Posted on 07/16/2024 4:26:36 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to remove the statue of former President George Washington from the hallway outside the mayor’s office on the fifth floor of City Hall in a move that, a top aide said Tuesday, has nothing to do with the first president’s role as a slave owner.
Ronnie Reese, Johnson’s communications director, said the statue “is being removed from the hallway outside the mayor’s office as we make updates to some areas around City Hall.”
Reese said there is no timetable yet for the removal. He wouldn’t say if it would be moved to a new home or put in storage. He also didn’t say what would replace it or provide an estimate of the cost of the changes. The statue has been there since 1984.
According to the website maintained by Mount Vernon, Washington’s ancestral home, “317 men, women and children were enslaved at Mount Vernon’s five farms, which covered 8,000 acres."
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Perhaps St. George of Fentanyl would be nice.
That wouldn’t surprise me.
I am glad he is doing this. This idiot doesn’t deserve to have Washington’s image anywhere near him.
Trump said this was going to happen.
That was in 2020.
He was called a conspiracy theorist.
To be replaced with Saints Gentle Giant, George of Fentanyl, Trayvon of Skittles, and the Holy Lightworker of Kenya.
It’s not his city hall
Here’s an update, Brandon,
Go #@$% yourself.
An anatomically impossible act or not.
Is Hizz Honor going to put himself back in chains?
Liberals want slavery. They are just mad that they weren’t the ones that could be slave owners.
This is part of the Great Replacement that Ramaswammy spoke about.
In order to take down Western Civ you need to eliminate any memory of heros, role models, and statesmen. Any statues, relics stories of any kind.
As governor, Nimrata Haley was right in there with the Confederate flag and Robert E Lee statues; she became a hero of the anti American left. That is why she is radioactive in SC and always will be.
Statewide financial activism could help to prevent this nonsense.
Representative Government is a legacy of Slavery.
That’s the rationale they’ll use to impose a “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Of course, they’ll dress it up in flowery Playskool terms that the Dunning-Kruger citizenry will fall for.
I would rather see the Mayor REMOVED & the statue left alone
Yes, good point. But any American who would remove Washington should also be removed.
Don’t get me wrong. I think the District of Columbia should be renamed to Gomorrah.
The statue would do a better job.
You know, like Stalingrad.
Yep....those shootings will end immediately.
Johnson=pavement ape racist
Let’s go, Brandon!
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