Why the City Shouldn’t Return the Columbus Statue, Not Even in Fragments

9/13/20

By Keesha Ha, BaltimoreBrew

A brick was symbolically hurled through the window of Black Baltimore on an October day in 1984.

That was when a Christopher Columbus statue was erected on the eastern end of the Inner Harbor waterfront.

Invited to dedicate it, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gave a speech extolling the Genoese navigator’s “vision” and his own bid for four more years as president.

Now, in September 2020, the perpetrators have returned to retrieve said brick.

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