In its continued attempts to erase American history, the Biden administration was preparing to tear down a statue of William Penn in Philadelphia.
However, late Monday, the National Park Service reversed its decision to remove a famous statue of William Penn from Philadelphia’s Welcome Park. (Updated Story Here)
For those who may not know, Penn is the 17th-century English religious leader who founded both Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
The Penn monument, which sits on the grounds of his 17th-century home, was set to demolished as part of a “rehabilitation” plan for the park that honors his contribution to U.S. history.
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Penn’s “rehabilitation” by the Biden administration would have dispatched him to the dustbin of history while retelling his story from the perspective of Native Americans.
The National Park Service explained the project in a press release issued late Friday afternoon:
“The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,” the release said.
“The reimagined Welcome Park maintains certain aspects of the original design such as the street grid, the rivers and the east wall while adding a new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering space with circular benches.”
“The Penn statue and Slate Roof house model will be removed and not reinstalled,” the NPS added. “In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will be installed on the south site wall to replace the Penn timeline.”
The park is named for the Welcome, the ship that ferried Penn to the New World in 1682.
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King Charles II named Pennsylvania for Penn’s a father, an admiral in the English navy. When the king granted Penn the charter for the land that would become Pennsylvania, Penn, according to a biographer, proclaimed that he believed God would “bless [the land] and make it the seed of a nation.”
As recounted by The Daily Mail, which reported on the NPS plan on Sunday, Penn “was notorious for his amicable relations with the Native tribes of the region.”
Penn, according to a history of America’s treaties with Native American tribes, granted the Lenape tribe he acquired the land from rights to use the land for hunting, fishing, and gathering.
The NPA will accept public comments on the project between Jan. 8 and Jan. 21. Those comments can be made at https://parkplanning.nps.gov.
Some critics are already making their thoughts known on X.
In response to the NPS post about the project, which had gathered more than 1,700 comments by Sunday evening, one X user wrote, You are radical communists. You can’t rewrite history. Shame on you.
Another added, “No foreign ‘enemy’ hates us like our own government. Why don’t you just build a statue of whatever criminal filth you and your pets decide is the next civil rights hero?”
One more noted, “This makes absolutely no sense. I am a native Philly guy and Penn was ‘woke’ for his time. He supported and paid the Indian tribes. You are literally crushing a pioneering Leader out of intellectual laziness to actually understand history.”
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