{"id":327575,"date":"2017-09-25T00:55:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-on-colonial-monuments-from-an-unlikely-place\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T00:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:55:59","slug":"lessons-on-colonial-monuments-from-an-unlikely-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lessons-on-colonial-monuments-from-an-unlikely-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons on Colonial Monuments From an Unlikely Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_96078\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96078\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/3737526215_b6bc3da8d4_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/3737526215_b6bc3da8d4_b.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/3737526215_b6bc3da8d4_b-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/3737526215_b6bc3da8d4_b-768x568.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Marit &amp; Toomas Hinnosaar | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week, two incidents of vandalism targeted monuments of the Spanish colonial legacy in North America.\u00a0 On Tuesday, a statue of Christopher Columbus in New York\u2019s Central Park was discovered with red paint on its hands and the words \u201cHate will not be tolerated\u201d spraypainted on its base.\u00a0 The same day, residents and workers at the Old Mission Santa Barbara awoke to find that a statue of Jun\u00edpero Serra\u2014an eighteenth-century Spanish friar canonized by Pope Francis in 2015\u2014had been beheaded and covered in blood-red paint as well.\u00a0 These events join the numerous other recent controversies surrounding public monuments in the U.S., most notably those that emerged from Charlottesville, Virginia last month, when a young woman was killed and numerous people were injured while protesting white supremacists\u2019 attempts to paralyze the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The overnight fates of the Columbus and Serra statues extend these debates from the context of the American Civil War and white supremacy to another chapter of oppression on this continent: that of indigenous peoples.\u00a0 Despite what continues to be the celebratory tone of textbook teachings and the triumphal observation of Columbus Day, the atrocities committed by Columbus and other European \u2018explorers\u2019 since 1492 are well documented.\u00a0 In Serra\u2019s case, his status as a saint neglects the indigenous communities whose cultural legacies were effaced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/09\/22\/lessons-on-colonial-monuments-from-an-unlikely-place\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Marit &amp; Toomas Hinnosaar | CC BY 2.0 Last week, two incidents of vandalism targeted monuments of the Spanish colonial legacy in North America.\u00a0 On Tuesday, a statue of Christopher Columbus in New York\u2019s Central Park was discovered with red paint on its hands and the words \u201cHate will not be tolerated\u201d spraypainted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}