Posted on 01/09/2024 5:40:27 AM PST by dennisw
The National Park Service reversed course Monday and abandoned its proposed removal of William Penn's statue from Welcome Park in Old City.
Why it matters: The withdrawn design incorporated Native American history rather than just the story of the state's founder, whose legacy has come under scrutiny for his ownership of enslaved people.
Driving the news: The Park Service said Monday evening that the draft plan, published on Friday, was "released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review."
The agency added that it looks forward to a "robust public process to consider options for refurbishing the park in the coming years." Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a post on X that he worked with the Biden administration to correct the Park Service's original plan and was "pleased" the statue would remain.
Continue reading Between the lines: Friday's proposal came about following outreach from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and discussions with other tribes including the Delaware Nation, the agency said.
The intrigue: The confederacy of tribal nations contends the site of the park was given to them in the 1700s and remains theirs.
Zoom in: Outrage had been building about the possible changes to the site, part of Independence National Historical Park. The Park Service also proposed removing a monument to Penn's Slate Roof House, which sat on the site centuries ago.
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Why the reversal? Because this is an election for the DemonCrats. Traitorous, open borders, history denying, scum that they are.
Charge the left with wanting to change the name of the entire state. Run with it. Go to work.
Instead we’ll breathe a sigh of relief that the statue’s still there.
It’s a game of attack and our leaders draw the line at following Trump-they won’t follow.
Look, rich people owned slaves in those days. Get over it. I recall a black man owning them too.
The statue, which was erected to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Penn’s founding of the colony of Pennsylvania, will be replaced by educational offerings about the history of Native American tribes, the NPS said.
“The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,” it said.
“The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled,” the park service said.
“In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline,” it said.
Members of the public were encouraged to provide feedback on the plans through a controlled public forum.
However, a post on the X platform by the Independence National Historical Park was met with an overwhelmingly negative reaction.
“...the site of the park was given to them in the 1700s and remains theirs...”
Given to them by whom? They may as well contend that ALL of the North American continent is theirs. /spit
I’m so relieved the wokesters allowed us to keep the statue. Do you thing we can keep George Washington and Abraham Lincoln also?
They’ll get rid of it eventually, if not today, then next week. Leftist evil never rests.
Yes, the backlash forced them to delay the removal until after the election.
Yeah, Shapiro put in an emergency call to Jeff Zients, along with Fetterman and Casey, and told them to knock off the stupidity or Biden would lose Philadelphia, and by extension, Pennsylvania, in the forthcoming election.
I’ve always been a fan of the National Park Service. I even worked for the Park Service for a few years. Who the hell gave the Zero G Rangers the authority to tear down a statue of William Penn? The clown that started this attack on American history needs his/her/it/they’s ass fired. Little Rogue Bonehead Rangers. There needs to be an investigation into what was going on here. If non-Americans don’t like the statue, BAN THE BASS TURDS FROM VISITING OUR PARK!
Just REMOVE current democrats
It’s safe...for now.
Maybe they can change the name of the state to Wokesylvania.
I agree with you on charging the left because there is truth in the idea that the lefties are on a path to change the names of states and our history.
We need to get out ahead of them to cut them off from pulling these country altering stunts. Not wait for them to actually do it.
Still nobody with the guts to topple the statue of Lenin in Seattle after all this time. The left has been on full offense and there is never any in kind retaliation.
The name of the state should be changed to Pottsyvania, the fictional Communist East Bloc country in the old Bullwinkle cartoons.
Stephen M. Lepore, Daily Mail, January 7, 2024 Posted on January 8, 2024
The Biden administration’s National Park Service is starting a ‘rehabilitation’ process for a Pennsylvania park that incudes the removal of a statue of founder William Penn and inclusion of representation of Native American tribes.
The Deb Haaland-led parks service sent out the request for input on the changes to Welcome Park Friday on their website and in a post on X.
Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania in 1681, was notorious for his amicable relations with the Native tribes of the region. The park was established 300 years later.
The park itself is named after the ship Penn sailed to America and includes a museum dedicated to celebrating the life and contributions of William Penn.
However, the parks service says it wants to ‘provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors.’
That means, according to the request for ideas, an ‘expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia.’
Officials said the proposal was put together working with members of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, the Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
Public feedback has been asked to be submitted to the NPS website starting Monday and running until January 21.
However, many on social media have already given more than their two cents about the decision.
One asked: ‘How about no more of our tax money for the US Park Service?’
‘I say a bigger William Penn statue. You people are unreal,’ wrote another.
“Why the reversal”
I am normally a gloom and doom guy but I am thinking that we may have lucked out...the anti-Jewish hate of the left is started to terrify Jewish Democrat politicians (like the governor of PA). It is a consequence of the racial politics of the Democrats—and at least the Jewish Democrats may start back-tracking on white replacement theory and practice now that they have been classified as “whites” by the left.
Agree! These barbarian history destroyers really piss me off. And we pay for these Federales cushy jobs via our taxes..
They were brainwashed in our finest universities
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