I was surprised to find a huge statue of Columbus in the harbor (facing North America) in Barcelona, Spain. The locals I talked to didn’t seem to find it at all incongruous. I don’t see a sway to add any of my mediocre photographs.
Erasure in history is tricky business. Done without caution and perspective, we replicate the fascists.
Few people recognize Columbia as a reference to the explorer, so it gets a pass. However, Despite all the outrage over the Calhoun named house at Yale, there is not a peep coming from any quarter about Elihu Yale’s participation in the slave trade. I guess no one in that community wants a diploma from New Haven University
I was surprised to find a huge statue of Columbus in the harbor (facing North America) in Barcelona, Spain. The locals I talked to didn’t seem to find it at all incongruous. I don’t see a sway to add any of my mediocre photographs.
Erasure in history is tricky business. Done without caution and perspective, we replicate the fascists.
Few people recognize Columbia as a reference to the explorer, so it gets a pass. However, Despite all the outrage over the Calhoun named house at Yale, there is not a peep coming from any quarter about Elihu Yale’s participation in the slave trade. I guess no one in that community wants a diploma from New Haven University