DC mayor has a problem with Ben Franklin and the Washington Monument

Published September 1, 2020 7:49pm ET



Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has taken a break from her busy schedule of ignoring violent anti-police protests in her own city to figure out which problematic historical figures need to disappear from the public square.

Bowser has tasked a committee with determining which monuments need to be relocated, removed, or contextualized and which buildings and parks need to be renamed to reflect better the “values” that “DC residents hold dear.” The committee, District of Columbia Facilities and Commemorative Expressions, which was created on July 15 amid the George Floyd protests, recommends that the federal government “remove, relocate, or contextualize” the following statues and memorials.

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