404- Return of Oñate's Foot

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

All across the country, protestors have been challenging old monuments, including the ones of Juan de Oñate in NM, which we've been following for a couple years

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.4	One, two, pull!
0:05.8	One, two, pull!
0:08.2	Cheers!
0:09.6	From Birmingham, Alabama to Washington, D.C.,
0:15.4	all across the country, old Confederate monuments are coming down.
0:19.6	Many monuments to Confederate soldiers and slaveholders are being taken down,
0:23.6	either by protesters or by local officials.
0:26.6	In Raleigh, North Carolina, June 10th demonstrators tore down two statues from a monument outside the Capitol building.
0:33.6	In Richmond, Virginia, protesters toppled statues of Confederate leaders William Carter Wickham and Jefferson Davis.
0:42.6	In Virginia, Governor Ralph Northam ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
0:50.6	Yes, that statue has been there for a long time,
0:54.6	but it was wrong then, and it is wrong now.
0:59.6	And it isn't just monuments to the Confederacy.
1:03.6	Over 20 statues of Christopher Columbus have come down across the country too.
1:07.6	In cities like Providence, Rhode Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and even Columbus, Ohio.
1:12.6	The Christopher Columbus statue is down.
1:15.6	It's the latest form of protests against racial injustice people across the country.
1:19.6	These monuments have been falling in the middle of historic protests against police brutality.
1:24.6	Sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis,
1:28.6	these demonstrations have spread to communities big and small across the country and around the world.
1:33.6	And as they've grown, the protests have become about much more than police violence.
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