A House Democrat plans to propose a series of bills that seek to remove statues that she says reflect America's 'shameful' past during this Black History Month.
, the District of Columbia’s delegate to the House of Representatives, is preparing a series of bills aimed at removing historical statutes as a way of marking Black History Month.
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., is pushing to remove a series of statues that she says honor people who should not be honored. "This prominent location in the Nation's capital, right outside of the White House, should never have honored a man who was an unabashed racist, owned enslaved people and authorized the genocide ofNorton’s bill would require the secretary of the interior to remove the statue from Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., and donate it to a museum, which it can be considered with"appropriate historical context.
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