Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday she “fully expects” the statue of Christopher Columbus to be returned to its pedestal in Grant Park, but not before a security plan is in place to prevent a repeat of the 2020 debacle that left dozens of ambushed police officers injured.
Istanbul used to be called Constantinople, and the Hagia Sophia was a cathedral before it was converted into a mosque. Lori and her progressives don’t see your history as their history, just as the Turks didn’t adopt any of the Byzantine’s former residents or history either. But they’ll take your land, your wealth, your institutions, they just have no use for YOU or YOUR history. Ironically, the expulsion/migration of the non-Turks out of Istanbul supercharged the burgeoning Renaissance as the refugees brought with them hundreds of thousands of ancient and classical texts to Europe for the printing presses to print… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Fully Expects? Hmm….Sounds like it’s not her decision, or waiting for guidance from above.
Returned after being painted black and holding a cabin boy’s hand.
Ms. Lightfoot’s war on historic figures should be the topic, not the reinstallation of a single statue.
Erasing history is a mistake; where else can we learn about what has happened before? Sad.
Istanbul used to be called Constantinople, and the Hagia Sophia was a cathedral before it was converted into a mosque. Lori and her progressives don’t see your history as their history, just as the Turks didn’t adopt any of the Byzantine’s former residents or history either. But they’ll take your land, your wealth, your institutions, they just have no use for YOU or YOUR history. Ironically, the expulsion/migration of the non-Turks out of Istanbul supercharged the burgeoning Renaissance as the refugees brought with them hundreds of thousands of ancient and classical texts to Europe for the printing presses to print… Read more »
Thanks for the history lesson and application – I knew the Hagia Sophia story, but didn’t apply it to the invading Wokes. History repeats itself.
I believe we, the awake but not woke, represent the majority of Americans. Guess we’ll have an indication in November.