New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would be in favor of re-examining if the city seal holds up to contemporary scrutiny.
“It’s the kind of thing a commission should look at carefully and decide if it still makes sense for the 21st century,” de Blasio said Monday at his daily news conference.
A city commission selected the seal in 1914 to unite all five boroughs under one flag and seal.
Joe Baker, the co-founder and executive director of the Lenape Center, says the Native American man on the seal is “cartoonish” and that the seal ignores the history of violence and destruction inflicted on indigenous people by settlers.
“It has the little Dutchman and the little Indian, and everyone is standing there in a very erect posture with the eagle above,” said Baker. “And the Indian has two eagle feathers and the breechcloth.”
The seal features a Dutch settler holding a rope with a loop tied at the end and a Native American man wearing a loincloth holding a bow standing beside a crest. The crest features beavers and barrels to signify the region’s history with the fur trade.
The mayor did not outline specific steps to the re-examination or reinvention of the seal.
(AP)
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Another case of erasing history. The product of ignorance furthering ignorance.
But then we know that Diblasio is a socialist idiot who in truth should always be pictures with dunce cap on his head.
What an idiot.
The seal features a Dutch settler holding a rope with a loop tied at the end
No, it does not. That is not a loop, it’s a stone. That’s what makes the rope hang straight down.
total crackpot
Can’t this evil clown find something important to do with the resources? How about funding police to do the work they are hired to do? Can’t wait for this rosho to be out of office.
Oh. Because there is absolutely nothing else for him to be busy with right now than deciding if the seal holds up to this centuries standards. Thanks all who voted in this loonybin!
idiocy has NO LIMITS!!!
We’re all aware that the pandemic is a major issue.
We’re all aware that protestings and lootings are a major issue.
We’re all aware that the downturn of the economy is a major issue.
We’re all aware that rise in crime and gun violence in NYC is a major issue.
None of us are aware that the NY seal is in jeopardy.
Only the blasted de blastio who buries his head in the sand (in the best case scenario) can dig up something so irrelevant when the city is burning. May he R.I.P.