Columbus may have discovered America, but Obama destroyed it. And to the winner go the spoils.
Obama’s radical acolytes tore down Columbus monuments during the BLM hate riots while the city’s former mayor threatened Italian Americans and city officials if they tried restoring them.
“Get that f—— statue back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you fired,” Lightfoot allegedly yelled at a government lawyer who had tried to negotiate a deal with Italian-American groups to restore the statue..
“You make some kind of secret agreement with Italians. … You are out there stroking your d—- over the Columbus statue, I am trying to keep Chicago police officers from being shot and you are trying to get them shot,” Lightfoot ranted. “My d— is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest d— in Chicago.”
Lightfoot then convened a Chicago Monuments Project Advisory Committee which called for “artistic interventions” targeting statues of Lincoln, Franklin, Grant and Washington.
Lightfoot is history, but the agenda matches on with a proposal to rename a street named for the Great Explorer for the Great Destroyer.
Alderman Lamont Robinson introduced an ordinance during Wednesday’s City Council meeting to rename Columbus Drive as Barack Obama Drive.
But even as setup for this upcoming weekend’s Shamrock Shuffle is taking place along Columbus, controversy is already brewing, particularly among the city’s Italian American community, in honor of whom Columbus Drive was named during the 1933 World’s Fair.
“People have to understand: This is a slap in the face to my parents, my grandparents and those who came before us,” said Ron Onesti, with the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.
The debate comes as Italian American groups continue to litigate the 2020 removal of Christopher Columbus statues from Columbus Drive and two other locations around the city.
In July of 2020, two statues of Christopher Columbus were removed, following protests that grew out of the national outcry over the murder of George Floyd and fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
Onesti suggests South Greenwood Avenue, where the Obamas’ Chicago home is located, or Stony Island Avenue, where the Obama library is going up, as fitting alternatives for a name change.
“There are other options here, and we’re saying, ‘hey, let’s honor the 44th president together, a favorite son of Chicago, but let’s do it where it’s all inclusive and not offensive,'” Onesti said.
The whole point of ‘inclusivity’ is to exclude a whole bunch of people. Back in the day, Italians, like Jews and the Irish, were seen as a minority group to be defended against bigotry. But today they’re evil white people whose statues must be torn down and whose murder must be supported.
Obama doesn’t bear sole responsibility for this radicalization but he played a major role in mainstreaming it by transforming the meanings of some basic words. Like “inclusivity”.
But this will mean headlines like “3 shot, 1 killed in drive-by shooting on Obama Drive.”