Newton Falls, Ohio has declared itself a haven for toppled and removed statues in the midst of continued protests
Newton Falls, Ohio, population about 4,500, may have invited in a big controversy after the city manager issued an Independence Day proclamation declaring the community a “Statuary Sanctuary City,” that will welcome “statues rejected by other cities,” such as those being toppled by activists seeking an end to racial discrimination....
The document is described as a “proclamation declaring that Newton Falls is a Statuary Sanctuary City” that will provide a new home to cast off carvings honoring figures from the past, many of whom are now facing scrutiny from protesters around the globe as part of a renewed focus on racism. The document offers specific “amnesty” to nine specific historical figures including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Columbus, and does not include leaders of the Confederacy, whose statues are seen as glorifying treason and are a “hateful history of white supremacy and black subjugation,” according toThe statues, if any arrive, could be kept on public or private land, said Lynch, who did not think they would face any danger of destruction from the “God fearing” residents of...
The document concedes that “great leaders of our country and western civilization,” were “flawed in many ways,” but noted that they “have risen to great achievement such as the founding of our nation [and] the ending of slavery.
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