Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.
The commission also attempted to vote on the statue’s removal without a public hearing on the controversial move until The Post revealed the plan.
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall
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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
Art handlers packed up a statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall.nypost.com
You can't? They just did!Fuck these revisionists. You can’t change the past by ignoring it. You can’t just broad strokes brush everything with a racist light.
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.
The commission also attempted to vote on the statue’s removal without a public hearing on the controversial move until The Post revealed the plan.
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall
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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
Art handlers packed up a statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall.nypost.com