re: George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key....

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That’s great!! We should also get rid of the National Forests and Parks that he designated.

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Wasn't just parks.

Before he was president he led a reform of the NYPD to make it a professional organization.

He implemented a civil service system in NY to eliminate political patronage.

He also was responsible for breaking up the big monopolies that ran much of the business in this country and went after government corruption at all level as President. He's also responsible for the FDA.

His stance on immigration was that anyone that wanted to come here should be welcome as long as they embraced being an American fully.

He also happened to be friends with Booker T Washington and caused quite a stir by having him to the White House for dinner.

So, we've got a turn of the 20th century president that was a friend of the environment, a friend of small business, enacted food safety reforms, led law enforcement reform, was pro-immigration, and was vastly ahead of his time on race relations.

But no, his statue's got to come down because, well why?

Because he built the Panama canal? I guess they don't know that the US paid something like $15 billion 2020 dollars for the rights to build that canal? Do they know he resisted European interference in central american affairs?

They neither know nor care. He's an old white guy so he must be bad and his statue must come down.