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George Washington University political science professor slams 'disgraceful' removal of Thomas Jefferson statue from NYC's City Hall
2021-10-23
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Samuel Goodman, writing in Bari Weiss' Common Sense Substack newsletter, made the case in a piece titled 'What We Lose When We Lose Thomas Jefferson'

  • The statue, which had stood in the City Council chamber since 1915, is being removed and likely sent off somewhere by the New York Historical Society

  • Goodman argues that the statue's removal is separate from the removal of Confederate monuments across America and called the move 'disgraceful'

  • New York City Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus called the statue a monument to 'the disgusting and racist basis on which America was founded'

  • During a hearing Monday, the Public Design Commission voted to remove the statue before the end of the year

  • The request for its removal came from the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, led by outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife Charlene McCray
Related:
Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation: 2020-06-20 Hizzoner's missus to decide fate of NYC statues of Washington, Jefferson
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Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation: 2020-06-20 Hizzoner's missus to decide fate of NYC statues of Washington, Jefferson
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Posted by:Fred

#6  The Donx. New Newark. No Work. New B0rk. You Nork.
Posted by: Glaque Grumble3477   2021-10-23 22:01  

#5  Bronx = Latinx
Brooklyn = Sharpton
Queens = Queers
Manhattan = Womyn-Lovin'
Staten Island = Polar Bear Hunting Preserve
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-23 20:50  

#4  Could revert to New Amsterdam...oh, wait, never mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-10-23 20:09  

#3  New Wakanda
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-10-23 14:36  

#2  Floydville
Posted by: Warthog   2021-10-23 14:12  

#1  I am eagerly awaiting for the current crop of radical US Bolsheviks to pounce upon the namesake for the city and state of New York, the former Duke of York who later became James II, last Catholic king of England. From Wiki:
The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English mercantile (trading) company set up in 1660 by the royal Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa.[1] It was led by the Duke of York, who was the brother of Charles II and later took the throne as James II. It shipped more African slaves to the Americas than any other company in the history of the Atlantic slave trade.

I invite proposals for a politically correct new name for the city and state.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-10-23 13:39  

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