Three local news stations picked it up Time Warner Cable News (TWC), WIBV, and WGRZ. Each station didn't mention the phrase on the staute. And none of the stations understood the context behind the graffiti. …show more content…
Like how Colón believed that the Earth was pear shaped instead of being round (during his time most people believed the Earth was round). Colón was also the father of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, he first enslaved the people he met when he first got to the Americas (the Taino people). Then after he and his cohorts had worked them and the rest of the local Caribbean population to death, he moved on to capturing people from Africa. The journals that Colón wrote (they are in Spain) describe in detail the vicious treatment that was inflicted on the people who were captured (acts like rape, and extreme violence). Niman ends Colóns story by stating that, "there is no place in any American city for a statue of this man, much less a holiday in his