What makes Columbus such a sacred cow? Why on Earth should I admire him as opposed to Bartolomé de Las Casas, who had a literal come to Jesus moment after witnessing atrocities being inflicted upon the natives and chose to spend the rest of his life trying to protect them?
I'd be fine with statues of Bartholew de las Casas , but the Leftist mobs wouldn't. They don't know or care about history.
For that matter, how about statues of the person who actually discovered North America, rather than of a man who conquered an island in the Caribbean and thought he'd found India?