Patricia N. Saffran New York City officials finally got rid of the highly polluting, unsightly large food trucks surrounding Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ historic masterpiece, the Sherman Equestrian Monument, off Fifth Avenue. https://jameshfetzer.org/2023/07/patricia-n-saffran-sherman-monument-ambushed-on-fifth-avenue-central-park/ Now the monument has a new enemy, an awkward, clunky, appalling Citibank bike rack, placed right in front of the valuable sculpture. After the Plaza Hotel’s lawsuit against NYC DOT to remove the abysmal Citibank bike rack from their entrance was tossed by a judge, https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/judge-tosses-lawsuit-by-plaza-hotel-asking-to-have-citi-bike-rack-removed/ the bike rack continued its green mission in front of the hotel, all the while…
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Patricia N. Saffran, The Now Defunct Washington Redskins’ Logo Honors Famous Native American Chiefs
by Patricia N. Saffran The Washington professional football team bowed to public sentiment and pressure from Native American activists including Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and have abandoned their identity. Nez called the Redskins’ team name and logo “racist and disparaging.” Not all Indigenous people agree, but the team preferred to withdraw their name and image anyway. The name “Redskins” may have some controversy attached to it but was it necessary to drop the logo, too? The logo of a Native American in profile is taken from the 1913 Buffalo…