Column: Why isn’t “Owens” part of the renaming Columbus conversation?

I think it’s awesome that when many of us think of Columbus, the first thing that comes to our minds is NOT the total clod of an explorer who subjugated and murdered millions through a mix of imperialism and smallpox, but is instead a wonderful college town, state capital and center of industry that holds a warm place in our hearts. In some ways we’re appropriating the name for the better. But in many more real ways, we’re perpetuating the name, once again, of a clod of an explorer who subjugated and murdered millions through a mix of imperialism and smallpox.