Already got something like that. MLK statue in Boston.
Posted on 09/19/2023 11:21:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
George Washington, the Father of our Country, may soon get evicted from the Big Apple.
The New York City Cultural Affairs Committee is set to hold a public hearing that could lead to the removal of statues and monuments honoring our nation’s first president, Christopher Columbus and Peter Stuyvesant.
Stuyvesant was an early settler of New York City and has a park and prominent high school named in his honor. He was also a slaveholder – and he was white.
There are multiple statues and monuments to Washington, including Washington Square Park and the George Washington Bridge. It’s unclear whether the park and bridge will be leveled or just simply renamed.
Columbus Circle, at the entrance of Central Park, has long been a source of controversy among the perpetually offended crowd. But the Italians are vowing to fight.
“Columbus was a migrant!’’ Angelo Vivolo, president of the Columbus Heritage Coalition, told the New York Post. “This woke group wants to cancel our culture.”
In 2021 New York City’s overwhelmingly Democrat city council voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from City Hall. Jefferson’s crime was also being white — and a slaveholder — and a man — and heterosexual.
“This is little more than an attempt by the radical left to rewrite our nation’s history,” Joann Ariola (R-Queens) told the newspaper. “These men all had an enormous impact on this country, and these statues commemorating their achievements have been in place for decades.
“The radical left has been trying to reframe our nation as one born from evil, and it is time we put our foot down and say enough is enough,” she said. “The Founding Fathers and the others who worked so hard to establish this great country should be celebrated, not eliminated from memory.”
The Cultural Affairs Committee will consider removing any statue “depict(ing) a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity.”
“I’m here for the fight. The Italian-American community will come out strongly against this move to ban Columbus, a symbol of Italian-American accomplishment. But it’s not just Columbus. You’re going against Washington, Jefferson. You’re going against the people who contributed greatly to America,” Vivolo said
These morons don’t deserve America. What they deserve is a hellhole like Zimbabwe.
They deserve a statue of a turd
I had the same reaction
The American Taliban erasing our history so they can replace it with godless Communism.
Can the USA remove Washington state as it has fallen to the communists?
Not perfect, but moved the needle in the right direction.
NYC (where I was born) is completely lost to civilization.
I left in the early 1980s, and refuse to set foot there since 2020.
Anywhere they can be made to suffer.
That seemed really strange to say that they could level the George Washington Bridge.
Does someone really want to tear down the George Washington Bridge to make a political statement against George Washington?
They only do this to upset people so tell them go ahead take them all down
I don’t have to (even) read the article——Let me guess “he’s a racist”.
The Left (that is, the Democrat/Communist Party) destroys most everything it touches. The only thing the Democrat/Communist Party leaders and their cult-followers hate more than America is Americans.
I left in 1989 right in the middle of the Dinkins era. Never looked back. It is a hell hole.
People who think like this ruin everything for everybody. They’re a scourge on this country.
That guy Washington. What did he ever do for the United States, anyway? Didn’t even have anything on Tik Tok or X.
And create a Reparations Task Force. So let me see. They’re going broke because of the influx of illegal aliens who demand lotsa free stuff and gt it and now they’re going to get taxpayers to pay blacks for the crime of slavery that the Democrats promulgated along with Jim Crow, the KKK, and segregation in the South. Welcome to Hell on Earth II.
What would Nikki Haley say?
Already got something like that. MLK statue in Boston.
Our communist masters continue on their unstoppable roll...
The collapse of the United States into a permanent tyranny matches any other collapse in global history...
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