal lunatics cannot change history and know NOTHING about what went on at the time over 600 years ago!! Don't waste the money or effort on something this STUPID!!!!!

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Timothy Hourigan
4 years ago

Stop the political correctness garbage. This is getting old.

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Stop Italian Supremacists
4 years ago

Your organization is ridiculous. Wrong side of history. Wake up.

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Lawrence Cecchi
4 years ago

Removing the monument is not celebrating diversity. It is celebrating revisionist cancel culture

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Mary Malagisi Politis
4 years ago

Giving in to small group of dissenters is not right! Majority of Italian Americans worked veyhard to make a better living. Our rights count! Please listen to EWTN documentary it tells the truth not twisted facts that have been manipulated. Rsearchhstory.

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Connie D'Accurzio
4 years ago

The Syracuse Italian American community purchased this monument for the city, and it is part of its history. It is not right to remove the statue.

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David Warwick
4 years ago

Columbus is not the genocidal maniac that you history revisionists portray him as...

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Ronna J Louise
4 years ago

I see this statue as commemorating the early contributions of Italians to the formation of America. No man is perfect. Are the criticisms so demonic that it trumps Columbus' valuable actions? I think not.

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James McCusker
4 years ago

The National Christopher Columbus Association objects to the removal of this and all statues of this great navigator.

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Cynthia Kennedy
4 years ago

It is a proud symbol of my city. I hr

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Rosemary DiVirgilio
4 years ago

You should never take this statue down because my relatives saved pennies to put this up in 1934!!

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Joan Manning
4 years ago

This is a part of all Syracuse, New York and Americans heritage. You can’t change history

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Chandra Vásquez
5 years ago

Keep the Syracuse monument where it is! Say no to hate against Italian Americans! Columbus was a good man!

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Anthony DiBiase
5 years ago

Of course, viewed in todays world, Columbus could be seen negatively. In the 15th century, however, it was a different world. Trying to impose today's values to histories figures is a fool's game. Learn from history and try not to repeat the mistakes.

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Raymond Porzio
5 years ago

I don't care that much about Christopher Columbus but I do care about what the statue represents. The Italian Americans who came to this country and didn't complain about being poor or asked for handout, but worked hard and contributed to our culture and fought and died protecting the country.

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Mike Kurz
5 years ago

Most of the people who want this statue to remain don't care about the history of others nor were they taught the atrocities brought on by Christopher Columbus. Move it to a museum, preferably one that talks about the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and how Portugal was started by none other than *drum roll* Christopher Columbus!