SYRACUSE, N.Y. – As America recognizes Columbus Day — it doesn’t come without controversy. Communities across the country have changed the name of the day to National Indigenous Peoples Day, and some even removed statues of the man history tells us discovered America.
In Syracuse, Mayor Ben Walsh announced plans to have its Christopher Columbus statue relocated — a decision that was met with a lot of blowback.
“The mayor made a poor decision to want to take it down. He’s stuck by that. Why? I don’t know,” Nicholas Pirro said…