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NYC to Consider Removing George Washington Statue
Todd Starnes ^ | September 19, 2023 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 09/19/2023 11:21:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill

George Washington, the Father of our Country, may soon get evicted from the Big Apple.

The New York City Cultural Affairs Committee is set to hold a public hearing that could lead to the removal of statues and monuments honoring our nation’s first president, Christopher Columbus and Peter Stuyvesant.

Stuyvesant was an early settler of New York City and has a park and prominent high school named in his honor. He was also a slaveholder – and he was white.

There are multiple statues and monuments to Washington, including Washington Square Park and the George Washington Bridge. It’s unclear whether the park and bridge will be leveled or just simply renamed.

Columbus Circle, at the entrance of Central Park, has long been a source of controversy among the perpetually offended crowd. But the Italians are vowing to fight.

“Columbus was a migrant!’’ Angelo Vivolo, president of the Columbus Heritage Coalition, told the New York Post. “This woke group wants to cancel our culture.”

In 2021 New York City’s overwhelmingly Democrat city council voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from City Hall. Jefferson’s crime was also being white — and a slaveholder — and a man — and heterosexual.

“This is little more than an attempt by the radical left to rewrite our nation’s history,” Joann Ariola (R-Queens) told the newspaper. “These men all had an enormous impact on this country, and these statues commemorating their achievements have been in place for decades.

“The radical left has been trying to reframe our nation as one born from evil, and it is time we put our foot down and say enough is enough,” she said. “The Founding Fathers and the others who worked so hard to establish this great country should be celebrated, not eliminated from memory.”

The Cultural Affairs Committee will consider removing any statue “depict(ing) a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity.”

“I’m here for the fight. The Italian-American community will come out strongly against this move to ban Columbus, a symbol of Italian-American accomplishment. But it’s not just Columbus. You’re going against Washington, Jefferson. You’re going against the people who contributed greatly to America,” Vivolo said


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: newyorkcity; nyc; pc; washington
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Yes, we must not commemorate those evil racist slaveholders, so let's level Washington Square, Washington Heights and the George Washington Bridge.
1 posted on 09/19/2023 11:21:07 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

These morons don’t deserve America. What they deserve is a hellhole like Zimbabwe.


2 posted on 09/19/2023 11:22:47 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Fiji Hill

They deserve a statue of a turd


3 posted on 09/19/2023 11:23:32 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Bullish

I had the same reaction


4 posted on 09/19/2023 11:24:20 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Fiji Hill

The American Taliban erasing our history so they can replace it with godless Communism.


5 posted on 09/19/2023 11:24:43 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Fiji Hill

Can the USA remove Washington state as it has fallen to the communists?


6 posted on 09/19/2023 11:25:02 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Fiji Hill
IIRC, Washington was the only southern founding father to free his slaves.

Not perfect, but moved the needle in the right direction.

7 posted on 09/19/2023 11:25:17 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Fiji Hill
At one time this would anger me, but at this point I just shake my head.

NYC (where I was born) is completely lost to civilization.
I left in the early 1980s, and refuse to set foot there since 2020.

8 posted on 09/19/2023 11:25:31 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Bullish

Anywhere they can be made to suffer.


9 posted on 09/19/2023 11:26:17 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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That seemed really strange to say that they could level the George Washington Bridge.

Does someone really want to tear down the George Washington Bridge to make a political statement against George Washington?


10 posted on 09/19/2023 11:26:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Fiji Hill

They only do this to upset people so tell them go ahead take them all down


11 posted on 09/19/2023 11:27:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Fiji Hill

I don’t have to (even) read the article——Let me guess “he’s a racist”.


12 posted on 09/19/2023 11:27:42 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Fiji Hill

The Left (that is, the Democrat/Communist Party) destroys most everything it touches. The only thing the Democrat/Communist Party leaders and their cult-followers hate more than America is Americans.


13 posted on 09/19/2023 11:27:57 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Salman

I left in 1989 right in the middle of the Dinkins era. Never looked back. It is a hell hole.


14 posted on 09/19/2023 11:28:01 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: frank ballenger

People who think like this ruin everything for everybody. They’re a scourge on this country.


15 posted on 09/19/2023 11:28:16 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Fiji Hill

That guy Washington. What did he ever do for the United States, anyway? Didn’t even have anything on Tik Tok or X.


16 posted on 09/19/2023 11:28:43 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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And create a Reparations Task Force. So let me see. They’re going broke because of the influx of illegal aliens who demand lotsa free stuff and gt it and now they’re going to get taxpayers to pay blacks for the crime of slavery that the Democrats promulgated along with Jim Crow, the KKK, and segregation in the South. Welcome to Hell on Earth II.


17 posted on 09/19/2023 11:29:18 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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What would Nikki Haley say?


18 posted on 09/19/2023 11:29:33 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: NWFree
They deserve a statue of a turd

Already got something like that. MLK statue in Boston.

19 posted on 09/19/2023 11:31:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Our communist masters continue on their unstoppable roll...

The collapse of the United States into a permanent tyranny matches any other collapse in global history...


20 posted on 09/19/2023 11:31:55 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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