{"id":58902,"date":"2020-09-02T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dc-task-force-targets-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-dozens-more\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:33:00","slug":"dc-task-force-targets-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-dozens-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dc-task-force-targets-washington-monument-jefferson-memorial-dozens-more\/","title":{"rendered":"#DC task force targets Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, dozens more"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#DC task force targets Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, dozens more<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 2, 2020 |<\/span> 12:33pm <\/p>\n

\n A task force formed by Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has called for dozens of landmarks in the nation\u2019s capital to be \u201cremoved, renamed or contextualized\u201d over ties to slavery or racism \u2014 among them the Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur decision-making prism focused on key disqualifying histories, including participation in slavery, systemic racism, mistreatment of, or actions that suppressed equality for, persons of color, women and LGBTQ communities and violation of the DC Human Right Act,\u201d read the 24-page report issued Tuesday by the District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions group, or DC FACES.<\/p>\n

Aided by the input of thousands of DC residents, the panel scoured everything from monuments to public schools to playgrounds to street and neighborhood names for potentially problematic pasts.<\/p>\n

While some locations were simply recommended for a renaming \u2014 including schools named for Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Graham Bell and Francis Scott Key, who penned the poem that became the basis for The Star-Spangled Banner \u2014 others were pegged for potentially harsher sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel recommended that officials \u201cremove, relocate or contextualize\u201d the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial, as well as statues of other famous figures in American history including Benjamin Franklin.<\/p>\n

But Bowser \u2014 even if she were inclined to agree with the panel\u2019s recommendations \u2014 is limited in her capacity to do anything about those monuments, because they sit on federal land.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as President Trump is in the White House, the mayor\u2019s irresponsible recommendations will go absolutely nowhere, and as the mayor of our Nation\u2019s capital city \u2014 a city that belongs to the American people \u2014 she ought to be ashamed for even suggesting them for consideration,\u201d White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Trump has pushed back strongly against attacks on monuments across America, and decried cancel culture as an erasure of the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Bowser convened the panel over the summer as protests raged nationwide following the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man killed beneath the knee of a white police officer.<\/p>\n

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