Today’s blacklisted American: Judge orders Philadelphia to stop blacklisting Christopher Columbus
How Philadelphia wants Christopher Columbus honored
The modern dark age: A state judge has now ordered the city of Philadelphia to remove the plywood box that has covered its statue of Christopher Columbus for the past two years.
In her ruling, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said that if the city disagrees with the “message” the statue sends, it can add its own plaque with what it wants to convey. “More to the point, the City accepted the donation of the Columbus statue in 1876. It has a fiduciary duty to preserve that statue, which it designated an historic object in 2017. The Columbus statue is not City property as is, for example, a City snowblower,” the judge wrote.
On orders by the city’s Democratic Party mayor, Jim Kenny, the statue had been covered during the worst of the riots in 2020, with Kenny’s stated intention to remove it entirely at some point.
Kenney has said Columbus was venerated for centuries as an explorer but had a “much more infamous” history, enslaving Indigenous people and imposing punishments such as severing limbs or even death.
The absurdity of the left’s hatred of Columbus is illustrated in Kenney’s statement. No human is perfect, and Columbus was a man of his time. His specific wrongs (enslaving captured Indians) were far dwarfed by his great achievement of crossing the Atlantic fearlessly when everyone said it could not be done, thus inaugurating five hundred years of human exploration and renewal. Moreover, it is entirely wrong to assign many of the bad policies the Spanish and Portuguese instituted in the New World on Columbus, as he in the end had absolutely nothing to do with establishing those policies. He was first and foremost and explorer, and a truly great one at that.
The box was finally removed late last night.
I predict that the city will do little to protect the statue now that it is uncovered, and will enthusiastically look the other way when (not if) leftist terrorists move in to damage or topple it. You see, to the left, only one opinion or idea or history is allowed in a “free” society, the opinion or idea or history it agrees with.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
How Philadelphia wants Christopher Columbus honored
The modern dark age: A state judge has now ordered the city of Philadelphia to remove the plywood box that has covered its statue of Christopher Columbus for the past two years.
In her ruling, Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said that if the city disagrees with the “message” the statue sends, it can add its own plaque with what it wants to convey. “More to the point, the City accepted the donation of the Columbus statue in 1876. It has a fiduciary duty to preserve that statue, which it designated an historic object in 2017. The Columbus statue is not City property as is, for example, a City snowblower,” the judge wrote.
On orders by the city’s Democratic Party mayor, Jim Kenny, the statue had been covered during the worst of the riots in 2020, with Kenny’s stated intention to remove it entirely at some point.
Kenney has said Columbus was venerated for centuries as an explorer but had a “much more infamous” history, enslaving Indigenous people and imposing punishments such as severing limbs or even death.
The absurdity of the left’s hatred of Columbus is illustrated in Kenney’s statement. No human is perfect, and Columbus was a man of his time. His specific wrongs (enslaving captured Indians) were far dwarfed by his great achievement of crossing the Atlantic fearlessly when everyone said it could not be done, thus inaugurating five hundred years of human exploration and renewal. Moreover, it is entirely wrong to assign many of the bad policies the Spanish and Portuguese instituted in the New World on Columbus, as he in the end had absolutely nothing to do with establishing those policies. He was first and foremost and explorer, and a truly great one at that.
The box was finally removed late last night.
I predict that the city will do little to protect the statue now that it is uncovered, and will enthusiastically look the other way when (not if) leftist terrorists move in to damage or topple it. You see, to the left, only one opinion or idea or history is allowed in a “free” society, the opinion or idea or history it agrees with.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Also if anyone reads what Columbus actually did, he enslaved Caribs … for the international war crimes and genocides they were committing against the Arawaks. Up to and including cannibalism.
Let’s just say that if they take the statue down and put up a trendy new Caribbean restaurant, I’ll not hurry to eat there.
Considering the democrat-party is, was, and always has been, the party of slavery, maybe democrat mayor Jim Kenny should [action verb] himself, to atone for the sins of his ancestors.
It would save us the hassle of rendering him offshore.