{"id":40854,"date":"2018-04-28T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=40854"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T09:40:47","slug":"quotation-465-explaining-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=40854","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Columbus."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rick Chavolla, the board chairman of the American Indian Community House in Manhattan, who had called for the Columbus statue\u2019s removal, said that it was wrong to cast the dispute as one pitting Native Americans against Italian-Americans. \u201cIt\u2019s between what\u2019s morally right and what\u2019s morally wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cColumbus is just morally wrong. He sold underage girls into sexual slavery. He forced people into labor until they died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called the mayor\u2019s proposal [not to <a title=\"Kolumbus f\u00e4llt vom Sockel.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=36078\">remove<\/a> the statue] unimaginative. \u201cHe\u2019s saying they\u2019re going to put up a plaque. Really? There\u2019s plaques all over the city and they don\u2019t draw any attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 <a title=\"NYT: No travelling\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/12\/nyregion\/no-traveling-for-columbus-statue-mayor-de-blasio-decides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase;\">See also:<\/span><\/strong> <a title=\"J. Marion Sims aus Central Park verbannt.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=40779\"><code>01<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"CUP fordert Schleifung von Kolumbusstatue.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=31801\"><code>02<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"USA: Monumente m\u00fcssen weichen.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=35960\"><code>03<\/code><\/a> <a title=\"As statues fall, a new history is remembered.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=57923\"><code>04<\/code><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Chavolla, the board chairman of the American Indian Community House in Manhattan, who had called for the Columbus statue\u2019s removal, said that it was wrong to cast the dispute as one pitting Native Americans against Italian-Americans. \u201cIt\u2019s between what\u2019s morally right and what\u2019s morally wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cColumbus is just morally wrong. He sold [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","issue-geschichtsaufarbeitung","issue-quotation","location-usa","language-english","medium-nyt","topic-discriminaziun","topic-feminae","topic-geschichte","topic-politik","topic-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40854"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73054,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40854\/revisions\/73054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}