Next they’ll want to rename Grant’s Tomb because he once owned slaves.
And demolish Monticello and UVA
Why should Signer and Bellamy and McAuliffe care it both are $$$ makers . . . ITS THE PRINCIPLE THAT COUNTS, RIGHT BOYS?
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Everything is racist. Someone has to say no to these people. There will be nothing left before yesterday, and it was racist, too.
The left is in total meltdown. Even hysterically turning on their once revered icons.
Best election, best president, evah!!
Change the name back to Blackwell Island — after John Forbes Kerry’s grandpappy.
As Drudge says: “It begins.”
Wait till they learn that Margaret Sanger is the matron saint of the demonicRAT Party and that's why so many Planned Parenthood "clinics" are in black neighborhoods.
The area was first settled by the Dutch, who purchased the land from the Indians. There were no "American settlers" involved, and there was no "slaughter."
Let it go back to its original name: Blackwell Island. You can still see the infamous old prison from the Manhattan side.
FDR also had what today would be considered racist views of blacks.
There was a guy in New York named Egan, I think. He allowed folks to enjoy his estate. Ice skating, things like that. Eventually, he donated the land to the city to be a park for the public. Egan Park. A week after he died, the city council voted to rename the park Roosevelt Park.
By association, wouldn’t that make Hillary a racist, since she launched her campaign there?
“”To add injury to insult, the name was taken away from the Native American people who were slaughtered by the American settlers””
There were native Americans who were named Roosevelt? Who woulda’ known? Wonder where their territory/nation was?
That’s impossible. Democrats can’t be racist.
Actually the FDR Drive should keep it’s name. Ever since it was converted into a limited access parkway 70 years ago it’s been under perpetual reconstruction and the roadway still looks like it was hit by a mortar attack. It has the dubious distinction of being one of the few elevated highways prone to flooding and may be sinking into the East River. A perfect example of of government waste and inefficiency.
Just wow. FDR, the Socialist Icon, is now verboden? Amazing.
I’m waiting for the snowflakes to demand the Robert Moses Causeway out on Long Island be renamed. According to his biography, The Power Broker, Moses’ level of racism would embarrass a klansman. HMMM,better keep my big mouth shut or they’ll get more dumbass ideas.
Ping.