Posted on 10/14/2015 5:48:06 PM PDT by KeyLargo
US De Blasio Removes Paintings Of Founding Fathers, Replaces Them With More Diverse Artwork Emma Colton Contributor
New York City’s de Blasio family reportedly trashed paintings of founding fathers in the mayor’s mansion and replaced them with more diverse historical figures.
According to the New York Post, the Big Apple’s mayoral family junked a handful of paintings depicting George Washington and other unspecified founding fathers from the historical Yellow Parlor in the Gracie Mansion for more diverse artifacts that will reportedly better represent the history of America.
The Yellow Parlor, where guests of New York’s mayor have been entertained for centuries, will now showcase a tomahawk given by colonialists to the chief warrior of the Iroquois in 1797, pictures of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former slave Pierre Toussaint and a proof of sale for a slave named Maria.
The changes were made by the mayor’s wife, Chirlane McCray, who felt the historical house desperately lacked diversity. The Wall Street Journal reported McCray wants the house to better represent the 1700s and 1800s.
“I can’t imagine anyone going through this life and looking up at the walls and handling objects with no reflection at all of who you are as a person and your contributions to what made that world,” McCray told the Wall Street Journal. “I think it would be kind of strange.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Listen for the Wilhelm Scream
replaced by Afro art no doubt
The Communist Takeover Of
America - 45 Declared Goals
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
http://www.rense.com/general32/americ.htm
Maybe they should put some aborted baby images up on the wall for a little pizazz..
The De Blasios have dumped portraits of George Washington and others from Gracie Mansion to add more diversity to the artwork hanging in his official residence, a report said.
A new installation will include pictures of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former slave-turned-philanthropist Pierre Toussaint among artifacts that portray the history of the working class in the time of shipping magnate Archibald Gracie, according to NBC News.
A spokesperson for the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City disputed the part of the NBC report that said they were ditching George Washington to make room for Touissaint.
The spokesperson told The Post that, in fact, the Toussaint piece would be placed in the space above America’s first president.
I wonder if he’ll decorate the Festiva tree with hammer and sickle ornaments...
Effing puke.
Typical commie degenerate. Feel the love, NY voters. You deserve it.
Why not.
The left has made such progress constantly shoving this nation’s sins front and center, year after year, decade after decade.
Might as well pull out all the stops while the gettin’s still good.
The Obama Watch
Ho Chi Minh, Obama’s Freedom Fighter
Our president echoes the Party line on Vietnam.
By Paul Kengor – 8.7.13
All I wanted to do last week was enjoy my vacation. Instead, I was assaulted by another breathtaking statement from the president of the United States, provided courtesy of an official White House press release. The occasion was a July 25 meeting between President Obama and the leader of communist Vietnam. Obama stated: “President Sang shared with me a copy of a letter sent by Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman. And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.”
This, of course, is utter nonsense. Ho Chi Minh was a committed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who cut his teeth at Moscow’s Lenin School. He became one of the Soviet Comintern’s most successful agents. Among the testimonies to his efforts are the countless boat people from Vietnam who now live in America (many of whom voted for Obama).
But not only is Obama’s statement nonsense; it’s also the product of communist propaganda.
In 2010, I published a book called Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. There, I shared numerous lines cooked up by Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to dupe liberals. One of them was precisely the line Obama echoed on July 25. CPUSA and its mouthpieces regularly compared Ho Chi Minh to the American Founders, claiming he was fighting for the ideas not of the Bolshevik Revolution but of the American Revolution. This line was employed constantly, and it worked magically with wide-eyed liberals. In Dupes, I gave several examples, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, a leftist dupe easily manipulated by American communists. To wit:
In 1968, Spock published an influential screed against the Vietnam War, titled simply, Dr. Spock on Vietnam, and co-authored with Mitchell Zimmerman, a Princeton grad student and anti-war activist. They consistently referred to the Vietcong as “communist patriots,” literally akin to the American revolutionaries. “The Vietnamese people declared their independence from France,” the authors stated, “much as we declared our independence from England in 1776.” More so, “Their war of independence was fought by a united front of various political groups and was led by the communist patriot Ho Chi Minh…. Ho is sometimes called the George Washington of Vietnam.”
According to Spock’s book, these were glorious patriots in North Vietnam, not totalitarian Marxists. These (unelected) modern incarnations of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin had earned the support of the population: “The motivation for revolution is the same today as it was in 1776: the desire for justice and a better life.”
Naturally, Dr. Spock’s book was a smash among “progressives.” Yet, the book had another unsuspecting audience, this one deep inside Vietnam. An eyewitness was Lt. Robert Frishman, a decorated POW held by the Vietcong for two years. Once released, Frishman testified to Congress about the propaganda that he and other POWs were fed. In addition to closing and ending each day to the radio sound of “Hanoi Hannah,” they were allowed certain limited reading, so long as it was in the form of anti-American indoctrination. Frishman told Congress: “Dr. Spock on Vietnam, I got to read that four or five times.”
So did untold numbers of American moms who had nursed and reared their babies according to earlier Spock books. Imagine them naively wondering why America was not fighting with, rather than against, Ho Chi Minh and the communists. Why would Uncle Sam be at war with George Washington?
Read at: http://spectator.org/articles/55115/ho-chi-minh-obamas-freedom-fighter
I thought he already had. Maybe I was mistaken.
Portrait of Pierre Toussaint left, and his wife, Juliette Noel Toussaint
Obama had a Chairman Mao ornament on his Winter Break Tree in the White Hut.
Nothing says classy-lady like hairy shoulders!!
portrait of Pierre Toussaint right... in drag.
How's that for diversity?
eyewash stat!
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