For years now, visitors to Philadelphia’s Spruce Street Harbor Park have been able to see a monument to Christopher Columbus. But it is time to end it, whether by removing the monument or by rededicated – because today we know that Christopher Columbus was NOT the kind of person that a monument should be dedicated to.
In my latest YouTube video, I go into great detail about why Christopher Columbus does not deserve any of the praise t hat the text at the base of the monument heaps on to him – and does not deserve to have a monument dedicated to him at all. I also explore a few things that can be done about the monument now that it is there.
