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In US news and current events today, the city of Philadephia has finally removed a statue of former mayor and police chief Frank Rizzo after years of controversy. Opponents of the statue argued that Rizzo was a major factor in the systemic inequality the Philly police enforced on people of color throughout the city.
The statue became a focal point during the Philadelphia protest that sprung out of the larger Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, and it is part of a larger debate over removing statues of racist icons like Robert E. Lee and other Confederate statues. As the BLM protests usher in sweeping change, many hope to see these relics of a hateful past removed, while still keeping the terrible history and the lessons learned from it in our consciousness.
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Thank god Karen wasn't there, she would have started to search for manager and make a scene out of it.
Westin Taylor triggered
ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀɢᴏᴀᴛ seriously
@Westin Taylor Thank God Karen wasn't there, a welfare Rump supporter storming in the governor's building in Michigan with AK-14 pointing on the government's head is very hypocritical, and double standard.
Who's Karen?
Hahaha good one you are so right.
Melt it down and use the scrap metal for new playground equipment. Put it to GOOD use for a change.
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Right! WE have pictures and video, it's not eternally lost
Erosdox7 🤦🏻😂 ok.
Erosdox7 omg yes!!! I agree! This is the best thing I’ve read today, thank you my good friend💜
Honestly a guy started a racist museum of all the racist things america has kept from the present and past. It should be put there to really drive the point home. Learn from the past. Show it existed. Dont idolize it.
That statue was supposed to be taken off in 2017. Good Riddance.
@inrealtime23 good question
Just replace him with a bronze statue of a giant cheesesteak.
You're welcome, Philly.
id vote for that!
Or a statue of a giant cheesecake! ; )
Im good wit that
@@keepruvthknight cheesecake is also great, but doesnt really have anything to do with philly, but sure why not.
plewtz80 YEAH it does! PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE! 🙄
That "song" in the background was hella creepy.
Gabriel Justicar omg i was thinking the exact same thing lmao
@@SebastianDingleswitch exactly my thoughts
Well, that guy IS creepy as well, the music fits 😉
Gabriel Justicar lol thats jokes ne too!
Creepy music for Creepy people.
Why did they even make statue of him anyway ?
Racism
@Robert Thomas But i do know, it's perpetual racism they were born with, it's natural for them.
To let black ppl know what the police in that city idolize
*Bill Cosby had one in Disney Land*
Coz white folks
Its almost like protesting and rioting makes people listen.
It makes people listen, but makes them want to shut you up.
@@Monarch_Prime correct, their not listening they just want you to STOP similar to the cops taking a knee
Aro 327 i disagree with the rioting protesting is helping but rioting nearly made trump isssue martial law
@@dougiehowser6047 he wont ever issue martial law, he just learn that martial law exists soo now its gonna say it for a while
😅😂🤣
Just me , but i never understood why we make statue of people .
I think public monuments reflect a society’s values. In this case, we can see that societal values can change. I think humans will still erect monuments for the foreseeable future but societal values will constantly evolve. Just my two cents ✌️
The white supremacist always glorify themselves and always reward their killers.
@TheViperFan 😭😂
Idol's
As a way to preserve their memory, but the problem comes when said memory is an infamous one.
Sounds like it shouldn't have ever been made in the first place
It shouldnt have.
L N
Exactly!
But the question is why was made in first place?.
Who did it, and what was the reason. A symbol of white supremacy?
Of course they shouldn't have. They started making most of these racist statues around the turn of century and in the 1920's when the KKK was big.
@@marcopena7638 well the video implies he turned Philly around when it was even worse than it already is.
Philly was in a state of chaos before him... he brought order to philly
When they say "be on the right side of history or history won't be kind" this is what they mean
i would never want to be on the right (left) side of history.
"...aaaaaand it's gone!"
-South Park Bank Manager, 2009
Lmao I wouldn’t have ever thought of that. Love that episode!
Lmaoooo
Now we need to take down Trump. Thank you, next!
Ariana Grande?
M3lgar 5 ?
@@m3lgar582 Rizzo ate a ton of donuts, though. Ms Grande-Butera wasn't yet alive to lick them, as Mayor Rizzo died in 1991.
