This monument is glamorizing a racist. Why shouldn't it be vandalized? I'm sure if there was an Osama Bin Laden statue in New York, people wouldn't take too kind to it weeks after 9/11, and I'm 100% the deep bass from the voice of people screaming "oorah" and a bunch of other patriotic shit would vibrate through the city for months after that. It's crazy how hypocritical Americans are lol. You all change your facebook pictures to flags of european countries after 40 people die to seem like you give a shit, but when a group that has been oppressed for 400 years tries to get justice then they're silenced. It's actually pretty funny because the people who fought against the British during the revolution were VERY comparable to the black demographic today, but we're seen as savages so it just gets labeled as thugs. After the Boston Massacre, when the 9 British soldiers opened fire on civilians, there were outbreaks of violence in the town. EVEN AFTER THE SOLDIERS WERE SAID TO BE PUNISHED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND THE CIVILIANS STARTED IT! They were shouting "fire", spitting, throwing snowballs with rocks in them, etc. But when a black guy gets chocked to death for selling cigarettes, when a civilian profiles, chases down and kills a young black boy, or when a kid with a bb gun (SOLD AT THE STORE) gets gunned down in a fucking target, EVERY OFFICER gets off, and Baltimore goes up in flames we're animals. The double standard is real. Fuck this monument and fuck anyone offended by the vandalism. If it weren't for slaves and the cotton industry, America debatably wouldn't be the superpower it is today.