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Another article explaining the why a little more.
National Park Service Plans to Remove William Penn Statue From Philadelphia Park
Submitted 9 months ago by OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.works to conservative@lemm.ee
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Are they going to change the state name too?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Pencilvania
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Archived version archive.ph/XRab5
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Welcome Park, though not necessarily the statue of Penn, has also been the site of some resentment among Native Americans. The plot had been given to the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations from the Iroquois Confederacy) in January 1755 by John Penn, William Penn’s grandson. In the 1700s, Native American groups often visited Philadelphia for diplomatic and trade meetings. They sometimes numbered in the hundreds and visited so frequently that John Penn asked the Provincial Council of Philadelphia to consider setting aside a piece of land for these gatherings. The delegations often refused to negotiate treaties until they could stand on their own ground and build a council fire.
"I anticipated a park in a natural pristine state. Like any other park, it would have trees, grass, water,” said Louise McDonald (Native name Wa’kerakátste), a Mohawk Bear Clan Mother from Akwesasne, N.Y. “I was frozen for a minute because I felt it had been choked and that it wasn’t a true representation of the original intentions of the space. It just seemed to be purposely buried with a cover-up narrative. There certainly seems to be a feeling of erasure intended to remove any spirit that would imply that we were once there.”
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This isn’t about revisionism or denying history.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
“And therefore, all friends and people, pluck down your images; I say, pluck them out of your houses, walls, and signs, or other places, that none of you be found imitators of his Creator, whom you should serve and worship; and not observe the idle lazy mind, that would go invent and make things like a Creator and Maker. . . .”
—George Fox, ca. 1670
Quakers were not big on statues. I bet old William would be ok with it.