Erasing our history!-----Leftists: Melt Statue of Former CA Mayor for Planting American Flag

Leftists: Melt Statue of Former CA Mayor for Planting American Flag

"Thomas Fallon was a soldier in the Mexican-American War and a mayor of San Jose, California, but now left-wing activists are calling for “melting” the bronze statue erected in his honor because they believe he was a racist and a white supremacist. 

He planted an American flag in 1846 into the city’s soil to claim the land for the United States.
...Community members used their 1-minute allotted time to persuade city officials to get rid of the controversial 16-foot-tall statue, many using the same words to describe Fallon’s legacy: Colonialism. Imperialism. Racism. Injustice. White supremacy. Violence. Genocide.
Fallon was one of the “soldiers of John C. Fremont’s brigade that was involved in the war with Mexico” from 1846 to 1848, and he went on to serve one yearlong term as San Jose’s 10th mayor, said Albert Camarillo, a Stanford University American history professor and historian...

“Each time I see that, that’s what I see: It’s another example of colonization,” Yolanda Guerra, a teacher at San Jose High School who lives in the neighborhood where the statue stands, said...Read all.