Via WorldNetDaily: Flag-Raising Statue Draws Criticism: "A statue based on the famous photograph of the flag-raising at the World Trade Center site is being criticized because the three white firefighters in the picture have been transformed into one white, one black and one Hispanic."
"... Tony Marden of Ladder 165 in Queens called the decision `an insult to those three guys to put imaginary faces on that statue. It's not a racial thing. That shouldn't even be an issue.'' ... And Carlo Casoria, who lost his firefighter son, Thomas, said: `They're rewriting history in order to achieve political correctness.''"
"``Questions about race or ethnicity played no part in the brave deeds firefighters performed on Sept. 11, and it does a disservice to the memory of the thousands lost on that day to raise such issues,'' said Bruce Ratner, president and chief executive of Forest City Ratner Cos., the management company that is paying for the statue."
This really is "political correctness run amok".
Sunday, January 13, 2002
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