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The city’s Cultural Affairs Committee has demanded the eviction of George Washington and Christopher Columbus and others from public spaces because of links to slavery, along with the establishment of a reparations task force.
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The Committee plans to remove any public statue or work of art that ‘depicts a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity’.
Dozens of prominent statues across the city are at risk including those depicting Thomas Jefferson and former governor Peter Stuyvesant.
Anti-racism training would be introduced for contractors and city employees, and a task force would ‘consider the impact of slavery and past injustices for African Americans in New York City and reparations for such injustices’.
‘Explanatory plaques’ would be installed next to any statue not removed and on schools named after them.
Does that mean that they'll also rename "Washington Square Park"?
With the migrant crisis and all the other issues this city is facing, isn't it great to hear that people are focusing on the important stuff?
Don’t forget to take down statues and paintings of this homo phob.
Yup MLK falls into the category of the left to be removed. But they dont follow history, and don’t realize he needs to go. https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/...y-teen-advice/
My question though is. Who do we replace the statues with?? What great people fill their shoes? Social justice warriors from the 80s and 90s? People that will never remember? What an S-show this is becoming.
the only thing i take away from this is that the country is just less white these days. like, if you ask me i couldn't care less about these people/figures, but i'm sure some or a lot of the white folks do and if they had the numbers there'd probably be some sort of pushback.
Anyone that made money selling, buying or reaping from the work of slaves in modern times should be held accountable and having a statue of them is a no-no.
However, that's in modern times since they live or lived with modern morals under which falls the slavery is evil/wrong/unethical stance.
These men? I know it sounds cliche, but they lived in a different time when slavery wasn't looked as evil or wrong. Even blacks had slaves back then in the 13 colonies and later in the USA, so did many Native Americans. In fact, the Bible mentions slavery and how to treat the slaves (who were not Africans, in fact the word slaves derives from Slavics, the original slave people during the Roman Empire and that's not counting the slavery that existed among the Native Americans, the Asians, the Africans, etc). As we all know, the Bible is thousands of years old.
Removing statues of Washington, Columbus, Jefferson and others is quite dumb. It shows not the bright side of the modern people that decide to take them down, but the dumb side to apply to men of a different era the cultural values and morals of today.
What if in the future it will be seen immoral for women to wear earrings and a dress? Take down the statue of every woman with an earring and/or a dress?
What if wearing make up is seen as wrong? Rip apart every painting with women wearing lipsticks, eye shadow, fake lashes, color contacts, mascara, fake hair color?
What if in the future it's wrong to have marxist/communist/socialist ideas? Take down the statues of all the woke people? Give me a break!
Last edited by AntonioR; 09-21-2023 at 08:43 PM..
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