Councilmember Squilla says the city's decision to put Indigenous Peoples Day on Columbus Day only created hard feelings on both sides.
, the statue remains, as does the plywood box hiding it from public view.
Among those leading the charge to preserve the statue is Philadelphia Councilmember Mark Squilla, who requested the box painted with the colors of the Italian flag in time for Sunday's Italian-American Heritage Day festivities. "To try to pit people against each other by taking a holiday away from one group, and say you know, we don't like the name you gave that holiday so we're going to give that holiday to another group of people because we don't think that person should be celebrated. I mean it just doesn't make sense. "
Action News spoke with people at Monday's Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at Penn Treaty Park, some of whom say celebrating Columbus is misguided at best."A lot of times that patriotism was built on genocide," said Marcus Frejo, who is a member of the Pawnee and Seminole nations.in the midst of the George Floyd protests that erupted it in cities across the country, including Philadelphia.
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