Can we build statues of people whom deserves it: Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X? no?
well done finally, Philadelphia
Yes. We should.
The woman before Rosa Parks 😁
All 3 of those people were also racist
@@thomasmatarazzo198 No they weren't.
shersmk90 malcom x was certainly
this is really good to see, but also sort of funny how the fact that he was racist is so significant. i live in south carolina and our entire history revolves around racism. you see racist statues and monuments everywhere here. we have schools, lakes, towns, etc. named after people who were obviously racist. even the founder of clemson university was racist. i guess it’s more “normal” here but it shouldn’t mean it’s more acceptable.
pax honestly m8, as part as the reform they need to do something regarding the use of items that represent racism/segregation.
youre an embarrassment to SC. if these yankees had their way youd be killed for being in the south.
@Blue Bandit i don’t understand how i’m an embarrassment. i was just acknowledging that most of the significant figures in sc’s history were racist and that it’s no different than a racist politician from pennsylvania. i also understand that to get rid of anything connected to racism would be to get rid of almost our entire history. i was simply saying that i think it’s shocking to see how little people tolerate historical figures who were racist in other places when it’s such a regular thing here that’s never even talked about. my apologies for being self aware and making a mature societal observation. if that’s what makes somebody an embarrassment in my state then i suppose i’d be an embarrassment.
@@bluebandit5586 what are you talking about
@Hillary's emails to Lorne i think it’s extremely unlikely and i highly doubt that the racism behind some of the monuments/memorials/statues will ever be addressed
I mean, it looks like he is doing a hitler salute so...
Hilter was supported by the U.S go read Henry Ford history
As soon as I seen it I thought that!
@Akainu Sakazuki94 nope, it's diagonal. You would be shot if you saluted him vertically
@Akainu Sakazuki94 Not straight up but the arm was fully extended.
OMG that's what I said when I saw it.
Don't throw the statue away! Melt it and mold it into a statue of Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcolm X, or maybe even George Floyd!
Yes make a statue for rosa, mlk, malcolm but not George. Yes its a tragedy that he dead in a bad way but that does not make him on the level of many others. If you were going to make a statue of george, why not a statue of fallen soldiers from iraq or previous battles?
No!!
No need for statues......
Teringventje Yes thank you..✌🏽
@laysrayslays
Yesss!
There is no place for this kind of people in this world.
Maybe we could put them all on an island, the Island of Racism
@@SchiwiM that's an amazing idea. Get them on the plastic island in the ocean.
@@liamsomeone6333 make them work to get the plastic out and make them finally useful
I agree completely. What is the point of freedom of speech anyway? We only wan't people in our society that we agree with and no one else.
So, a statute of a celebrated Italian was hard to get rid of. Then, what are we going to do about that other Italian and his national holiday, Christopher Columbus, America's first terrorist?
In Tennessee, we just knocked ours down because they would not remove it
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I’m from Philadelphia and remember Frank Rizzo’s mob connections!!!
Dude was Italian so....
When you realize that he was racist towards people of color when his statue isn’t white but colored.
I mean, marble statue easily breaks and you looks like someone from the ancient greek
@Jamel Jamal I know right!?
Thank goodness we don't have any statues of Donald Trump anywhere
Yet. 🥴
He's not, the whole world sees him as a fool, america is the laughing stock of the world
OMG! Finally down!
Yeah get that outta here!
"The police shouldnt be your friend, they're there to protect people, property, and keep black people in line" how does that not make peoples blood boil
Because your smart enough to know that the police do have their place.
@@lking1540 the polices place is keeping Black people in line?
He's just trolling.
Apart from the black people comment, he's right. Police isn't there to be your friend. It's to maintain law and order and protect the life and property of people.
If you remove the "keep black people in line" part, I agree with it
i didnt even know they gave statues to mayors... especially a racist one.
The USA has given status to numerous amount of racist people. What they weren't aware of what they call honor is called hate when you dont treat all people fairly.
This id amerikkka for you
@@mysoundmindz they even sculpted 4 white heads into a mountain, illegally, with a white supremacist as the sculpture.
In Richmond Virginia there’s a confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue that’s going to be taken down
Tetra3Ne56scur why he is a big part of history I think the statue should stay
But he's a good man
Just people removing history bcuz it "offends" them
what they need to do is put up a statue of Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan.
