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Some state Dems welcome statue purges, but Pennsylvania Dems have made a point of going the other way.
Biden’s National Park Service recently announced that it was going to trash a statue of William Penn on the site of his former home.
The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design firm Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is located on the site of William Penn’s home, the Slate Roof House, and is named for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia.
The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.
The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
There was conservative outrage, which is not surprising, but there was also rapid intervention by local Dems.
“My team has been in contact with the Biden Administration throughout the day to correct this decision. I’m pleased Welcome Park will remain the rightful home of this William Penn statue — right here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Penn founded,” Gov. Josh Shapiro announced.
Sen. Bob Casey also assured everyone that the statue would stay.
The National Park Service is covering its fundament by claiming that the announcement was premature and had not been properly vetted which is bureaucratic-speak for “the boss is embarrassed and disavows all responsibility”.
Philly has a lot of historic statues, buildings, etc, and before the National Park Service decided to vandalize it, Welcome Park was not too widely known even to locals. But Pennsylvania is a swing state going into an election and Dems have tried to build a more normal reputation.
Sen. Fetterman has worked hard to build an image of a moderate. So did Gov. Josh Shapiro. Is any of it real? Probably not.
A lot of lefty Dems pretended to be moderates until states tilted their way and then they let their freak flag fly.
An election year is not the time to make the Dems look like radicals and so Gov. Shapiro quickly leaned on Biden and told him that moderates and swing voters matter more than wokes right now.
Of course that just means that the statue will be removed in 2025 or 2028 or at some later date. The Left never forgets and never lets go of anything.
What the sudden reversal does show is that Dems are afraid of the political fallout from wokeness.
That “freak flag fly’ expression made my day! (Are you really old enough to remember that? Nah, you just cant be). Back in the day it meant a man missed a few barber appointments, smoked a joint and maybe eccentrically did his own thing. And who was he harming anyway?
We had absolutely no idea!
What if six turned out to be nine? I didn’t discover Henderix until I was about 9, and he’d been gone about 5 years. “Wave your freak flag high, hey,” was one of my favorite lines out of that song.
Hendrix was cool. He joined the army and was ready to go to war but the stinky hippies talked him out of it. The poor guy choked to death on his own vomit, though.
His version of “Hey Joe” is a great song and so is “Voodoo Child, Slight Return.” He wore cool hats, too.
It was ‘the announcement was premature’, but only because someone wanted to jump the gun (i.e. timetable) for some likely personal urge of – fill in the blank for yourself.
The city is the headquarters for Friends General Conference, and hearing about this attempt with the statue, I looked at their website. Among an load of the usual racial stuff of the far left was the expression ‘global majority’. In other words all non POC (persons of color) must be back to the back. Frankly – silenced.
Maybe, there remains a few members of the old Quaker families in place who spoke up for Penn. We will never know. Maybe, there was a few who thought – this might be bad for the tourist market. We will never know. But, Penn’s days are numbered.
My Pemberton ancestors were friends of Penn. Another ancestor (totally unknown to history) came over due to Penn’s tour of the German low-countries seeking people to settle his colony. In these connections – I exist because of William Penn. He was good and bad, but he was far better than the lot of these critical race pushers. I have always remembered what he said to English jury facing him in a legal case against him. The judge wanted a guilty ruling, and the juries didn’t just go along to get along. “You are Englishmen – stand on your rights.”
This racial woke movement is evil. It lies as it seeks to destroy all based on skin color.
I have Quaker ancestors who settled in Rhode Island in the 1600s. The cemetery where they are buried does not have real grave markers because the Friends’ religious practice was against “showy” displays! In other words, you probably won’t get too many supporters of these original European settlers stepping up to prevent the NPS and other governmental authorities from wrecking the site anyway. All very sad. With the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution coming up in a couple of years expect more of this sort of downplaying/rewriting “patriotic” history.
I too have Rhode Island roots, and you are correct about today’s Quakers in the area. They aren’t the same as ‘those’ Friends of the past. And yes – your are correct about the gravestones. Back in the day, Friends generally did not have gravestones due to the idea of plainness. It wasn’t done everywhere, but I have never seen a ‘fancy’ gravestones for Quakers from, say, the American Civil War back. My 2nd great grandparents followed the practice.
Regardless – disgusting to the pit of the stomach how the New Left ate up the Society of Friends.
Oh – I am from the Robert Stanton of Rhode Island. Along with Jeremiah Clarke. 🙂
How about removing the Statue of Che in Central Park? He was very Anti-American Castro bootlicker
There’s a park named after gay Che here in San Jose. And a statue dedicated to him. It makes me sick. Damned commie.
The R’s message to Pennsylvania VOTERS should be “don’t be fooled by his temporary delay in the destruction of YOUR HERITAGE – as soon as they take office William Penn and the Slate House are GONE to the TRASH”!! You’d think people would have seen personally what the DEMOcrats (HYPOCRITES) promise vs what they deliver! And they have gone even MORE mad these last three years! Now that would be the message if the “STUPID” party would just work to lose that moniker!
Let’s remove the statue of Obama in Rapid City. There’s a real traitor to humanity.
And he’s gay. There’s nothing wrong with that but guys should admit which way they swing. In his case, very small. He has no bulge.
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Remove the Quetzalcoatl Idol in Sourhtn California its a Pagan Idol dedicated to the Aztecs who sacrificed people to their False Gods
Maybe someone could remove these ugly-ass twisted hunks of metal “sculptures” that our municipality seems to think are art. They are depressing and meaningless-but I guess that is the point.
Conservatives try to preserve the art of others, leftists try to destroy the art of others. Leftists have to erase all else, because just about anything is better than they can do, and people can’t have examples and reminders that things can be better. That’s why their existence is predicated on the elimination of all others. Islam is the same..
They can’t remove a statue of Penn after whom the state is named, until they come up with a new name for the state. Duh?
Why do so many of the “Native Americans” in those old paintings look white? Look at the four on the right in that painting above. They’re way whiter than I am and I’m a full on honkey. And the guy second to the left is darker than the Indians.
And I notice there’s a black guy baling cotton or whatever in the far left corner of the painting. That’s racist. According to lefties, anyway.