Posted on 11/22/2021 9:46:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The New York City Council Chamber voted to remove a historic statue of former President Thomas Jefferson, citing his history as a slave owner.
The statue, commissioned by a U.S. Navy commodore in 1833, spent 187 years in the City Council’s chambers before being removed from its pedestal Monday, according to the New York Post.
Approximately a dozen Marshall Fine Arts workers surrounded the structure with wooden and foam boards before using a pulley system to lower it into the downstairs rotunda and carrying it out the back door, the Post reported
“Removing a monument without a public conversation about why it’s happening is useless. New Yorkers all need to talk about who we want to honor and why,” Erin Thompson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said of the removal, according to the outlet.
“Moving this statue doesn’t mean New Yorkers will forget who Thomas Jefferson was — but some of them might learn from the controversy that the man who wrote ‘all men are created equal’ owned over 600 of his fellow humans,” she added.
The vote to remove the structure was split among councilmembers, with some, such as Staten Island Republican Councilman Joe Borelli objecting.
“This is more progressive war on history,” Borelli said, according to New York Daily News.
“Why wasn’t this put on the consent calendar? I thought we were having this big public discussion about monuments. Apparently not,” he continued.
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NYC has how many streets, parks, buildings, named after Jefferson and Washington? Burn ‘em down. Burn them all down! /s
Maybe the House of Representatives should impeach Jefferson now.
And the George Washington Bridge?
Next up will be Jefferson’s writings. Just watch.
RE: And the George Washington Bridge?
That will come next, as will Washington DC and the State of Washington.
But first, the following will have to be renamed:
Jefferson, New Hampshire
Jefferson, Maine
Jefferson, Texas
Jefferson, Wisconsin
Jefferson City, Missouri, state capital
Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania
Jefferson City, Tennessee
Jefferson Township, New Jersey
Jeffersontown, Kentucky
Jefferson, South Dakota
Port Jefferson, New York
Jefferson, Oregon
Jefferson, Georgia
ALSO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
Jefferson County, Alabama
Jefferson County, Colorado
Jefferson County, Iowa
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Jefferson County, Missouri
Jefferson County, Montana
Jefferson County, New York
Jefferson County, Ohio
Jefferson County, Oklahoma
Jefferson County, Oregon
Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Jefferson County, Tennessee
Jefferson County, Washington
Jefferson County, West Virginia
Jefferson County, Wisconsin
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Jefferson County, Georgia
ALSO THIS MOUNTAIN:
Mount Jefferson
And speaking of Mountains, we have to take away Thomas Jefferson’s face from Mt. Rushmore.
And Oh yeah, while we’re at it, we might eventually have to rename our country — AMERICA as well.
It was named after navigator and Cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci who own a few slaves himself.
Amerigo Vespucci willed that he would leave most of his properties and five household slaves to his wife.
His wife’s name was Maria Cerezo. In his will, he mentioned her as the daughter of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
Due to having no children, he willed everything to his wife’s name.
And Oh yeah, while we’re at it, we might eventually have to rename our country — AMERICA as well.
It was named after navigator and Cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci who owned a few slaves himself.
Amerigo Vespucci willed that he would leave most of his properties and five household slaves to his wife.
His wife’s name was Maria Cerezo. In his will, he mentioned her as the daughter of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba.
Due to having no children, he willed everything to his wife’s name.
But first, Yale University has to be renamed. Elihu Yale was involved in the Slave Trade.
You can’t view the 18th century through 21st century eyes.
Wouldn’t people of that era be shocked to see present day America and present day Americans?
New York itself is named after the Duke of York!
Why is that important?
Check out the following ..
https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/new-york-is-named-after-a-horrendous-slave-trader/
For me, Jefferson was the best of the founders. My attitude is NYC doesn’t deserve Jefferson, DeBlasio doesn’t qualify to lick Jefferson’s boots.
DeBlasio isn’t qualified to be Jefferson’s toilet.
An yet, I’m pretty sure the statue of Stalin still stands in Seattle.
South basher ping
Jefferson rescued from hell.
A rescue effort to remove Jefferson from hell was successful.
It is communist New York, after all.
Do what you may to make yourselves feel good we know the truth
The American Taliban have struck again.
just like all marxist governments
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