DC Panel Calls for Removing or Relocating Washington Monument

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting the perspective from brietbart.com.
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This is probably linked to the US House passing a bill for statehood for Washington, D.C. which went nowhere inn the Senate. The District of Columbia was intended to be the capitol of the USA and neutral in that political sense. A lot has changed since the emancipation of the slaves and the relocation of many ex-slaves who were then freemen and freewomen moved north into cities in Maryland and the D.C. A distinct irony is that Maryland was a slave state by choice.

District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions, or “DC FACES” committee report recommended:
Using the Mayor’s position on the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission, [to] recommend the Federal government remove, relocate, or contextualize the following assets:

1. Christopher Columbus – Columbus Fountain (federal)
2. Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin Statue (federal)
3. Andrew Jackson – Andrew Jackson Statue (federal)
4. Thomas Jefferson – Jefferson Memorial (federal)
5. George Mason – George Mason Memorial (federal)
6. Francis Griffith Newlands – Newlands Memorial Fountain (federal)
7. Albert Pike – Albert Pike Statue (federal)
8. George Washington – Washington Monument, George Washington Statue (federal)"


DC panel targets Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument.
A local government advisory commission in Washington, D.C. has recommended sweeping name changes for schools, government buildings, and public spaces in the nation’s capital, and is urging city’s Mayor to call on the federal government to possibly ‘remove, relocate, or contextualize’ a group of federal memorials - including the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument.
“The Working Group’s research revealed that more than 70% of assets named in the District of Columbia are named for white men, many of whom were not District residents,” the ‘DC Faces’ report stated.
The review was started in the wake of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, which included clashes between demonstrators and police near the White House.
The report singled out a series of schools for name changes, including past U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, and Woodrow Wilson, along with other luminaries like Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Scott Key.
The recommendations quickly attracted the attention of the White House, and Communications Director Alyssa Farah.
On Tuesday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser did not specifically address any of the details in the report.
“I look forward to reviewing and advancing their recommendations,” the Mayor said on Twitter.
Along with schools, parks, statues and monuments, the report also raised questions about the names of 78 streets in the nation’s capital, ten neighborhoods, and two libraries.
The ideas quickly drew scorn from Republicans in the nation’s capital.
“That sound you hear is smart Democratic operatives banging their heads against the wall because this is what we call a softball for the other side,” said GOP strategist Brian Walsh.
“This is not parody,” tweeted Nathan Brand of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
“What a joke, except it’s not funny anymore,” said Spencer Brown of Young Americans for Freedom.
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That DC panel should get their heads out of their rears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First the Washington monument is a national monument, on federal property, D.C. was never meant to be a city, it was meant to be the capital.