In the summer of 2020, amid protests and unrest across America, Christopher Columbus statues were toppled, vandalized, removed under the cover of darkness, and placed into municipal storage. As mayors and governors, you promised to return the statues. Their removal, we were told, was only a temporary measure—to “protect them.”
Now, years later, countless monuments remain hidden away in warehouses, confined in fenced lots, and relegated to government facilities—out of public view and beyond the reach of the very community that helped create them.
