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.
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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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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.