Wonderful. Keep us posted. Do a video and upload it. I would definitely watch it.
Wtf. This should’ve been taken down years ago.
Frank Rizzo is cancelled...history has never been kind to bigots
It’s been a long time coming and I’m so elated from Philly and this has always been an eye sore in the black community
It always boggles me to hear about Italians and being racist. I have seen the documents show how RACIST the United States was when Italians 1st started coming to America.
Exactly. You would think they would remember how “white” Americans discriminated against them.
It's not just Italians, it's everyone
Meh. Maybe they had bad experiences with blacks. I think we overuse the word "racist" in this country.
its actually how non-white groups back in the day, irish, italian, the new immigrants in early america, got made white and achieved better social standards, one of the steps was becoming racist toward not ethnicities but race. It solidified, racism, the idea of whiteness we have now.
You kinda become the monster yourself and perpetuate the nonsense you once experienced.
They did this in South Africa a few years ago.... Also renamed our cities and streets in black heroes names
It's _their_ cities now!
Now THIS is progress. One step at a time.
More like a PR move given the current times rather than a progress. If it was not for the protest, that statue would not have left the stairs.
@@Kyle-pp7dv Like he said, one step at a time.
0:15 trump in a nutshell
At least trump cares about space
@@Monarch_Prime Yeah, he occupies too much.
You are nuts you have no idea what you are talking about and that is apparent tell me who Frank Rizzo was are you from Philly? Do you have any idea where the man was do you have any idea who is son is? Didn't think so yeah just keep typing on your computers and everything's going to change now that that statues down world peace has been declared right great good to know moron
@@Monarch_Prime what are you even talking about? Can I get some of whatever you're on
Trump stared at an eclipse he can't even spell space you're inspace whack jobs I can't even believe it
love to hear some of these bright spots. mayor in birmingham is also removing a confederate monument in the next 24 hrs.
good riddance, most of us have wanted it gone for at least a decade.
When I was just a kid in Jr High, I thought he was a cool dude. Now that I am older and wiser, I see what a naive and dumb kid I was.
maturity makes you wiser.
Over here in England we've been having the same realizations about Winston Churchill
Why was this statue there in the first place🤔
For the same reason why other people still wave the confederation flag.
No offence but every old school Italian male is a Frank Rizzo
Do you live in Italy? Cause I do! And I can tell you, that you are wrong you racist!
@Tom Hublot I love the irony. You generalize the left by saying that they like to generalize.
Jerky Boyz
@@Khymeira that's all you took from that? Amazing
Macarronis are a danger to the world.
Hey snow in ec Philadelphia cop who used to train canine units. He told me many stories after a few drinks about how they used to throw black people off the top of buildings. He would laugh about it along With all the other senior citizens that he was telling the story to.
He worked under Frank Rizzo directly at the end, and had nothing but nice things to say about the man.
Wow
Sounds like a bs story to me
@@thomasmatarazzo198
Dude was crazy
I remember reading that Philadelphia police was over 20% black before he joined and once he took over as police chief it declined from 23% to 7.7% then to 2.4% majority being behind desk and not field cops
The man literally sent borderline death squads into black communities I wouldn't even be surprised if this was true!
They always claim to not be racist but literally everyday I see a new video of them acting out their racism.
@@BALLARDTWIN and where did you get this information could you please cite your resources you have a very specific number so could you please cite your resources because my father worked 4 the city of Philadelphia and he had a great job with many African-American engineers that he worked side-by-side with to make Philadelphia cleaner safer fixed the bridges and tunnels worked on the infrastructure of Philadelphia which is what we need because we have been living with an infrastructure that was built a hundred years ago so maybe African Americans were given better jobs than cops because I know my father would make over time and he got two and a half pay and so did everybody else great benefits so maybe they didn't want to be cops Jerry think about that maybe they saw the corruption in the police department and said now I'll take other jobs and get paid and raise my family well
So all this time he wasn’t seen as a racist until after George Floyd?? Ok....
