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
And the military can’t figure out why recruitment-rates are crashing.
We promote hate of our founders, hate of our common history, we don’t have borders, we let government and its well-connected friend rob us blind - what is there to fight for?
“Yes, we must not commemorate those evil racist slaveholders, so let’s level Washington Square, Washington Heights and the George Washington Bridge.”
Just make it immigrant housing. Although Washington Heights has been that for at least two generations.
Replace it with Biggie Smalls.
It would be fitting for this ghetto black approving culture in America.
Trump
Was
Right
Once
Again!
What about Martha Washington?
Considering the NewYidiots, they'll probably rename the bridge to Eric Adams and Hochul. Adams would be the upper level.
Is it time for the (2nd) Revolution to begin?
...and take away Washington DC also.
Bahahahaha I
What’s next? Rename Washington DC to Bowser Town?
They’re not Americans in any sense other than accident of birth. They have zero allegiance to America’s foundational principles, and are in fact openly hostile to them. The present war is not between “liberal” and “conservative” (whatever those even mean now, since both have been so distorted), but is instead between Americans and anti-Americans. The distinction is that stark. We are up against hordes of literal domestic enemies of the real United States of America. That’s why they keep calling us that, because they are trying to divert attention from the fact that they are the actual domestic enemies.
Just make the transition complete and put up a statue of Carl Marx.
Trump called it...
None dare call it colonization and democide.
Statue of Stalin to replace it?
I guess they will be tearing down Grant’s tomb as well.
No... but they could rename it ‘the Al Sharpton Bridge.’
New York City is hereby declared a terrorist organization!
NY’ers can give me ALL of their one-dollar bills, then. Cough it up, wokesters!!!!
Nope, he was white. That's all it takes.
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