p class="storytext">BR... N.Y. — The new Brooklyn borough president says "diversity" is making him take down a portrait of "old white man" George Washington that's hung in the office for years. Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz said he will probably hang a portrait of a black person or a woman in his office in place of the country's first president, while moving the Father of Our Country elsewhere in Borough Hall. "I respect history . . . but there has to be a recognition that this is 2002," Markowitz said. "There's not one picture of a person of color, not one kid, not ...
11275324 posted on 1/16/02 1:25 PM central by rightwingextremist1776
I recently heard a Professor from a Black Studies Program at a FL state university who spouted the same argument as Barron....it seems to be the vogue now to discredit & destroy Revolutionary heroes.