They are removing the William Penn statue in the name of inclusivity. The man founded the colony of Pennsylvania and was a powerful advocate of religious freedom and democracy.
“The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors.”
h/t KP
the Philadelphis Penitentiary was a humane kind of prison named after him . they had flush toilets before the white house. also grid streets with places you could get firefighting water and rounded turns to move firefighting equipment. Penn had witnessed the great fire of london
his hospital there had skylights to allow fresh air and natural light . a pioneer of health for the people
Stalin would be proud
Penn voters elected a brain dead (at the time) senator. To be fair, Trump gave them Dr. Oz instead of a vet as the option. Will this make Penn voters think about their options in November?
Will the American Taliban turn their sights on Mt. Rushmore?
Midgets/dwarves/little people on the shoulders of giants.
I was born and raised in western Pennsylvania. This will go over well with ordinary folk living there.
what , the homeless in the park??
Hey…what does this sound like?
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“On August 14, 1670, the Quaker meetinghouse in Gracechurch Street, London, having been padlocked by the authorities, William Penn preached in the street to several hundred persons. After the meetings, he and William Mead were arrested and imprisoned on a trumped-up charge of inciting a riot.”
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I have to give the FBI more credit for researching history. 😀
Welcome to Wokesylvania, home of Woke State Udiversity. Go for it, accuracy matters.
And have it replaced with Idols of George Floyd and Obama and replace IN GOD WE TRUST on our Coins and Currency with IN GAIA WE TRUST and Mt. Rushmore with Mao, Lenin Marx and Castro. There are no Democrats on Mt Rushmore and Greenpeace idiots got arrested unfurling that stupid Banner on it and got their tails in a wringer in Peru