Timothy Birdnow

I guess Mayor Lightfoot realized things were getting out of control. That or she feared the Italian-American backlash.

Chicago Mayor Lightfoot says Christoper Columbus statues shouldn't be taken down

Lightfoot, a Democrat,spoke with the Chicago Tribuneabout the removal of Columbus statues and other controversial symbols like the Confederate flag, saying that they should be used as educational tools to school America's youth.

"I think that the way we educate our young people, in particular, about their history is to educate them about the full history,” she said.

Lightfoot added that she doesn't support changing the city's observance of the Columbus Day holiday by renaming it Indigenous People's Day, and wants to "not try to erase history, but to embrace it full-on.”

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