As one with Italo-American roots and a long time independent democratic socialist , Christopher Columbus I salute you !

The irrational anger directed at this classic Christopher Columbus statue - vandalized in Providence, moved to more Italo-American friendly Johnston - dramatizes what British philosopher Bertrand Russell called frightful " IGNORANCE IN ACTION " Young " illiberal liberal "nitwits attached to the WOKE WARRIOR Democratic Party think that they can make a difference for a more just world by focusing their vandalizing wrath on lifeless statues and monuments of THE PAST. Would they consider showing the same disrespect for Gilded Age Robber Barron statues if they were on public display on Newport's world famous Bellevue Ave . ? A righteous wrath group , gathering menacingly around a statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt ? What exploits and oppresses ALL common people today is called GLOBAL CAPITALISM & AMERICAN IMPERIALISM . Christopher Columbus has nothing to do with this evil. Christopher Columbus was a great and courageous Italian navigator who opened up half the world to more advanced Western Civilization . You can only judge Columbus morally in the SPIRIT OF HIS TIME. The same would apply to Julius Caesar who directly massacred a whole people , the Helvetians , in Gaul . First Year Latin students , no doubt , have fond memories of Caesar's exploits in Gaul. Yet Great Caesar too was a force for the advancement of human civilization. As was the Napoleon after the Great French Revolution of 1789. Almost robot like these young nitwits get their marching orders from elitist WOKE WARRIOR , Ivy League educated snobs who are actually contemptuous of flesh and blood OPPRESSED people living today. Vicious IDENTITY POLITICS and Critical Race Theory, vilifying ALL whites as in on some WHITE SUPREMACY conspiracy, is oddly enough mostly the inspiration of secular ZIONIST Jews who never apply CRT to APARTHEID Israel. This nonsense has nothing in common with classic Marxism which focuses on the CLASS STRUGGLE issues of people of all races, religions, and ethnic groups. The most fawned upon by the WOKES group, the so-called LGBTQ+ " community ", fits in perfectly with the ALL-AMERICAN ,petty-bourgeois " Culture of Narcissism ". With few exceptions they make themselves alien to working class CHRISTIAN Americans. As one with Italo-American roots and as longtime independent democratic socialist , Christopher Columbus I salute you !