City Council’s statue yank: Letters to the Editor — Sept. 21, 2023

The Issue: The City Council’s plan to remove art that features early American figures from city property

Like most Democrat-run cities, New York has become a cesspool (“City Council’s history lessen,” Sept. 19).

As the city sinks int♒o oblivion, leftist members o♐f the City Council consistently prove that they are unqualified, incompetent buffoons.

Their latest ploy is to🎃 remove any mention of the likes of the great President George Washington, Christopher Co﷽lumbus, John Jay and Peter Stuyvesant from city properties.

These men ෴were not𒈔 perfect, but they helped America along its way to greatness.

How does a small minority of biased leftisꦿts get to erase them fr▨om history?

When are patriotic Ameri𝓡cans going to say enough is enough?

The time is now.

Frank Perry

Morristown, NJ

George Orwell in “1984” foretold the 🌄rewriting of history.

“The Party” slogan was: “Whওo controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present contro🍬ls the past.”

The💙 City Council, by attempting to erase these founders, risks erasing the very foundation of America’s democracy, the Constitution and America’s history.

The Ci🌱ty Council’s intentions reflect sheer arrogance and 𒈔very dangerous ignorance.

Thomas Birnbaum

Manhattan

When lo🌜oking for historical villains, as New York City seems to be doing, they are so far overlooking one of the most outrageous protectors and practitioners of slavery.

After being formed in the 1830s, the Democratic Party advocated continuing and advancing the spread of economic slavery so strongly that it resulted in a horrible Civil War in the 1860s.

When that effort failed, they transformed into “Dixiecrats” who used terror to enforceℱ strict racial separation and hostility for 100 years, into the 1960s.

So maybe the City Council can start purging those who still hold allegiance to this long-time, historically per𓆉nicious political organization.

Jay Sylvestor

Yonkers

The recent decision of the City Council to look into removing historical statues of our Founding Fathersꦜ makes you realize how out-of-touch Democrats are.

People from our past lived according to the norms of their times,🙈 and like everybody else, did great things an𓃲d some bad things.

Rather than just learn from history, the𝓡 left wants to remove it.

And rathꦐer than deal with the real problems we are having now such as crime, open borders and declining standard of living, the progressive left focuses on actions that do nothing to make Americܫan lives better.

It’s a movement🐷 that only exists to d𝄹ecrease our standard of living and to put up straw men, while real problems go unchecked.

Mindy Rader

New City

As the foremost bastion of waste and inefficiency, the City Council now has nothin🐟g better to do than to discuss the removal of statues of early figures in American history.

Oꦓne woꦕuld think that there would be serious concerns about agency budget cuts, necessitated by the mounting expenses of services for asylum seekers.

H🍸ow about a discussion on effectively regulating child-care services or reducing ram🌌pant crime?

Sadly, taxpaying citiz🥂ens are fu꧑nding this circus.

Yakov Moshe

Brooklyn

The radical left City Council now wants to put statues of Was꧑hington, Thomas Jefferson and John Jay on the chopping bꦆlock.

This is only the beginning.

They will find otherܫ ways to eliminate other historical figures from our history books.

The Democratic Party with its to𝔍xic narrative and politically correct noಌnsense will not cease its vitriol against America.

Its members༺ are bent on be🧸smirching our Founding Fathers.

Instead of focusing on the city’s myriad problꦐems, they wo💎uld rather remove statues.

America corrected its mistakes, an🤡d 600,000 died defeating slavery.

The City Council lefties continue to rub th💛e raw racial wounds of yesterday with their feckless and divisive prop♌osals.

Joseph Valente

Staten Island

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