Forward by Jennifer Rae Vliet – It is going to be taken down, it is not going to be taken down, it is going to be taken down, it isn’t going to be taken down…this is the typical headline banter surrounding any of our targeted historical men in statue form especially since the stolen election of 2020.
It has nearly ended in the removal every time so try not to be emotionally jerked reading the one piece below on the status.
Here are two columns one of which is not only a reminder of Penn’s contribution to America but the exposing of the lie that Native Americans were in support of this across the board. It has been quite the opposite. LIES LIES and more lies.
Officials Reverse Plans to Remove William Penn Statue from a Philadelphia Park
SmithsonianMag.com
A statue of Pennsylvania founder William Penn will remain standing in Philadelphia after all.
Last Friday, the National Park Service (NPS) announced plans to remove the statue, as well as a model of Penn’s original home, from Welcome Park, a small paved area located a few blocks from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.
That decision was met with swift criticism, which eventually reached President Joe Biden and the Pennsylvania governor’s office. This week, the NPS reversed course, declaring it would leave the statue in place.
Completed in 1982, the park is located at the site of Penn’s former home. Its name comes from the ship Penn traveled aboard on his journey across the Atlantic in 1682. Today, it’s part of Independence National Historical Park, which is managed by the park service. CONTINUE READING THIS PIECE>>>>
Native Americans weren’t on board with Biden’s failed plan to remove William Penn statue
Had never demanded its removal in the first place
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William Penn’s 1682 treaty with the Lenape; painting by Benjamin West 1771
Arjun Singh
Daily Caller News Foundation
Native American groups did not support the removal of a statute of William Penn from Welcome Park in Philadelphia prior to the Biden administration’s now-abandoned effort to do so.
William Penn was an English Quaker who moved to the American Colonies in 1682 and founded the British colony of Pennsylvania, during which time he maintained friendly relations with Native Americans of the Lenape tribe. The National Parks Service recently canceled plans to remove Penn’s statute from federal property at Welcome Park, in Philadelphia’s downtown historic district, amid strong political and public backlash against the plan, though representatives for a native group told the Associated Press that they had never demanded its removal in the first place.
“William Penn was an ally of the Shawnee,” said Ben Barnes, the chief of the Shawnee Tribe based in Oklahoma, who were historically displaced to the state, to the AP. “As long as he lived, he kept his promise. As long as he was able to speak on behalf of the colony in western Pennsylvania, the Shawnees had a home there….Of all the terrible human beings that inflicted tragedy upon native peoples, I don’t put William Penn in that category.”
The Park Service announced its decision to remove the statute in conjunction with rehabilitation efforts at Welcome Park, to “provide a more welcoming, accurate and inclusive experience for visitors.” The plan also envisioned an “expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia.”
That decision was met with widespread ridicule from Pennsylvanians, who view William Penn’s legacy favorably. “[It is] another sad example of the left in this country scraping the bottom of the barrel of wokeism to advance an extreme ideology and a nonsensical view of history,” said state House Minority Leader Brian Cutler, a Republican from Lancaster County, to the AP.
The issue prompted the intervention of Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania to protect the statute’s presence. “My team has been in contact with the Biden Administration throughout the day to correct this decision. I’m pleased Welcome Park will remain the rightful home of this William Penn statue — right here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Penn founded,” he wrote on Twitter, now known as X, after the NPS reversed its decision.
Consultation with Native American tribes is required of the Park Service before making changes to national monuments and historic sites concerning their history, according to the National Historic Presentation Act. “We do still speak highly of William Penn,” said Jeremy Johnson, the director of cultural education for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, to the AP. “[We] were really just focusing on our culture and our history and that, in a way, he was an important part of it.”
The Park Service did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. READ MORE>>>>