{"id":118701,"date":"2021-10-21T10:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118701"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:43:45","slug":"nyc-removing-thomas-jefferson-statue-from-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118701","title":{"rendered":"NYC removing Thomas Jefferson statue from City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More revisionist history and erasure from the tolerant left. This time New York City is following in the footsteps of places like Madison, WI and voted unanimously to remove a nearly 200 year old statue of author of the Declaration of Independence, third US President Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n

Breitbart reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Public art officials in New York City voted unanimously earlier this week to remove a 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, from the city council chamber at City Hall.<\/p>\n

The decision is based on the fact that Jefferson owned slaves. That fact is not mentioned in his biography posted on the White House website, which reads in part:<\/p>\n

Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the \u201csilent member\u201d of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.<\/p>\n

Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABC\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on the move, based exclusively on slavery and race:<\/p>\n

The City Council\u2019s Black, Latino, and Asian caucus released a statement on the statue\u2019s removal, citing a letter to Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration owes it to the more than five million New Yorkers of color our members \u2013 past, present and future \u2013 represent, to resolve that the individuals memorialized within the confines of our People\u2019s House be reflective not only of the best traditions of our city\u2019s history and its diversity but unquestionable character,\u201d it read, in part.<\/p>\n

Not everyone supports removing the statue, and it has become an issue in the New York City mayoral race. [Mayoral] candidates Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams both shared their thoughts on the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDo we suddenly wipe out the images, the markings, the names of all those great patriots because they were slaveholders and slave holding was quite common at that time?\u201d Sliwa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a number of appropriate figures to honor in our seat of government who are more directly meaningful to our people and are more reflective of our city\u2019s history than Thomas Jefferson,\u201d Adams said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Jefferson did indeed own slaves, it was rumored during his time and confirmed centuries later that, he literally loved them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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