Posted on 07/26/2018 8:03:57 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A group pushing to change the name of iconic marketplace Faneuil Hall is now calling for a national “black-led boycott” of the tourist site after being “avoided and rebuffed” by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, according to its founder.
Kevin Peterson said the New Democracy Coalition has been reaching out to the mayor for more than a year and a half about a name change through letters, press conferences and office visits.
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It would be safer for everyone else if they don’t go. Sign me up.
To be consistent and compeletly honest, these blacks should disavow all their ancestors. They were the original slave traders.
That's where the various Kennedys (and probably "Honey" Fitz) announced their candidacies. Time to start hounding Lieawatha about whether she supports the name change and/or the boycott, and keep hounding her about it until she leaves office or is forced out. Thanks ConservativeStatement.
He was a freed slave and the first man to die at the Boston Massacre. It can be argued that he was the first man to give his life in the Revolutionary War. I’d support that. More Americans need to know their history.
Now the safest place in Boston!
Eventually they will get around to the “White” House.
My point was that he wasn’t the first to die. Half a dozen others died at the same time. He certainly deserves to be honored, but not any more than the others who died that day—yet their names don’t make the history books. Pointing out that one of the first to die was a black freedman is fine. Making him out to be the first to die is just wrong.
Did you know that the British put the soldiers on trial for the shooting? Did you know that John Adams was their defense attorney and got them acquitted (except for two who were given ‘benefit of clergy’ and branded on the thumb).
As for changing a name that has been a part of our history for over 200 years; that’s absurd.
My advice to people in a position of power when dealing with these Mobs: Say no.....when they scream, say no again....when they scream a third time, say no.....believe me, you will WIN in the long run.
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