As Confederate Statues Stand Tall

In Michael Nimans article "As Confederate Flags Fall, Colubus Statues Stand Tall", Niman talks about the racist legacy of Christopher Columbus and how illiterate Americans are on the subject. He begins his article talking about the places all over the country removing the confederate flag. For example he talks about how walmart removed the flag from their stores. He then shifts to focusing on a Columbus statue in Buffalo that was vandalized during Columbus day weekend, the statue had the phrases rape, slaver, genocide, and the latin phrase "pecca vestra, exponunter" (your sins are exposed) painted on it.

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

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