Matt Conti at NorthEndWaterfront.com forwarded this photo of the defacement of the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Park some time last night.
By noon today, the paint and message were completely gone after a thorough power washing by a city crew.
Over the years, the statue has been marked up by people with a point to make - once, the statue was even decapitated.
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DPW Lives Matter
By BostonDog
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 3:10pm
They do good work in cleaning up defacements like this.
Black Lives Matter graffiti is the new Not Art.
...vandalism.
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 6:04pm
...vandalism.
Sloganeering
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 3:24pm
Why does everything always have to be reduced to slogans? "Boston Strong", "Black Lives Matter".
Slogans are lazy and basically meaningless.
Like "Taxation Without
By Rob Not Verified
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:03pm
Like "Taxation Without Representation." What the hell did that ever mean or prove, amirite?
It used to mean something.
By Tacks O'Chusetts
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 9:56pm
Nowadays, nobody gives a shit.
Lazy and meaningless?!
By whyaduck
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:17pm
And how would you categorize the slogan: "I am a man", perchance?
Yeah, kind of agree. There
By baustin
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 5:01pm
Yeah, kind of agree. There are some great slogans, but a lot of activist statements these days are just dumbed down straw men arguments. Of course black lives matter. These kinds of stunts are an embarrassment to people to actually spend their time, energy, and intelligence to work on addressing social injustice.
It's because Gen Y consider
By gotdatwmd
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 5:28pm
It's because Gen Y consider themselves brave for making a "statement" on the internet from behind a computer or cell phone. Any outdoors event is just a party for self congratulation on the ability to remember a catchphrase. But don't dare say this to them, because that's fascism/bigotry or the most hateful word they know: "conservative."
So you're saying that
By aging cynic
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 7:48am
parasites who don't work, live off the rest of us and have the intellect of vegetables are lazy and meaningless? Yeah, I'm down with that.
Yep, this'll really win
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 3:50pm
Yep, this'll really win people over. So these are the new Occupy clowns?
Probably the same
By anon²
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:05pm
white folk who sat in the middle of traffic on 93 a few months back, setting back the cause quite a bit.
[img]https://perikinder.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/att...
We'll never forget that day
By Michael
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:31pm
It's the first and only time that white people have caused traffic on 93.
I don't condone vandalism yet
By whyaduck
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:22pm
Columbus was a tyrant (as the Governor of the Indies). So horrid and cruel that Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had him replaced, and there should be no park, nor statue, nor holiday in his honor, in my opinion.
Why do you hate history?
By Nick L
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 5:04pm
Is it because you hate America, too? I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS
Agreed.
By violetkris
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 11:18am
Columbus was a horrible person with no respect for other human beings. That statue should be defaced on a daily basis or just taken down.
Decapitated twice.
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 3:56pm
Head found once, resculptee once, I believe
christopher columbus statues should be removed
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:06pm
it's not a respectable part of our past.
but columbus should be condemned through an official act, preferably demanded by a voting proposition with overwhelming public support. that's so much more meaningful than vandalism, and it's also lawful.
this kind of vandalism is mostly illiterates, idiots, and druggies. those people make themselves hard to respect.
I sympathize, but do we also get rid of all these things?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:22pm
Christopher Columbus Park (where the statue is)
Columbus Avenue
Columbia Road
Columbia Point
the District of Columbia
the Columbia River
Columbia University
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Indiana
Columbus, Georgia
Colombia, the country
British Columbia
The gap between renaming a
By Rob Not Verified
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:25pm
The gap between renaming a city street and renaming an entire country is fairly wide....
To be fair
By BostonDog
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:27pm
Many of the mouth foamers on TV and Radio advocate getting rid of DC on a daily basis.
Constants and variables people constants and variables......
By WOULD YOU KINDLY
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 4:49pm
Elizabeth and Booker can pull it off with help from the Lutece twins and a tragic quantum superimposition.
Yes
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:46pm
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Doesn't this make it clear
By anon
Tue, 06/30/2015 - 10:26pm
Doesn't this make it clear that the 54th monument desecration was done by the same folks?
If BlackLivesMatters is so
By Boston_Bloke
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 12:09am
If BlackLivesMatters is so offended by Christopher Columbus they can ask the nation of Colombia to change its name. But that won't happen. Because that would force White Guilt liberals to face "people of color" in Latin America who don't agree with their PC agenda
you
By Scumquistador
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 12:25am
are pretty dumb
If you're going to make a
By Refugee
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 8:47am
If you're going to make a statement like this, do it properly. Splash the statue and scrawl your message with real human blood instead of paint.
Columbus?
By anon
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 9:22am
Maybe I'm being clueless I don't really get this. Is there some direct connection between Columbus and black lives?
Well...
By Michael Kerpan
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 9:48am
Columbus introduced race-based slavery into the New World....
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