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This is too unbelievable to be true, but unfortunately it has become a seemingly permanent movement in our country in the past few years.
Under the Biden administration, the National Park Service announced that the William Penn statue in a Philadelphia park that commemorates his founding of the state of Pennsylvania will be removed.
This statue is located in Ben's former home, and will be replaced with more “holistic” items.
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You must be kidding
The National Park Service claims the removal process is about “rehabilitation.”
Rehabilitation of what exactly?
Fox News reported that the “rehabilitation” proposal for Welcome Park aims to “provide a more welcoming, accurate and inclusive visitor experience,” the NPS said in a press release.
The story added:
It “includes an expanded interpretation of Philadelphia's Native American history,” and was developed in collaboration with representatives from the Haudenosaunee Tribe, the Delaware Nation, the Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
The park is named after the ship “Hello” that Penn took to Philadelphia in 1682. The park was established 300 years later.
So now they're canceling William Penn because he's evil, or racist, or white…or whatever.
Seriously, do they mean this guy?
“Leave the statue in its rightful place.”
Social media wasn't having it. “Leave the statue where it belongs,” one X user wrote in response to the Independence National Historical Park tweet.
Online disdain for the idea persists.
One user pointed out that the name of the park where Ben's statue is located is called “Welcome Park.”
Unless you're European American, it seems.
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Keep the statue. Biden trench.
Think the founder of the country is no longer welcome?
This step taken by the left to erase history and get rid of the memory of many historical figures does not deprive future generations of knowing their past, but rather distorts it in the present.
William Penn was a leader of whom all Pennsylvanians and Americans should be proud.
He should be commemorated in the eventual state he founded during the colonial era.
There are many examples of how Joe Biden has been completely captured by the far left of his party.
This is just the latest.
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