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It used to be woke to celebrate Columbus Day

By Madeline Fry Schultz

Published October 14, 2019 4:49pm ET

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It used to be woke to celebrate Columbus Day — Red paint covers a statue of Christopher Columbus on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Providence, R.I., after it was vandalized on the day named to honor him as one of the first Europeans to reach the New World. | (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)

There are many ways to celebrate Columbus Day, depending on how you feel about the once-beloved explorer.

At least one angry protester in San Francisco defaced a statue of Christopher Columbus ahead of an Italian heritage parade this weekend. After splattering red paint all over the monument, the vandal wrote, “Destroy all monuments of genocide” and “Kill all colonizers.”

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