Tear it Down!

Bill De Blasio (S-Nicaragua) is reviewing statues in NYC and the 100+ year old statue in Columbus Circle is in his cross hairs:

Bill de Blasio, the New York mayor, has said he may order the removal of the city's landmark statue of Christopher Columbus amid national soul-searching over the removal of Confederate-era monuments.

The statue, which is the centrepiece of the city's famed Columbus Circle, was commissioned in 1892 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus landing in the Americas.It has been suggested by local government officials in several US cities that monuments to Columbus should be taken down because of the explorer's brutal treatment of indigenous communities.

Word has it the Hebrews are coming after statues of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam because he was an anti-Semite. They also want to dig up Grant. Don't ask.

Of course Christopher Columbus was a lost sailor.

But let's point out something else.

We went to high school about half an hour north of De Blasio's cesspool. At Hendrick Hudson one was usually either Irish, Jewish, or Italian.

We had every Columbus Day off. He's kind of a big deal to the local eye-talian community. Don't believe me?

Good luck with that, Blas.