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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from NYC after 187 years
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:40 pm
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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
NY POST
Thomas Jefferson is about to no longer be in the room where it happens.
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall where its resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.
About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.
They then lowered the massive structure down the stairs leading to the building’s first-floor rotunda with a pulley system and ushered the Founding Father out the back door.
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The commission also attempted to vote on the statue’s removal without a public hearing on the controversial move until The Post revealed the plan.
“Removing a monument without a public conversation about why it’s happening is useless. New Yorkers all need to talk about who we want to honor and why,” said Erin Thompson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who authored the forthcoming book “Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments.
This post was edited on 11/22/21 at 7:42 pm
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Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:41 pm to goofball
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:41 pm to goofball
I can’t wait for a new movement in 20 years in which all these old statues are put back up where they belong.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:42 pm to Tigerbait357
Yep. Gotta turn the US into another country.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:42 pm to goofball
So stupid
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:42 pm to Tigerbait357
Will that stop the riots on the west coast?
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:42 pm to goofball
And people who know how communism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution worked are still being hyperbolic, are we?
This post was edited on 11/22/21 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:43 pm to goofball
Out with the old history, in with the new history.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:43 pm to fallguy_1978
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So stupid
No it isn’t. It’s with purpose. It’s to make you forget your heritage. Little by little.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:45 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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I can’t wait for a new movement in 20 years in which all these old statues are put back up where they belong.
Won't happen unless a lot of bullets fly first.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:46 pm to goofball
I swear I read this as a “ Justin Jefferson statue removed from NYC after 187 yards”
Either way leave the statue
Either way leave the statue
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:46 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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can’t wait for a new movement in 20 years in which all these old statues are put back up where they belong.
That shite ain't happening in the "Reeeeeee" on social media days. All people do is bitch and moan then go back to their lives.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:47 pm to goofball
The good people of this country need to revolt
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:48 pm to goofball
I can't wait until they replace it with a statue of Eric Garner.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:49 pm to goofball
Mitch already doing work
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:49 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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I can’t wait for a new movement in 20 years in which all these old statues are put back up where they belong.
For every one taken down, put up 10.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:51 pm to goofball
Thomas Jefferson is one the smartest human beings to walk this planet. Even JFK admired Jefferson’s intellect, and made the famous quote when hosting a group of Nobel winners when he said:
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Removing anything of his is desecration. He wrote one of the most famous pieces of literature in human history at the age of 33, and it’s stood the test of time for 245 years. Lock up whoever allowed this.
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House-- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Removing anything of his is desecration. He wrote one of the most famous pieces of literature in human history at the age of 33, and it’s stood the test of time for 245 years. Lock up whoever allowed this.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:53 pm to Gator5220
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Out with the old history, in with the new history.
Out with the actual history, in with the contrived history.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:55 pm to Rhino5
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Lock up whoever allowed this.
Lock up every voter in New York?
Actually sounds like a plan.
Posted on 11/22/21 at 7:55 pm to NimbleCat
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Out with the old history
In with the 1619 project.
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