“I invite the entire community to join us in an inclusive discussion that will allow us to re-envision how we project ourselves to the world and create a symbolic landscape that more closely resembles our shared values and aspirations for our future,” said Ginther.

I don't share values with people who wanted the original statue removed.

can the new statue be one where Columbus was stepping on some Indians and stabbing one in the head? I would be so proud. We should be proud of European conquest. Every other race on every other continent would have done the exact same thing, we were just the best at it.

A few years some chugs (of which there are no reservations in Ohio so all out of state) showed up demanding Columbus to be renamed. MFIC Coleman (leader of Mayor Coleman's Plantation at the time) told the fucks to pound sand after showing them what the costs of doing that would be.

“Today, we take the next step in rewriting our narrative,” stated Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther. “We take responsibility to tell the truth about colonialism and racism, and to tell the stories of the people who have been overlooked and erased from the telling of our history.”

oh no