El legado de Colón

Lea la siguiente cita sobre la función de los monumentos en la sociedad: "Statues are not just statues, and monuments are not just stone plinths and bodies cast in bronze. They instruct. They lift up the stories of those who are seen; dominate the stories of those who are unseen; and too often propagate menacingly incomplete accounts of our country's past. As the poet Adrienne Su writes of childhood picnics at Stone Mountain, the largest Confederate monument in the United States, "Nothing at Stone Mountain Park / echoed my ancestry, but it's normal for immigrants / not to see themselves in landmarks." Monuments might be seen only in the ephemeral moments of school field trips, but they remain marked in our collective memory with the pin and pencil points of a history-tracing compass." (Elizabeth Alexander — poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate — is president of The Andrew Mellon Foundation https://www.salon.com/2020/10/11/the-monuments-project-building-the-commemorative-landscape-21st-century-america-needs/).

Teniendo en cuenta los muchos monumentos a Colón (NYC y Barcelona, por ejemplo) y nuestro conocimiento acerca de sus acciones en el Caribe, ¿cuál es la función de estos monumentos? ¿Qué revelan sobre el presente?