Philadelphia removes statue of ex-mayor seen as 'deplorable monument to racism, bigotry, and police brutality'

The Hill ^ | 06 03 2020 | Reid Wilson

[mware]

Let’s see Kate Smith,Frank Rizzo, can Betsy Ross be far behind.

[mware]

I’m still posses about Kate Smith’s statue. Took her statue down in the dark of night too.

[Williams]

Of course!

[ChronicMA]

Well they did go after the memorial for the black Union Army civil war troops located in Boston.

[PghBaldy]

Great point. The MOVE bombing was unbelievable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing

[CurlyDave]

...Maybe every heavily-black city in the U.S. should get a Confederate statue just for inevitable race-based riots, and then hopefully the rioters can vent their anger on it instead of local businesses...

Sort of like a piñata at a birthday party.

[kosciusko51]

And the Liberty Bell...

[xrmusn]

Well, they were warned....

‘Lucky’ that Goode was the Mayor, no telling what the ‘Africa’ family etal AND the country would have done had Rizzo been still in office.

It is ‘surprising’ that there is a Rizzo statue tho, I guess he was ‘sort of’ the Bull Connor/Lester Maddox of the Philly area...

Definitely no nonsense when it came to certain situations.

I think that ‘Africa’ family was ‘founded’ in part because of Rizzo and his ‘ilk’....<: <: <:

[freeandfreezing]

True. Rizzo was no saint, but he actually stopped riots and protected innocent African Americans from having their neighborhoods trashed.

And he was elected by the citizens of Philadelphia to become the mayor. A lot of the voters in Philadelphia are African Americans, so that says a lot about what people felt at the time.

[mware]

Saw that. 54 Mass. Black regiment. Reg. The movie Glory was based on.

[yuleeyahoo]

Democrats purging their own public history by removing Democrat monuments.

[Albion Wilde]

I think that ‘Africa’ family was ‘founded’ in part because of Rizzo and his ‘ilk’....

Not really. At least no more than 5%.

[Albion Wilde]

Philly ping!

[Songcraft]

When are they going to take down that racist William Penn statue, currently atop the Philadelphia City Hall?

      

[sport]

Soon as they think about it, FRiend, as soon as they think about it.

[New Jersey Realist]

Frank Rizzo was a great chief of police and mayor. He was a “good” democrat and a gift to the city of Philadelphia. He took no crap from hoodlums.

[bert]

Africanization is destroying American cities

[NormsRevenge]

any stats available comparing his reign to that of other dems since then?

he moved from dem after 1986 and ran as a repub.

in his time, he took after the Black Panthers and MOVE.. eventually lost a run for third term to the city’s first black mayor.

[Truthoverpower]

How is there is a junior in high school On Osage Avenue when It went down it was pretty shocking

[blackdog]

I was a field service guy with a territory covering Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery counties. I lived on WWDB talk radio at the time. Irv Homer was my hero. He really did a great job explaining MOVE, it's history before, during, and after the incident.

That station back then was amazing. I left Philadelphia in 1994. My family's roots there went back to 1734. Not a single family member stayed. We all left between 1994 and 1998. Carolinas, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee. See a trend there?