Posted on 02/18/2021 1:37:08 AM PST by PBRCat
Mayor Lori Lightfoot is confronting the “hard truths of Chicago’s racial history,” launching a public process to review the fate of 41 statues and other monuments, including some of former presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley.
Reasons for making the list include promoting narratives of white supremacy; presenting an inaccurate or demeaning portrayal of Native Americans; celebrating people with connections to slavery, genocide or racist acts; or “presenting selective, over-simplified, one-sided views of history.”
Besides five statutes of Lincoln, others on the list include the General John Logan Monument in Grant Park; the General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument at Belmont and Lake Shore Drive; a statue of Benjamin Franklin in Lincoln Park; the Haymarket Riot Monument/ Police Memorial at 1300 W. Jackson Blvd; the Italo Balbo Monument in Burnham Park; and the Jean Baptiste Beaubien plaque at the Chicago Cultural Center.
ightfoot called the project a “powerful opportunity for us to come together as a city to assess the many monuments and memorials across our neighborhoods and communities — to face our history and what and how we memorialize that history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Now that Second City Cop has been gotten rid of, they’re feeling their oats.
Gonna need to change the state song Lori
“Not without thy wonderous story, Illinois, Illinois...O the record of thy years Abraham Lincolns name appears, Grant and Logan and our tears...
Keep you friend close and your enemies closer. The cesspool has overflowed the mentally ill are in high places forcing their rules upon us and they will never win
More people are dying in Chicago than in all of our forward areas combined (true before Trump brought home the troops) every year.
Kids aren’t in school, and teachers won’t go back. Deficit at nightmare proportions.
Let’s have a look at statues.
“The problem with Chicago is that the city government - .......particularly...... the police department — aren’t doing their jobs.”
Seriously? Lets see you jump in a car and roll up in “communerty” with folks throwing rocks and bottles at you filming away to jam you up. Make an arrest and then find out you are suspended and sued for millions....Lightfuerher and her cadres are going after pollleeecce cause dey rayccciiisss and all dat....... To quote a famous poster on purged Second City Cop blog: Stay fetal policing -roll up after the shooting. look.....laugh......leave....
truth
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Consider what Lincoln unleashed.
Lincoln should have deported the slaves to their ancestors homelands.
It’s strange that people who never accomplished anything positive are passing judgment on those who have achieved great things in a lot of cases.
Lincoln should have deported the slaves to their ancestors homelands.
I guess the question is; would these people bitching about their life here feel better if they were left in Africa.
I don’t think so.
There is nothing truthful about what you are doing, mayor.
Oh, seriously? (roll eyes) World class projection...
Why deal in the past? What about today’s problems: unwed mothers, single parent families, rejection of education, drugs, crime, etc.
Orwell erred only in that he thought society would rebel against authoritarianism when in fact today's world is embracing it. "1984'' wasn't science fiction or prophecy. "1984'' was a warning about the dangers of unhinged, unchallenged and unrestrained power, the pursuit of it and the maintaining of it. It was a warning that went largely unheeded.
If you think it is bad now. Wait until next month. It will be worse.
Now we’re living the movie almost
Or so it seems
This seems more dystopic to me.
I’m actually going to watch that now.
Thank you for the full quote - all too true, unfortunately
I’m saving it this time (along with the shorter version I found)
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