{"id":876247,"date":"2021-10-13T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=876247"},"modified":"2021-10-13T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:44:00","slug":"report-bill-de-blasio-getting-rid-of-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-bill-de-blasio-getting-rid-of-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Bill De Blasio Getting Rid Of Thomas Jefferson Statue In City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Freport-bill-de-blasio-getting-rid-of-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-city-hall%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=876247&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 Mayor Bill de Blasio will remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers, where it has stood for the past 187 years, according to The New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>The statue, gifted to the city by naval officer Uriah Phillips Levy in 1834, will be given to the New-York Historical Society on an \u201cindefinite\u201d loan, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/de-blasio-booting-founding-father-jefferson-from-city-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Post<\/a> reported. The loan of the statue was listed on the Public Design Commission\u2019s \u201cconsent\u201d agenda Monday, according to the outlet. The commission will vote on the statue\u2019s removal after hearing comments from the public.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7301188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7301188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bertrand L. Taylor III, a member of the Monticello Cabinet of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, takes photographs of the statue of Thomas Jefferson after the 69th annual Jefferson Memorial Ceremony to commemorate Jefferson\u2019s 269th Birthday April 13, 2012 at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The consent designation prevents any public debate or discussion regarding the statue.<\/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 City Councilman Joe Borelli told the Post, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/roosevelt-statue-remove-museum-natural-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Teddy Roosevelt Statue To Be Removed From Outside American Museum Of Natural History Over Complaints Of \u2018Racism,\u2019 \u2018Colonialism\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of Borelli\u2019s colleagues, however, have been longtime advocates of the statue\u2019s relocation, formally asking <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/03\/bill-de-blasio-vaccine-mandate-new-york-passport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">de Blasio<\/a> to remove it in June.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Councilwoman Debi Rose, who signed the letter requesting the statue\u2019s expulsion along with five other council members, stated that Jefferson \u201cbelieved 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 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/18\/pols-call-on-de-blasio-to-boot-thomas-jefferson-from-city-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much about Thomas Jefferson and his own personal writings, memoirs about how he treated his slaves, his family members and things of that nature and how he perceived African Americans and slaves \u2014 that they lacked intelligence, that they were not to assimilate into society,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/05\/nikki-haley-democrats-believe-america-barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democratic<\/a> Councilman I. Daneek Miller told the Post. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/12\/christopher-columbus-statue-marconi-plaza-philadelphia-removal-george-floyd-protests-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Christopher Columbus Statue In Philadelphia To Be Removed Because It Attracts Violence)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miller expects the statue to be gone by Oct. 21, the next full meeting of the City Council, according to the Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers, where it has stood for the past 187 years, according to The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}