The war on history has come for Thomas Jefferson.
On Monday, the New York City Council unanimously voted to remove a Jefferson statue from New York City Hall, though it hasn’t yet decided where to put it. The statue has been there for nearly a century and was originally created to celebrate religious liberty.
The effort to remove it met no resistance from Mayor Bill de Blasio. In fact, the whole thing was driven by the historical art commission he launched in 2017.
To get an idea of what this commission was about, the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant was under consideration for being labeled a “hate symbol.”
At this suggestion, de Blasio again had nothing to say.
What leadership.
In just a few years we’ve gone from seeing Confederate statues being taken down to Founding Fathers and even Abraham Lincoln becoming ripe for destruction. And this isn’t the end. It was never about the Confederacy.
Jefferson, whatever his personal foibles, was the author of the greatest anti-slavery document in modern history. The Declaration of Independence, which contains the famous line, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal,” not only became a rallying cry to abolish slavery in America. It was an inspiration to anti-slavery movements around the globe.
Today, the institution of slavery has disappeared nearly everywhere, despite being with almost every human civilization through all human history.
I got news for ya. With what’s happening in this country right now, a statue is the least of our worries.
when they go too far RIOTS will happen !!!!!! Americans are FED UP !!!!!
That sucks!
Are they going to replace it with a statue of a drug addicted thug?