Posted on 02/18/2021 1:37:08 AM PST by PBRCat
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is confronting the “hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,” launching a public process to review the fate of 41 statues and other monuments, including some of former presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.
Reasons for making the list include promoting narratives of white supremacy; presenting an inaccurate or demeaning portrayal of Native Americans; celebrating people with connections to slavery, genocide or racist acts; or “presenting selective, over-simplified, one-sided views of history.”
Besides five statutes of Lincoln, others on the list include the General John Logan Monument in Grant Park; the General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument at Belmont and Lake Shore Drive; a statue of Benjamin Franklin in Lincoln Park; the Haymarket Riot Monument/ Police Memorial at 1300 W. Jackson Blvd; the Italo Balbo Monument in Burnham Park; and the Jean Baptiste Beaubien plaque at the Chicago Cultural Center.
ightfoot called the project a “powerful opportunity for us to come together as a city to assess the many monuments and memorials across our neighborhoods and communities — to face our history and what and how we memorialize that history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Lightfoot dropped out of Hell’s rectum!
It’s a coup and they believe it’s a different country they’ve formed.
To them the U.S. Never existed.
What’s the quote from ‘1984’ about history being erased? (or similar)
“Who controls the past controls the present. Who controls the present controls the future’’.
I found it:
“George Orwell’s “1984”: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.”
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is a racist activist.
The Chicago Committee???????? Sounds like some very strange individuals with far left ideals. Light in the loafers keeps getting weirder..............Scary.
Chicago’s toxic Mayor Lightfoot and her black community remind me of South Africa .....and they’re still not happy there. They fail to control their own people once in power and everything goes down hill.
Maybe the rest of us should scrutinize Lightfoot and compare her to the historical figures she wants to debunk.
Bite me Lightfoot.
Lets face there is no united America. I don’t consider these people to be my countrymen. They can GF themselves
A retarded black dyke is questioning Washington and Lincoln?
I want off of this rock.
They Live was a great flick.
(I know that’s not an actual scene)
Celebrate Diversity...
Time to load up our idle cruise ships and send people to Liberia.
Insecthead thinks?
Bug-eyed serial killer of history.
A face that scares bugs off her car windshield when she’s driving 60 mph on the fwy.
😎
The problem with Chicago is that the city government - particularly the schools and the police department -- aren't doing their jobs.
Who is supposed to be in charge of the Chicago city government?
yeah...but this stuff keeps the local papers and news channels from the the types of questions yur asking!
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