{"id":876013,"date":"2021-10-13T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876013"},"modified":"2021-10-13T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:44:54","slug":"nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-banishes-thomas-jefferson-statue-from-city-hall-after-187-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-banishes-thomas-jefferson-statue-from-city-hall-after-187-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Banishes Thomas Jefferson Statue From City Hall After 187 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-banishes-thomas-jefferson-statue-from-city-hall-after-187-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and a Founding Father, from City Hall after nearly two centuries.<\/p>\n<p>New York City\u2019s Public Design Commission, each member of which is appointed by the mayor, is planning to loan the Jefferson statue to the New York Historical Society. The commission has listed the statue\u2019s loan under its \u201cconsent\u201d agenda, meaning the decision to remove the statue will not be open for public debate, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/de-blasio-booting-founding-father-jefferson-from-city-hall\/\">The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe de Blasio administration will continue the progressive war on history as he, himself, fades away into a portrait on a City Hall wall,\u201d Republican Councilman Joe Borelli told the Post. \u201cI hope he is at least gone a couple hundred years before someone cancels him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and progressives sitting on New York\u2019s city council have pushed for the statue\u2019s banishment for over a year. Democratic Councilwoman Debi Rose said last year that Jefferson\u2019s ownership of slaves justifies his bust\u2019s expulsion from City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis words are \u2018all men are created equal\u2019 but they were not matched by his action, which included the ability to sell, buy, mortgage and lease human beings,\u201d Rose <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/18\/pols-call-on-de-blasio-to-boot-thomas-jefferson-from-city-hall\/\">said<\/a> in June 2020. Her comments came weeks after the court-adjudicated murder of George Floyd, which set off protests and riots across the country over alleged systemic racism and calls to \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rose signed a petition along with four other council members for de Blasio to remove Jefferson\u2019s statue from City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe believed black people to be racially inferior, said black Americans and white Americans could not live peacefully side by side and he fathered as many as six children with a woman he enslaved,\u201d Rose said of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. \u201cI believe the New York City Council should neither ignore nor glorify this dark side of American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Jefferson\u2019s statue is under attack in New York City, Floyd has been memorialized in a bust unveiled in Brooklyn in June. Last week, the Floyd statue was defaced with paint. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/george-floyd-statue-defaced-with-paint-in-new-york-city\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>A statue that featured a bronze bust of George Floyd was defaced Sunday morning with a gray, water-based paint.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CNN&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2021\/10\/03\/us\/george-floyd-bust-defaced-confront-art\/index.html\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that the statue was part of Confront Art\u2019s \u201cSEEINJUSTICE\u201d exhibition, which also featured two other statues, all of which were opened to the public last Friday evening. The Floyd statue was defaced with<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and a Founding Father, from City Hall after nearly two centuries.New York City\u2019s Public Design Commission, each member of which is appointed by the mayor, is planning to loan the Jefferson statue to the New York Historical Society. The commission has listed the statue\u2019s loan under its \u201cconsent\u201d agenda, meaning the decision to remove the statue will not be open for public debate, according to The New York Post.\u201cThe de Blasio administration will continue the progressive war on history as he, himself, fades away into a portrait on a City Hall wall,\u201d Republican Councilman Joe Borelli told the Post. \u201cI hope he is at least gone a couple hundred years before someone cancels him.\u201dDemocrats and progressives sitting on New York\u2019s city council have pushed for the statue\u2019s banishment for over a year. Democratic Councilwoman Debi Rose said last year that Jefferson\u2019s ownership of slaves justifies his bust\u2019s expulsion from City Hall.\u201cHis words are \u2018all men are created equal\u2019 but they were not matched by his action, which included the ability to sell, buy, mortgage and lease human beings,\u201d Rose said in June 2020. Her comments came weeks after the court-adjudicated murder of George Floyd, which set off protests and riots across the country over alleged systemic racism and calls to \u201cdefund the police.\u201dRose signed a petition along with four other council members for de Blasio to remove Jefferson\u2019s statue from City Hall.\u201cHe believed black people to be racially inferior, said black Americans and white Americans could not live peacefully side by side and he fathered as many as six children with a woman he enslaved,\u201d Rose said of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence. \u201cI believe the New York City Council should neither ignore nor glorify this dark side of American history.\u201dAs Jefferson\u2019s statue is under attack in New York City, Floyd has been memorialized in a bust unveiled in Brooklyn in June. Last week, the Floyd statue was defaced with paint. As The Daily Wire reported:A statue that featured a bronze bust of George Floyd was defaced Sunday morning with a gray, water-based paint.CNN\u00a0reported\u00a0that the statue was part of Confront Art\u2019s \u201cSEEINJUSTICE\u201d exhibition, which also featured two other statues, all of which were opened to the public last Friday evening. The Floyd statue was defaced with paint around 10 a.m. Sunday morning, according to the New York Police Department.\u201cThere\u2019s video footage police were able to ascertain,\u201d detective Frances Sammon told CNN. \u201cThey show a male ducking down under one of the statues. He then mixes something together, and, as he skates away, he throws a container of paint at the statue.\u201dFloyd died in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020. He died after being arrested for allegedly passing fake currency at a convenience store. Prior to the incident, Floyd was arrested nine previous times, largely on drug and theft charges. In one instance, Floyd held a woman at gunpoint while his accomplices robbed her home.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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