Irish Examiner View: Statue to former slave Douglass?

Christopher Columbus Monument in Galway

PEOPLE Before Profit wants local authorities here to remove monuments which the party claims glorify slavery and racism. It wants a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway to be taken down and is also seeking the removal of a plaque in Tuam, honouring Major Richard (Dick) Dowling, who served with the Confederate army in the US.

That would represent a more benign protest than destroying or toppling such monuments. Last week in Britain, protesters pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and Belgian officials did the same to King Leopold II.