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Mayor Ras Baraka Issues A Statement To The Public About White Supremacy Within The Tribal Government Response  Newark, NJ (Press Release) -        “ In keeping with the movement to remove symbols of oppression and white supremacy, we have decided to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus from Washington Park,” Mayor Ras J. Baraka said. “We took it down with City work crews in a safe and orderly manner, to avoid the potential danger of people taking it upon themselves to topple it.” Mayor Baraka said the statue will be kept in storage until the City decides what to do with it. The statue was dedicated on Oct. 12, 1997, as gift to the City from the Italian-American community. “The removal of this statue should not be perceived as an insult to the Italian-American community,” Mayor Baraka said. “It is a statement against the barbarism, enslavement, and oppression that this explorer represents. ”

Christopher Columbus 1493 - Creative Commons  Washington, DC Press Release -   The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country, does not acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a hero.  To Indigenous people’s, he was the opposite, especially after the death of George Floyd, murdered / lynched by a White police officer: Out of timbers for the Santa Maria,...Columbus built a fort on Hispaniola, the first European military base in the Western Hemisphere...He took...Indian prisoners and put them abroad his two remaining ships...He got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men wanted. Two were run through with swords and bled to death. Then the Nina and the Pinta set sail....When the weather turned cold, the Indian prisoners began to die. In the year 1495, they went on a great slave raid, rounded up fifteen hundred Arawak m...