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| Petition seeks to rename Roosevelt Island, calls FDR ‘racist’ |
| 2017-08-28 |
[NYPOST] Roosevelt Island should be renamed because of FDR’s "racist" decision to send Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II, a new petition demands. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- who led the nation through the Great Depression and WWII and told Americans they had "nothing to fear but fear itself" -- is nevertheless unworthy of having his name on the 147-acre island that is home to 9,700 New Yorkers, those behind the petition claim. "To add injury to insult, the name was taken away from the Native American people who were slaughtered by the American settlers," said Margarita L., who started the petition. The petition, which has a goal of 1,000 signatures, was posted Aug. 19 on the online petition site Care2Petitions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Works for me. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-08-28 15:23 |
| #2 There's a pretty new statue in DC they can dislodge. Go for it! Who's going to stop you? Roosevelt Island should be renamed because of FDR’s "racist" decision to send Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II, a new petition demands. BTW, ignore the 1995 release of the Japanese diplomatic traffic which indicated they had friends in the communities. Or that they only moved those who resided near 90% of American aircraft production sites, then in Seattle and the LA basin. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-28 08:21 |
| #1 ...Stopped clock, and all that. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-08-28 05:35 |