Not our fault you're not educated
@@THER00BILLZ thats not what they wrote. They know he was a racist and wanted it taken down before
He was a lifelong democrat. Should've been a dead givaway he was racist. Or he just told the truth? Same difference to lefties
They wanted it taken down before, but now people are realizing that it will cause problems for them so they take it down.
It's a shame that a black man, who had two children had to die for those cities remove the stetues
Don't you mean millions?
@@ikillbigotswithglee2977 obviously, but that video of George being suffocated is rolling in entire world, and every single person is seeing what the police is capable to do when it threat about a black people. Uncountable has died but Floyd opened the eyes of the people
Should have been an all black team who physically pulled the statue down.
That would be racist no?
Joshua Hagen I don’t see how when he’s be especially terrible to them.
@@unamed2516 not personally
Finally, their still more to take down
Good news! Yet it's sad that it took this long and that it took so much fight.
Congratulations!👏👏👏
That statue should never have been there.
Rizzo should never have been there.
Yes to _equal_ law and order.
What took so long? Did it JUST become racist in 2020? GTFOHWTBS.
Why was there a statue of him in the first place.
Murica: hold my beer
the fact that this statue still remains in 2020 just shows how systemic racism in all levels of government. Unbelieveable
It took this to happen for them to take them down...just shows racism is very much alive and they knew it
I wonder if he knew he was white when his mom was pregnant, it’s literally just a skin tone difference i just dont get people with their racism, drop the statue to the bottom of the ocean.
James Bethel they should completely destroy it. Turn it into ashes.
Why couldn’t they have destroyed that instead of small businesses.
Whose they?
@@way2kool89 BLM protestors.
Edit: I was answering a suggestion to way2kool89's answer that it was BLM protestors when it wasn't as BLM doesn't have any link with the rioters and looters at all.
@@rickardkaufman3988 tf u talkin about? They're not BLM protestors, they're just filthy looters who are taking advantage of the protests. They're the ones who deserve to be shot down regardless of their race.
Rickard Kaufman protesters where never the ones looting though.
@@glorifiedtoasterwithlegs2294 I was answering way2look89's assumption that it was BLM protestors even though they aren't connected with the looters and rioters and the real people who removed this statue were the Philadelphia Coty Council.
When I read, "Statue of Racist Mayor," I guessed it was Frank Rizzo. And I have never lived in Philadelphia.
🤔 How did a statue get there in the first place??? Erecting a statue takes the involvement of MANY people!!!
different times, different mindsets
Exactly, but back then news media’s where not all run by agenda demons. Today news media cares less about African Americans, all the news wants to do is divide everyone.
Many people of different color will be fooled into reliving hate by news media propaganda. Ask yourself, do these reporters not live large, they don’t live near you, they despise you. They are there to divide you through hate manipulation.
Jesus christ every time a stupid commercial pops up and I'm in the comment section I automatically lose my place and have to start the process all over again. And what makes it worse its the commercial thats playing xmas music in june.
Nah the mayor doesn't want that history to be destroyed.
But it deserves to be destroyed!!!!! ✊✊✊✊✊
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Naysayer's think taking down these statues is erasing history... no, it's simply ceasing to glorify certain ugly parts of history.
@@CSGraves yeah but now glorifying them in private. In a safe place. Protected by people who said they were going to destroy it. So now their keeping it in safe keeping to be enjoyed in private.
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At the time I thought he was the good guy. Now I realize that was my youth and ignorance. I'm delighted to see his statue be taken down.
what about vandalised statue of Gandhi by this looters??
Just let's make sure there's never going to be a Trump statue....
About time!!! Need more of this
Only thing is he should have still been living to see it come down
"Mr. Gorbachov tear down those statues!"
And Trump's wall... when it is built... which is never.
Democracy may not be perfect, but we never need a wall to keep people in
Yeah because the statues are blocking people from being together you know they're definitely compared to a physical wall that separated people and spawn hatred absolutely you are right on removing those statues are exactly like removing a wall to ostracize people I can't believe the stupidity
It is time to remove monuments of bigotry, but perhaps we should leave a permanent plaque stating the wrongs he did and why the statue was removed. Perhaps art about the victims would be appropriate.
We should not erase history, lest it be repeated.
