Mayor Eric Adams moves to have 2 Christopher Columbus statues landmarked. Here's the response from some mayoral candidat

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8. A blatantly political effort to win over Italian-American voters.

It's not clear where Columbus was born. What's certain is that he was a mercenary for the newly created Spanish empire. He did what he was paid to do - established Spanish conquest of new territories, kicked off the transatlantic slave trade, committed genocide in the name of Spain and brought fatal diseases to the New World.

All in all, not somebody I admire.