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

[fujiyamasan]

18. Yes, and the confederates were traitors

They literally seceded from the union because they wanted the right to keep people of one race under bondage.

Columbus was a terrible person, and ideally he wouldn’t be honored, but his misdeeds were also before the country was formed. For better or worse, our nation’s capital is named after him. Yes, it’s a silly myth that he “discovered” America, but it is what it is.

When it comes to picking your battles, this one isn’t worth it. People should be educated about who Columbus really was and what he represented, but I’m not interested in renaming places and things named after him, Washington, or other presidents.

Confederate generals on the other hand? Fuck ‘em.