While the statues of slave owners are being removed from Southern States, we need to focus on the statues of hate found in the Pacific Northwest. Within Seattle sits a statue of Vladimir Lenin, a communist dictator. Under his Marxist rule of Leninism, countless masses of innocent people were murdered for no other reason then opposing his government. Having such a statue of hate and intolerance within our cities should be unequivocally rejected and the statue of such a man should be torn down immediately to prevent the spread of his hateful ideology.