All the Confederate Generals are U.S. military Veterans, according to the Veterans Administration
I propose that no street, or building, or bridge, or park should be named for any Democrat so as a avoid any renaming in the future.
New York itself is one big symbol of slavery and racism.
The original economy in the 1700s was built on the slave trade.
ROTFL! Hey Cuomo. Get a life, sonny.
I would tell them - Okay, gov. You have two choices. Keep the Confederate generals or we change them all the Ronald Reagan. Take your pick.
Cuomo needs to get a clue that ft Hamilton is federal land and is not his territory
He should also get a clue that when this country pulls its head out and stops killing innocent babies that he is going to be one of history’s major offenders
Abortion has killed 56,000,000 innocents in 45 years
Cuomo is a leader of that
Then prohibit the display of the Democratic National Committee logo in New York.
"They're basically today's Democrats arguing about statues of yesterday's Democrats."
I mean, Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston were best buds after the war.
Cuomo says symbols of slavery and racism have no place in New York.
He believes renaming of the streets will send a clear message that New York stands against intolerance and racism!
Cuomo is correct! We should remove everything/name connected with racism. We should rename New York State and New York City as they were named for the Duke of York, the racist and future King James of England.
What was the Royal African Company? - Ask History
Apr 27, 2016 - Led by the king’s younger brother James, the Duke of York(later King James II), this group had a monopoly on British trade with West Africa, including gold, silver and slaves.
www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-royal-african-company
So the State of New York and New York city should be torn down and deposed like Confederate monuments as they were named after a man, the Duke of York, who was responsible for the seizing and selling of slaves via his leadership/connections with the Royal African Company.
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Cuomo -- like 95+% of liberals-- is an imbecile!
By stating that he is opposed to "intolerance" he has already "sent a clear message" of his stance.
By insisting on erasing history, Cuomo is being the very epitome of intolerance!!
Liberals: irrational imbeciles, all...
Should we rename all the Indian-themed helicopters? Those guys kept slaves and lost, as well.
Everything associated with the Roosevelt family needs to go. The family made their initial fortune processing sugar made by slaves under horrific conditions. Roosevelt's owned slaves. Some argue Theodore was a white supremacist.
Everything associated with Stuyvesant, last Dutch governor general, needs to go. He was a racist, and an Anti-Semite.
All the mentions of George Washington from the square, statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, the bridge, etc. needs to go. The reason why is very well known.
Not enough, Gov. New York was founded by the Dutch, notorious slave traders and slave owners.
“In 1814, the Netherlands signed an international agreement to stop the slave trade. On 1 July 1863, slavery itself was officially abolished in the main Dutch slave colony of Surinam. The effect was not immediate however. Although released from slavery, plantation workers were required to continue their former work for another ten years on contract basis. Sympathy among the Dutch lay with the slave owners, not the victims of slavery.”
It took the Dutch nearly 50 years to end slavery in their Western Hemisphere colony after having signed an international treaty to end it!
So, NY must eliminate EVERY Dutch name from the entire state AND destroy EVERY statue of every Dutch founder. To get started, use the following list. There are THOUSANDS more that must be eliminated. Maybe every little Dutch burg and town needs to be leveled because you cannot be too cautious about such things. We won’t be safe until every vestige of slavery is eliminated.
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Minuit (also: Minnewit)
Cornelis Steenwijk
Adriaen van der Donk
Jonas Bronck -> Bronx
Nassau
Bleecker
Beekman
Gansevoort
Rensselaer
Schermerhorn
baas -> boss
jonker (squire) -> Yonkers
stoep -> stoop
koekje -> cookie
Haarlem -> Harlem
Vlissingen -> Flushing
Breukelen -> Brooklyn
Staten Land -> Staten Island
Kromme Zee -> Gramercy (crooked sea/lake)
Tappan Zee -> the Tappan Zee is named for an American Indian tribe from the area called “Tappan”; and zee being the Dutch word for “sea”. Indians also held slaves. Now, I’m not sure about the minor Tappan tribe. Maybe they were good guys. But the other tribes were bad, so the entire name Tappan Zee must go.
De Bouwerij -> The Bowery
Schuylkill (’hidden(?) river,’ in Philadelphia)
Flushing was already the English name for the Dutch port Vlissingen.
The ‘Staten’ (Estates) were the 17th Century Dutch government.
‘Kil’ or ‘kille’ means ‘river’ or ‘canal’ (no longer found in modern Dutch.)
The Northern Iroquoian tribes were notorious slave owners, too. So all Indian names in NYS must be eliminated, too. I will list only a few to get the ball rolling.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Hillary and Bill Clinton live in a town named for INDIAN SLAVE OWNERS!! it’s interesting that Chappaqua means “place where the brush makes a rustling sound when you walk through.” It’s almost as if the Indians anticipated HRC’s walks in their woods after getting shellacked by Trump!
Following are from The place names of Westchester County, New York by Richard M. Lederer (1978, ISBN: 9780916346300):
Acquasimink - stream near Cortlandt - “it’s dry with the water gone”
Alipartis - area in New Castle -
Alipkonk - Tarrytown - “where the elm trees grow” — or per Scharf “place of elms”
Amackassin - former landmark near Greenburgh/Yonkers - “a large rock” near Hudson River
Amawalk - mountain, reservoir near Somers - “people gathering up a little hill”
Apawamis - Rye Neck
Appagaghpogh - land near Cortlandt - “where the cattails used to cover lodges grow”
Apwonnah - Milton Harbor Rye - “the landlocked bay”
Aqueanouncke - Hutchinson River - “red cedar trees”
Aquehung - Bronx River
Armenperal - Sprain Brook
Armonk - See Chaubunkongamong NOTE: IBM Headquarters! They need to relocate ASAP!
Asoquatah - East Long Pond Mountain, Lewisboro - “pine tree sap place”
Aspetong - mountain in Bedford - “the high place”
Asumsowis - Pelham lower harbor - “by the straight inlet”
Bisightick - Sunnyside Brook Irvington/Tarrytown - “something that’s half there”
Cahotatea - Hudson River - “river that comes from the mountains”
Cantitoe - See Katonah
Caywaywest - Orienta Point, Mamaroneck
Chappaqua < shappequa > - “place where the brush makes a rustling sound when you walk through”
Chaubunkongamaug (~Armonk, Cohamong, Coman, Cobamong) - Byram River
Cisqua river and meadow in Bedford, NY - From a Munsee term meaning “muddy place”, from asiiskuw “mud” (whence also, per Whritenour, Kisco in Westchester County, NY); compare Unami siskuu “it is muddy”.
Cobamong pond - North Castle - See Chaubunkongamaug
Trump should come cut the ribbon on the Mario the Pious Latrines.
I believe the Army already said “no”.
What a pathetic Leftist. His absurd demand represents an obvious form of extreme intolerance. And since it is also apparently a racially motivated attack on a specific people, the former Southern leadership, it probably reflects racial animosity, as well.
And see Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today, for a general discussion on recent efforts to revive regional hatred in America.
And when the US ARMY named those streets, it was in a spirit of reconciliation, brotherhood, and in a spirit of forgiving and asking for forgiveness. These people are clueless about the reasons and about our shared heritage, north and south, black and white, slave and free.