NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call
as symbols of hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.
Not exact matches
Only the mass media can turn the cross into a
symbol of hate when it was meant
as a
symbol of hope and ultimate sacrifice.
A Jewish activist group is now demanding de Blasio scrub all traces
of the anti-Semitic Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant from city property — even Stuyvesant High School —
as part
of his campaign to rid the city
of «
symbols or
hate.»
Last year, the Commission was formed to conduct a review
of all city statues that could be construed
as «
symbols of hate.»
Governor Andrew Cuomo conceived
of the memorial for the victims in the Pulse massacre to «stand
as an international
symbol against ignorance,
hate, bigotry, and gun violence,» read the executive order that created the commission.
The 90 - day review
of «all
symbols of hate» began in August following the removal
of several monuments to controversial historical figures such
as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
The incident comes two weeks after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to conduct a 90 - day review
of all «
symbols of hate» located on city property, specifically mentioning a marker in Lower Manhattan commemorating Nazi collaborator Henri Philippe Petain
as among those that he wants taken down.
A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor
as «
symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.
Mayor de Blasio's already dubious bid to review «all
symbols of hate» on city property descended into farce Tuesday
as the commission he named to do the dirty work opted...
This installment begins with Katniss and Peeta on a victory tour to the starving masses, trotted out
as living
symbols of everything they
hate by cold President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
First vilified
as killers in life and fable, then romanticized
as symbols of freedom and environmental purity, wolves stir up love -
hate relationships that may have little or nothing to do with their actual character and value to the precarious balance
of nature.
He
hated the title that Radio City gave his mural for the men's smoking lounge (soon after losing his first wife), Men Without Women, but he filled it with
symbols of masculinity, such
as a pipe and barber's pole.
The mirror can be seen
as a
symbol for the new shiny world
of Dubai, the way the western world loves to
hate it and the spectacle that we are all while surrounding it looking at ourselves through its existence.