OK, Let It Be a White Statue

Newsday ^ | January 17, 2002 | Clarence Page

[sarcasm]

I GUESS ALL that national unity and good feeling that followed the tragedies of Sept. 11 was just too good to last.

A planned memorial to honor the 343 firefighters who died at the World Trade Center has sparked a firestorm of its own.

Let's just say that some people don't like the way it recolors history.

The proposed 19-foot bronze statue is based on the now-famous news photo of three firemen raising an American flag over the rubble at Ground Zero.

[xm177e2]

Maybe so, but when it comes to issues like racial diversity, the historical is political.

They politicize everything, which gives them license to change it all until it suits them.

[TaxPayer2000]

it appeared to me they were all gray, everything was gray, even the flag was gray

[Jean S]

Maybe so, but when it comes to issues like racial diversity, the historical is political.

Huh?

[piasa]

So, let history speak for itself. To heck with political correctness. New York firefighters want a memorial like the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial? Fine. The white faces on that re-creation of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima have always reminded some of us of how far we Americans have come from the segregated military of those days.

Proof positive that this guy knows not of what he speaks. The Iwo Jima memorial is not all white. One guy was an American indian. I wonder how overjoyed he'd be if we altered all of the Tuscogee airmen and the buffalo soldier images and replaced them with a single massive multicolored group including whites?

[nopardons]

The " WHITE " faces on the Iwo statue ?

I always knew that Clarence Page was an idioy; however, I didn't know that he was a complete and utter, 100 % idiot and racists.

One of those brave, dead, Marine heros of Iwo Jima, was an American Indian ! That statue, made and erected BEfORE PC racist bigottry was full blowm is of the actual men who raised that flag. Historical events should NOT be rewritten, just so some jive race hustlers can feel better about themselves. Oh, and Clarence should NOT take Mark Green's word for anything. A lot of the FDNY is indeed nepotistic and racially rewarding. It's just that it has NOT " favored " whites , in N.Y.C.!

[nopardons]

BTW, this needed a " BARF ALERT", dear, BIG TIME ! : -)

[Nitro]

Like it or not, white people built this country!

Actually I am of Irish descent and my people were hung more often than blacks!!

As a matter of fact as I understand it, the largest mass hanging was of 9 Irishmen in Boston!!

It was the end result of a total NINA policy!!

[kattracks]

The white faces on that re-creation of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima have always reminded some of us of how far we Americans have come from the segregated military of those days.

Clarance should have done some research before writing this. One of the "white" faces on the Iwo Jima memorial belongs to a Native American.

[dixie sass]

Bigotry and revisionism of history in real time. Somehow this whle debacle seems to cheapen the memories of those who died. Why can't people let history stand as it is and not what they want it to be, whether it is real time or thirty, fifty, sixty or hundred years ago?

[SubMareener]

Even better: The white faces on that re-creation of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima have always reminded some of us of how far we Americans have come from the segregated military of those days. An all-white fire department memorial can remind us of how far we still have to go.

Racism is alive and well and living in liberal commentators!

Page missed the Native American in the Iwo Jima memorial.

Page missed the fact that it is not about race! If it were, then I would look at an NBA game as say, "this reminds me of how far we still have to go!"

[BARGE]

Why do bed-wetting Liberals like Clarence Page have to butt in and try to change reality?

[piasa]

Here's more on those 'white guys' on the Iwo Jima memorial. Many were dirt poor, all from mixed backgrounds, not exactly 'perfect' or 'privileged' in childhood or life.

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS ON THE IWO JIMA STATUE?

[BlackbirdSST]

One of the "white" faces on the Iwo Jima memorial belongs to a Native American. I believe that would be Ira Hayes. Blackbird.

[piasa]

Get a load of this.

[GeorgeVIII]

They politicize everything, which gives them license to change it all until it suits them.

Well then, I want Hobbits raising the flag then...dang-nabbit!~

Box office rules, Hobbits Raise Flag at WTC...Fiction is King!

[piasa]

Page, like libs everywhere, live in dread of the day when all citizens regardless of color, come to think of themselves as 100% American.

[TomGuy]

So, let history speak for itself. To heck with political correctness.

Amen...
Except this author is trying to be sarcastic with that remark...still
Amen...Let history speak for itself. To heck with political correctness.!!!

[tm61]

"heartwarming" , give me a freakin break, revising history with a lie is not warm and fuzzy, no matter how the liberals try to dress it up.