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Petition Seeks New Name for Rikers Island Over Historic Ties to Slavery
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| 7/20/15
| Eddie Small
Posted on 07/29/2015 9:46:13 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
RIKERS ISLAND The head of the Harlem Historical Society wants Rikers Island renamed based on the namesake family's connection to slavery.
The embattled jail complex, which has been beset with scandal over poor treatment of inmates and calls to shut it down, gets its name from the family of Abraham Rycken, a Dutch immigrant who settled in New York in the 1600s, according to the New York Historical Society.
Jacob Morris, director of the Harlem Historical Society, recently started a petition to rename the embattled jail complex due to family member Richard Riker's history of helping send blacks into slavery during the 19th century.
Riker presided over the main criminal court in New York City, the Court of Special Sessions, in the early 1800s, and he used his authority in this position to send blacks to slavery as part of what abolitionists called the Kidnapping Club, according to historian Eric Foner.
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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bronx; pcmadness; revisionism
The "moral equivalent" of the Confederate flag controversy up in daBronx. Maybe I should start a petition demanding that the name of nearby Homossassa, FL be changed to Heterossassa. Why not remove every Ford built vehicle off the roads and crush them, because Henry Ford was a blatant anti-Semite? Mercedes Benz, at one time powered the nazi war machine, probably built some of the locomotives that transported Jews to the concentration camps, yet not only are Mercedes sold in Israel oftentimes as taxis and police cars, the IDF have been using Mercedes trucks for years. It's history! Learn from it, don't bury it, or the horrors of the past will inevitably be repeated.
To: Impala64ssa
Like renaming will change anything.
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posted on
07/29/2015 9:47:54 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Blue lives matter)
To: Impala64ssa
I’m sure a cash payment will go a long way toward smoothing this over.
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posted on
07/29/2015 9:55:17 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Impala64ssa
How about Picard’s Island?
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posted on
07/29/2015 9:58:21 PM PDT
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: doc1019
Renaming things makes liberals feel better about whatever outrage of the day is on their minds.........
To: Impala64ssa
How about SAMBO ISLAND ??
That should keep the race pimps busy for some time.
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posted on
07/29/2015 10:04:51 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
(Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
To: Impala64ssa
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posted on
07/29/2015 10:13:32 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Impala64ssa
To: Impala64ssa
People still buy Hugo Boss clothes, and he made Nazi uniforms.
Stop ENJOYING those clothes, people!
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:22:00 PM PDT
by
boop
(A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
To: Dilbert San Diego
"Renaming things makes liberals feel better about whatever outrage of the day is on their minds........."
Here's a handy tip for liberals: Don't like the name of Riker's island?
Don't do stupid crap that gets you sent there!
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:24:11 PM PDT
by
boop
(A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
To: boop
I understand that Boss actually designed the SS uniform.
Regarding Riker's Island - Maybe they could re-name it Obama Island. Just a thought.
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posted on
07/30/2015 4:25:34 AM PDT
by
Pecos
(What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
To: Impala64ssa
This anti slavery BS has got to stop! It is starting to become laughable.
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posted on
07/30/2015 5:27:49 AM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
To: Impala64ssa
“Sons of Obama Housing Complex.”
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