No one is claiming the Spanish were nice to the Native Americans or
that their intentoins in the New World were anything other than
plunder and beating other European nations to new resources and
territory. That could be said about most of the groups that came
here centuries ago.

But it happened and it is a part of history. To deny it is just the
first step in putting so many other things down the Memory Hole
just because we don't like them. This will only ensure that such
things happen again, because future generations won't know what
took place in the past to learn from.

Personally I could not care less about this statue or what it means.
But I do care that history is represented accurately and truthfully.