This. Replace the statue with something that is more positive, but also leave behind a plaque saying what was there, the good and the bad, the history, and why the decision was made to take it down.
I'm from Philly myself and let me say this should have been done a long time ago
To all racists : statues is not the way to learn about history, its who you honor..
is that plague inc music I hear in the background???
Just asking American people how it feels to face injustice, violence and propaganda 🤔🤔
Wow Frank Rizzo was a character from the jerky boys, so I can't take this guy seriously at all
I can bench 350 lbs baby, let me talk to your fuqing boss.
That statue is just like all other monuments. They're simply artwork. They aren't evil or threatening in any way shape or form. People have imaginations in their minds that their very own thoughts and feelings conclude a meaning in those monuments ! ! The BOOGIE MAN is all in their heads not in the artwork of the monuments.
I would have done this without permission. One chain on the back of my truck. Wrap it around the neck of the statue. Decapitated statue. 😂😂🤣
Well done Philadelphia! Edit: I had to look up what a mummer was lol.
Whatever you do, don't touch the Lenin statue in Seattle. Lenin's brutality was just a form of protest people.
Do we also remove the statue of Michaelangelo's David in Florence?
After all, he is a symbol of Jewish nationalism.
Be careful what you wish for.
And his statue is black, ironic.
Racist landmarks should be removed. even Germany is ashamed of their racist past idk why Americans are so proud.
Now tear down Rocky and replace them with a Joe Frazier statue..then we’re talking ..👊🏽
That's one of the stupiest decisions ever. Firstly, you keep the statue there so you can be like 'Don't be like this guy' . Second , you don't erase those things from history , you let them exactly where they are so people can learn from their country's problematic past, not acting like it doesn't exist .
Melt it down and make a statue of Will Smith. He's a real Philly legend.
A new generation of young people in interracial marriages and healthy... relationships who do not need to hold on to this type of division, put it in the museum and white supremacist can go look at it all the time, for the people who cannot accept.. others but claimed they know Christ Jesus.
At 2:58, it sounds like he’s actually saying “political calculations” instead of “political copulations.” (Same difference, I suppose.) 😏
I don't know? deleting the past is a tricky. The statue was a constant reminder, if we keep doing this, then one day there will be little left to remind us of what not to do. We learn from the bad as well as the good. Maybe all this kind of stuff should me in a large dedicated museums of bad stuff?
There's a person on earth that can only digest metal. Give the statue to him to eat, he'll have a feast.
If you melt it down. That is some fine metal for a new Garbage Dumpster. Please put it by my house.
That music sounds like the wii theme joined a cult
Yknow what would be funny and ironic? Melting the metal and turning it into a statue of something showing justice and peace with all races
People like this say they believe in law and order. I believe they use the forces of law and order for their own self serving needs. I believe they are not using law enforcement to protect and serve but instead to impose their will upon we the people unjustly and in a violation of our Constitutional rights.
Sad white peoples Heratag is getting destroyed 😡😡 greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Does hiding past history change future attitudes?
GJ! They should've done it before!
The protesters should have been tearing down statues around the country of these types of people. Washington DC is full of monuments of the worst individuals that the looters could have torn down and sell for scrap
You also need to make a video about John Street corruption young buck..
Break it in to many pieces and use it for public toilet
So should we remove the statue of liberty as well?
Thank God he didn't remove Rocky Statue
Keep racist statues...Forget about it!
Frank Rizzo was a legend among kings!
As a foreiner sitting outside of the US, I find it quite extraordinary that these symbols have been allowed in plain sight for all these years. I mean, I thought I knew a lot about racism and the history of Afro-Americans but I did not know that such symbols were still in the public eye. They are part of a history and as such should not be destroyed. But have the decency to move them to a more obscure place for education of generations to come.
I love how heartless people can be so terrible but since they climbed through the basic hierarchy of politics and maybe put some money into your community that he didn’t care about, he is now an icon and a legend. It’s scary how gullible humanity is.
It may be a small step, but it's a step in the right direction.
Cheers to the mayor for overcoming the political pressure and deciding on doing the right thing!
And now the next person on the list Donald Trump. Kick him out of whie house and his throne.
He's definitely getting re-elected.
why you have the worst audio.