July 2020 \ Diaspora News \ MAHATMA GANDHI STATUES IN USA
WHITE HOUSE OUTRAGED BY DEFACEMENT

US President Donald Trump’s spokesperson ...

By Arul Louis

The protesters and some of the politicians supporting them have called for removing the statues and monuments to the Father of the Nation, George Washington and other founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson, who had owned slaves, and Christopher Columbus, who led Europeans to an already inhabited continent.

A statue of Columbus was toppled and beheaded in Camden in New Jersey on June 18. The protests against police brutality, some of which have been violent, were set off by the extra-judicial killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man by a policeman in Minneapolis on May 25.




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