Posted on 06/19/2020 11:09:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
First lady Chirlane McCray will put statues and structures honoring historic figures tainted by slavery — including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — under the microscope as part of a new “Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday.
Hizzoner’s move comes a day after five city lawmakers — including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson — sent a letter requesting the statue of Jefferson be removed from the council’s chamber, as leaders across the city and nation struggle to respond to weeks of protests over racism that followed the death of George Floyd.
“This is exactly the kind of thing that this new commissions needs to examine,” de Blasio told reporters during his morning briefing, announcing his wife’s latest assignment. “I think it is the time to evaluate the entire look and feel of this city and a commission that’s focused on justice and reconciliation can really think about a bigger approach.
”McCray previously led a commission to build statues of historical women figures, which came under intense criticism after it snubbed sainted Italian-American nun Mother Cabrini.
The reconciliation commission is the second task force that McCray has been named to in recent weeks after Hizzoner selected her to co-chair a panel examining how racial inequities helped to fuel the coronavirus outbreak.
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Critics have slammed City Hall for using the high profile posts as a way to boost McCray’s profile as she eyes a possible run for the Brooklyn Borough presidency in 2021.
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Agreed! Except that the “flawed” comment adds nothing. You are, after all, writing of the least flawed American.
“...build statues of historical women figures, which came under intense criticism after it snubbed sainted Italian-American nun Mother Cabrini...”
We are in 1793 Paris, the past is being destroyed and the new order is being laid down. In Paris they changed the numbers of days in a week, the names of the days too. Any tribute to history was to be destroyed; the church, the royalty....even cards were redesigned to make sure you had no kings, queens or jacks. We are and will see the same thing here. Any one not virtue signaling to the revolution will be destroyed. BLM are marxist revolutionist wolves in in sheep clothing
I never saw this coming.
Until the disaster at Appomattox.
The George Washington statue of his first inaugural address at the site of nation’s first Federal Hall in lower Manhattan better not be pulled down. It’s been standing in that spot since 1883.
Ah, a wolf getting to decide the fate of the chickens.
When you elect RACIST Democrats, this is what happens!
Lemme guess . . .
Adolf and Eva Braun DeBlasio have an incurable case of wannabe dictators. NYC would be wise to remove them ASAP before the boxcars and wooden soap arrive.
Real New Yorkers have already moved to Florida.
The mayor’s closet advisor...
$850M is a bunch of money.
Use StartPage to search “Chirlane McCray missing funds.”
Nope. They’ll just keep on voting those idiots in and then complain about them. It’s the New York way.
New Yorkers, help me out. Has the mayor’s wife always been referred to as “first lady,” or is she the first?
“Need to rename New York”
End the madness now. We need to petition to change the name of the NY Yankees. Let’s see how that one will fly.
Well, he did claim that Dan was owned by his wife, not him, but we know how society was 150 years ago. Got some work out of that one.
You are talking about William Jones. He apparently couldn’t ge much work out of him, and ended up freeing him.
Now, Sherman was a more efficient manager when he was building up what became LSU. In his own words, “the lazy negroes have to be driven to bring in wood...I would hire whites, but suppose it would be advisable and good policy to submit to the blacks for the present.”
She may be the first, but she's no lady.
NO! He was not. Stop the slander!
Who elected her to do anything? Why should one person......any person have the power to unilaterally decide which statues stay or go or names be changed, let a lone a racist lying thief?
History not your strong suit?
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