Will The Left Rename America?

. . . And New York, Pennsylvania, California as well as Washington D.C.?
by Daniel Greenfield: Austin’s Equity Office has recommended renaming the Texas metropolis because of Stephen F. Austin's alleged views on slavery. But why halt at simply renaming Austin when Amerigo Vespucci took as well as sold slaves.

Austin, Texas is named afterwards Stephen F. Austin, but America is named afterwards Amerigo Vespucci.

New York City has been on its ain anti-history binge, demoting the statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ as well as fierce out plaques memorializing Robert E. Lee attached to a tree that he had in 1 trial planted, but it’s got bigger problems. The metropolis is named afterwards King James II whose Royal African Company branded thousands of slaves amongst DY for the Duke of York.

And New York’s problems don’t terminate there. Its Bronx borough is named afterwards Jonas Bronck, who was probable killed inward an Indian raid. Queens is named afterwards the married adult woman of King Charles II (James’ brother) whose hubby was also quite active inward the slave trade. New York is total of places named afterwards Charlie as well as his relatives, similar Richmond County, as well as the metropolis as well as the province would both have got to live renamed.

So would South as well as North Carolina, named afterwards Charles I, as well as Maryland, named afterwards his wife, who had authorized a merchandise inward African slaves. The Maryland charter was received past times Cecil Calvert, the mo Lord Baltimore, whose household unit of measurement owned slaves. Anne Arundel County is named afterwards Cecil's wife.

New Bailiwick of Jersey was named past times George Carteret nether a grant from Charles II. Carteret was connected to the African slave merchandise through the Royal African Company. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 number of areas inward New Bailiwick of Jersey are named afterwards him as well as his family. That includes the metropolis of Elizabeth, New Jersey, named afterwards Carteret’s wife.

Royal names are a occupation that bedevils fifty-fifty the leftist parts of the country.

Prince George’s County is a reliable Dem expanse inward Maryland populated to a greater extent than ofttimes than non past times African-Americans. And it’s 1 the wealthiest dark areas inward the country. But it’s named afterwards Prince George of Denmark. What’s a Danish prince doing inward Maryland? George was married to Queen Anne. Anne’s extensive shares inward the South Sea Company as well as his formal piece of work every bit High Lord Admiral tied him to the slave trade.
Virginia as well as (West Virginia) are named afterwards Elizabeth I who authorized a merchandise inward slaves as well as at to the lowest degree 1 of whose ships carried slaves. Delaware is named afterwards Thomas West, tertiary Baron De La Warr, who served every bit governor of Virginia. His tenure inward component subdivision predated the importation of African slaves but, was electrical current amongst the usage of indentured servants as well as Indian slaves. Louisiana is named afterwards Louis XIV, the Sunday King, whose Code Noir (Black Code) gear upwardly out the parameters of slavery.

But leaving behind royals doesn’t help. William Penn, the Quaker as well as liberal piece of work model afterwards whom Pennsylvania is named, owned slaves. Nor does heading due west offering whatever escape from history.

Over inward California, Comandante General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s yell rests on the metropolis of Vallejo, that of his married adult woman on the metropolis of Benicia. He was also the founding virile somebody bring upwardly of Sonoma as well as San Francisco was also allegedly nearly named afterwards his wife. Vallejo relied on Indian slave task to hold his ranch as well as oversaw an Indian slave task system. (Vallejo was also responsible for naming Marin County.)

California itself is appropriately plenty named afterwards a fictional character, Queen Calafia, who was both dark as well as a slave owner. West Coast political correctness becomes fifty-fifty to a greater extent than confusing every bit nosotros caput upwardly north. Washington is apparently named afterwards a slave owner, but what virtually Seattle? It’s named afterwards Chief Seattle, an American-Indian leader, environmentalist icon as well as a slave owner. (Slave ownership past times Indian tribes was non uncommon as well as has led to debates as well as lawsuits over tribal membership.)

But dorsum inward California, its leftist metropolis has an fifty-fifty bigger problem. Berkeley is named afterwards the Irish Gaelic empiricist George Berkeley. Berkeley was non entirely a slave owner, but a vigorous advocate for the enslavement of Africans as well as Indians. His yell has touched off contention at Yale as well as UC Berkeley.

Denver is named afterwards James W. Denver, whose tenures every bit Commissioner of Indian Affairs as well as every bit Territorial Governor of Kansas during the scrap betwixt pro as well as anti-slavery forces were controversial. The same would live truthful of anyone involved inward politics at the time, but the entire anti-history displace is animated past times a refusal to run across things inward whatever shade other than dark or white.

So nosotros tin can showtime off past times renaming New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, California, Washington, as well as Maryland. That’s 11 states.

Not to cite the yell of the entire country.

And we’ll have got to rename Berkeley, New York City, Seattle, Marin County, Austin, Elizabeth as well as thousands of other cities, town as well as county names all across the breadth of the United States.

Or nosotros tin can halt the insanity right now.

The left starts its civilization wars amongst wedge issues. It began amongst the statues of Confederate generals. But if this goes on, it’s going to terminate amongst the renaming of cities, of states as well as and then finally the renaming of the entire U.S.A. of America.

These are the stakes.

Either nosotros halt the left’s onrush on history or nosotros lose our country. Every fourth dimension a statue is taken down, a schoolhouse is renamed, a edifice is vandalized, a vacation is abolished, nosotros displace 1 pace closer to the lastly undoing of our history. We should non live afraid of the truth. And the truth is that history is complex.

Judging the past times past the introduce is its ain cast of cultural appropriation. Long afterwards a revolution against the British Crown, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, New York as well as many others hold imperial names non because Americans have got whatever allegiance or honour for those dead rulers, but because these places are a component subdivision of our history. As are the Indian tribes, the French, the Castilian as well as all those others too.

Names are non necessarily a cast of respect. Identity is, to a greater extent than importantly, a cast of memory.

The cultural revolutions of the left hope to purify history past times purging it. But that Stalinist solution is a lie. History cannot live purified, entirely learned from. We are all the descendants of flawed heroes. And nosotros tin can hope to uncovering the truth of our heroism through our flaws, non past times the low-cal of the mass burner’s fire.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 hundred nations were plunged into dystopian horrors inward search of the garden path to the left’s utopia. That’s all that the left’s rituals of purification as well as mortification of history, the vandalism of statues as well as facts, offering America. And it is America. Not Marxville, Leninstadt or Maostan. The flawed explorers, generals, as well as nobles whose names our cities as well as states comport are far ameliorate than the monsters of the left.

The American Revolution, different the French, was based non on a murderous search for leftist revolutionary purity, but on accepting our faults as well as flaws piece trying to yet alive every bit our best selves. Those who search for a ameliorate futurity past times destroying the past times volition displace on to destroying the present.

Our selection is clear.

Reject the left or rename America.
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Daniel Greenfield is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a New York author focuses on Islamic terrorism as well as the radical left. David Horowitz is a Contributing Author of the 

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