Our Sixth President, John X Adams
It is rank hypocrisy to keep the building donated by the slave owner but change the name. If they are so indignant, they need to return the building to his heirs.
They read the history books to find out who was a slaveholder before slavery was abolished. That includes a lot of people. If they plan to abolish everything with the name of a former slaveholder, they have enough to keep them busy for the next few hundred years.
After that, it will be descendants of the Columbus ship crew.
Have went? More proof that no one, I mean NO ONE, uses editors and/or proofreaders anymore.
As a stickler for good grammar, this drives me crazy (and it wasn't a long drive to begin with).;-)
Hey, to all the pea-brain Libs out there.
PeeLousie still owns “slaves” on Samoa.
Why don’t you go “protest that ugly brain-dead beotch?
Morons.
The rich liberals that own all the high end eateries up in Boston are going to get a taste of their own SJW tactics. They created them and now they are trying to eat their own. But Boston liberals are nothing if not vicious when they are threatened. They hate losing money and they are as cheap as they come with it.
I move to FL from there years ago and I can tell you there is more racism and bias in one square mile in Boston than half of Florida. I would love nothing more than to see Boston become the next Oregon or Seattle, but it probably won’t happen...they will stomp it out and do it in a way to teach the little critters a lesson.
Does anyone think that one of the most racist cities is really going to give a hoot what these snowflakes think?
No real Bostonian spends much time there, except if friends from out of town are there.
If by Boycott, that means the troublemakers will stay away, I say great!
Boycott meaning staying away, or boycott meaning typical left wing activist protests bothering people and getting in the way of fun and commerce?
“have went”
*have gone
Last time I was at FH it was just a bunch of bars
Time to start going after any monuments related to the civil war or racial oppression. That includes anything touting “civil rights” which is just a reminder of civil strife and leads to mental harm to black men and women who think themselves inferior.
Remove all the history.
Our Sixth President, John X Adams
At that time, being taken somewhat aback, I fell silent but with misgivings about the overall trend that this effort was taking. Now I'd like to, in a very polite way, return to them and ask if they still felt the same about the overall movement. Faneuil Hall AND Austin Texas are just the latest places in the cross-hairs. These 'activists', feeling empowered by their easy publicity and low initial resistance, keep looking for more targets with ever thinner associations to their overly sensitized victimhood. We saw and laughed at how the Soviet Union and Peoples Republic of China would change historical photos to remove un-persons. We read George Orwell's "1984" and said that the "memory hole" could not happen here, right?
Well Chuckie, guess what, they're here!
The Faneul clan appear to real Americans with the bark on , not some PC social justice warrior such as Charles Sumner.
Peter Faneuil entered Boston’s commission and shipping business and soon proved a competent trader, assisting his uncle in running a lucrative mercantile establishment that traded with Antigua, Barbados, Spain, the Canary Islands, and England, only a few of the places from which Faneuil’s correspondence survives.
Prominent in the Triangular trade, Peter shipped enslaved people to the West Indies and brought molasses and sugar to the Colonies. He handled merchandise from Europe and the Caribbean, exported rum, fish, and produce, and engaged in shipbuilding. When he ventured both ship and cargo in transatlantic or coastal commerce, he customarily shared the risk with others. Charging 5% for handling consignments, he used advanced business methods and kept careful records. Fishing-grounds agents kept him informed of market prices and furthered his commercial connections. Not all of his trade was legal. When in 1736 his ship Providence was seized for exchanging fish and oil for French gold, he complained that only the “caprice” of the admiralty judge, a “Vile” man, was responsible for “Impositions” on a “fair trader” that was “in no way founded on law and justice.”
A childless widower, Andrew Faneuil for some reason threatened to disinherit either of his two nephews if they married. Benjamin Jr. preferred wedlock to a share of the enormous Faneuil fortune, which in addition to ships, shops, and a mansion in Tremont Street included £14,000 in East India Company stock. During his uncle’s final illness Peter managed Andrew’s business as well as his own. Peter, who was swarthy, stocky, and disabled since childhood, remained single, inheriting most of the fortune. Peter became—despite handsome bequests to his sisters—one of America’s wealthiest men, living sumptuously in a Beacon Street mansion. For the five brief years of life that remained to him after his uncle’s death in February 1738 he lived up to the name of one of his best ships: The Jolly Batchelor. Writing to his London partners to inform them of his uncle’s death, he also requested five pipes of Madeira wine: “As this wine is for the use of my house, I hope you will be careful that I have the best.” Soon thereafter, he requested a “handsome chariot” emblazoned with the family crest, accompanied by a coachman unlikely “to be debauched with strong drink, rum, etc.” as were most European servants. He also asked for “the latest, best book of the several sorts of cookery, which pray let be of the largest characters, for the benefit of the maid’s reading.”
Good to know. A nice place to visit with no libs around to spoil the atmosphere.
Oh goody
Yankees living like southerners have now for decades
I told you guys they wouldn’t stop with what Mark Levin and and Dinesh DSouza and Ben Shapiro and Jonah Goldberg call neoconfederates
Pass the popcorn
Next stop Newport RI I’d reckon