Chicago task force recommends removal of monuments, including Christopher Columbus statues, and the addition of others. Now what?

Chicago Tribune ^ | 08/19/2022 | Gregory Pratt and Alice Yin

[simpson96]

CHICAGO — Two years ago, as the city of Chicago reeled from a bloody battle between police officers and protesters over a prominent statue of Christopher Columbus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot launched an ambitious review of public monuments she said would be “a racial healing and historical reckoning project.”

This week, the Chicago Monuments Project finally released its long-delayed report recommending a series of new public memorials across the city and the removal of several statues that the commission flagged for honoring white supremacy or disrespecting Indigenous peoples.

Whether Lightfoot will follow the committee’s recommendations remains to be seen, however, as the mayor has promised to return Columbus statues to their former spots in the public square and has been critical of what she has said are efforts to rewrite history.

[simpson96]

link: The Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee

The Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee is a group of community leaders, artists, architects, scholars, curators, and city officials, who are dedicating their time, experience, and expertise to lead this effort. This broad coalition will engage with a wide range of communities and world views to ask questions and bring the perspectives required to do this work on behalf of all Chicago’s people.

History

The Chicago Monuments Project is calling out the hard truths of our history — especially as they relate to racism and oppression.

Histories and stories shown in many of our monuments are false and harmful representations that are offensive to many people.

Telling a true and inclusive history is important, as is addressing who gets to tell those stories in public space.

Our priority is to address ignored, forgotten and distorted histories.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

And let me guess, replace them with statues of Barry and Michael? Stalin? Che?

[Lurker]

“Broad coalition” my ass.

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[Bernard]

Angry Italians in Chicago. I’ve seen that movie.

[LegendHasIt]

Lemme guess:

Obamas (both Barry and Mike).
George Floyd.
Jussie Smollett
Jessie Jackson
Al Sharpton.
Oprah
Beyonce
And maybe Lightfoot herself

[GaryCrow]

When a society starts purging it's history it's a sure sign that it won't last much longer. A few years ago they started the purge of confederate leader statues, now they're going after Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc. because they owned slaves. Never mind that they were the founders of the most successful country in the history of the world, nah, that doesn't matter.

Countries that purge history aren't free. These are things that China and the Taliban do, not free countries. Talk about the past, discussion is healthy. Purging the past? That's the realm of tyrants.

[PAR35]

They still have the monumnent to Fascist superiority, don’t they? https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facilities/balbo-monument

[TLI]

“Biden marks Slavery Remembrance Day: ‘Great nations don’t hide from their history”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4087105/posts

That is all the communist prog do is hide history and distort reality.

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[TLI]

Big Mike never looked that good any day of it’s life.

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[nascarnation]

Grand Caliph Baraq of North America!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What gets me about leftists is they are the biggest freakin’ hypocrites ever created in the history of mankind. They make pretend they are freaked out about slavery yet they support Biden who is making slaves of illegal aliens.

The media NEVER reports how these illegals become enslaved to the cartels that are transporting them to the tune of thousands of dollars, I heard numbers as high as $20,000. These illegals become indebted to owing huge amounts and they find when they get here they are making crap money that ensures they are working for nothing for years, decades, working solely for the cartels that threaten their families unless they pay.

They can’t even afford housing so they end up homeless camping out in the woods unable to go back to where they came from. Here the liberals they serve won’t even provide them with housing or food. They are WORSE off than slaves of the 1800s!!! And these scumbags are passing judgement??

https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/squalid-migrant-campgrounds-hide-among-luxury-hamptons-homes/

[Paladin2]

Maybe LightHeaded should fix South Chiraq?

[Tacrolimus1mg]

Now what?

I start selling my body in order to make enough money to get out of Illinois. (Kidding. Mostly.)

[gundog]

Might be worth a mugging to feed the pigeons in that park

[stylin19a]

lesst we forget what happened back then - July 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIqlMtmpKq8&t=3s

Lightfoot didn't send any reinforcements

[BipolarBob]

I almost responded to this but caught myself.

[bigbob]

remove every member of that crap commission instead

[17th Miss Regt]

“Broad coalition” my ass.

Is Stacy Abrams a member of the coalition? If so, it is most certainly a broad ass coalition.

[TygertLane]

Chicago task force recommends no removal of the George Floyd statue.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

All removed statues should be replaced with wacky waving inflatable tube men. The more ridiculous the better.

I didn’t realize that all of the removals cost the taxpayers nothing./s

So after all of the statues that have been removed so far, can the left show us one person who’s life has been made better by these liberal tantrums?