{"id":895048,"date":"2021-10-18T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=895048"},"modified":"2021-10-18T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T21:44:33","slug":"incredibly-racist-new-york-city-commission-votes-to-remove-200-year-old-thomas-jefferson-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incredibly-racist-new-york-city-commission-votes-to-remove-200-year-old-thomas-jefferson-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Incredibly Racist\u2019: New York City Commission Votes To Remove 200-Year-Old Thomas Jefferson Statue"},"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%2Fincredibly-racist-new-york-city-commission-votes-to-remove-200-year-old-thomas-jefferson-statue%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=895048&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\u2019s Public Design Commission has decided to remove a nearly two-hundred-year-old statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from NYC\u2019s City Hall on Monday by a unanimous vote.<\/p>\n<p>Local ABC affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/thomas-jefferson-city-council-new-york-save-our-statue\/11139323\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThe statue, which dates back to 1833, was expected to go on \u2018long term loan\u2019 to the New-York Historical Society by the end of the year, where it would be included in educational exhibits with the proper historical context that likely will include discussion of Jefferson\u2019s slave ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People have been pushing for the Founding Father and primary author of the Declaration of Independence removal from the City Council chambers in City Hall since June of 2020. Due to discussions over cost, a new destination has not yet been determined for the statue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\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 the city\u2019s council\u2019s Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One New York assemblyman, who first attempted to remove the statue of the nation\u2019s third president from the chamber back in 2001, called Jefferson a \u201cslaveholding pedophile.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow the hell can people see as a hero someone who had hundreds of enslaved Africans, someone who was a racist and who said we were inferior and someone who was a slaveholding pedophile?\u201d Charles Barron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/18\/nyregion\/thomas-jefferson-statue-ny-city-council.html\">said<\/a> according to The New York Times. \u201cFor him to be canonized in a statue is incredible \u2014 incredibly racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many are upset with the decision to remove the historic statue, which has been in the city chambers for 188 years.<\/p>\n<p>\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 NYC Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-banishes-thomas-jefferson-statue-from-city-hall-after-187-years\">reported<\/a> by The Daily Wire, members of the city\u2019s Public Design Commission are all appointed by the mayor.&nbsp;A spokesman for the mayor said that the city would still have jurisdiction over the statue, but that they would work to \u201cprovide valuable historical context.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city would still own the plaster model, and the historical society would include it in educational exhibits and provide valuable historical context,\u201d the spokesman said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, Republican City council member Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s Public Design Commission has decided to remove a nearly two-hundred-year-old statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from NYC\u2019s City Hall on Monday by a unanimous vote.Local ABC affiliate reported, \u201cThe statue, which dates back to 1833, was expected to go on \u2018long term loan\u2019 to the New-York Historical Society by the end of the year, where it would be included in educational exhibits with the proper historical context that likely will include discussion of Jefferson\u2019s slave ownership.\u201dPeople have been pushing for the Founding Father and primary author of the Declaration of Independence removal from the City Council chambers in City Hall since June of 2020. Due to discussions over cost, a new destination has not yet been determined for the statue.\u00a0\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 the city\u2019s council\u2019s Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus said in a statement.\u00a0One New York assemblyman, who first attempted to remove the statue of the nation\u2019s third president from the chamber back in 2001, called Jefferson a \u201cslaveholding pedophile.\u201d\u00a0\u201cHow the hell can people see as a hero someone who had hundreds of enslaved Africans, someone who was a racist and who said we were inferior and someone who was a slaveholding pedophile?\u201d Charles Barron said according to The New York Times. \u201cFor him to be canonized in a statue is incredible \u2014 incredibly racist.\u201dMany are upset with the decision to remove the historic statue, which has been in the city chambers for 188 years.\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 NYC Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said.\u00a0As previously reported by The Daily Wire, members of the city\u2019s Public Design Commission are all appointed by the mayor.\u00a0A spokesman for the mayor said that the city would still have jurisdiction over the statue, but that they would work to \u201cprovide valuable historical context.\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe city would still own the plaster model, and the historical society would include it in educational exhibits and provide valuable historical context,\u201d the spokesman said.\u00a0Before the vote, Republican City council member Joe Borelli accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of waging a \u201cprogressive war on history.\u201d\u00a0\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 the Staten Island member told the New York Post.\u00a0Originally, the statue was commissioned to celebrate Jefferson\u2019s promotion of religious liberty in 1833 by Jewish Navy commodore Uriah P. Levy.\u00a0\u201cI consider Thomas Jefferson to be one of the greatest men in history,\u201d Levy once said, \u201cthe author of the Declaration and an absolute democrat. He serves as an inspiration to millions of Americans.\u201dEarlier this year, New York\u2019s Public Design also voted to remove Spanish-American war hero, explorer, and president Theodore Roosevelt from outside of the American Museum of Natural History.\u00a0The 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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