What should replace the Frank Rizzo statue? Philadelphians weigh in.
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Locals weigh in on what—if anything—should take over the spot formerly occupied past the controversial Frank Rizzo sculpture.
Jun. 04, 2020
Jim Kenney finally did information technology.
After years of contend, the mayor sent out a crew in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday to uproot the imposing, controversial, 10-foot-tall sculpture of sometime Mayor Frank Rizzo that has dominated the steps in forepart of the Municipal Services Building since 1998.
The removal comes on the heels of several days of protests in Philadelphia—and
beyond the nation—following the police killing of George Floyd, a few days after protesters in Philly vandalized and tried to pull the statue down, and—equally 1 local reporter pointed out—just after a publicly-condemned move by the Police Department to tear-gas protesters on I-676.
The fate of the statue is nevertheless to be seen. Mayor Kenney told reporters on Wednesday that he doesn't know what will go of it. And he'due south not sure what, if anything, will supercede it.
A few hours after it came downward, a South Philly woman poignantly delivered a bouquet of flowers to lay where the statue once stood, telling Inquirer reporters that she, "brought [them] from my garden to supercede anger and detest with beauty."
We're personally fans of the giant afro-pick sculpture past Hank Willis Thomas that was installed there temporarily as part of a Mural Arts projection in September 2017.
But what do other Philadelphians think? We put out a call for suggestions, and the responses are too great not to share. Cheque out some ideas below, and feel free to counterbalance in on social media, or by emailing u.s.a. at [email protected]. We'll continue updating this listing as the ideas roll in.
What should replace the Frank Rizzo statue …
To instill promise
- Statue of… children of unlike races holding hands. Children are not born with hate in their hearts, maybe usa adults can learn from them. (Lisa Ann)
- Promise struggling for peace! (Donald Coppersmith)
- A piece on peace from [artist] @rendawriter (@mouse.photography)
- A welcoming space, maybe art that is created without hurting the environment or is already out in the globe forth with sustainable light-green infinite. (@wendygoldbird)
- Information technology's the municipal building, and then something symbolizing all of the states working together for the betterment of our city. (@wmillcreek_rec)
To correspond those under-represented
- Since many of the statues in this metropolis stand for military men and at that place are only a few of women or People of Colour, why don't we lean that way? In that location are so many to choose from who correspond dear and forcefulness it actually shouldn't be that hard. (Melissa Abrupt Terrels)
- This is an opportunity to commission more than public monuments made by and honoring Philadelphia's BIPOC and LGBTQ communities. (Mike Kaiser)
- Move the Octavius Catto statue over there for now. (Robert Reid)
- Lenni Lenape (Ginny McCracken)
- Marian Anderson (Liz Johnson)
- Harriett Tubman, who spent time in Philadelphia (Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriett'due south Bookshop, and Marian Fischer Pearlman)
- Vincent Leaphart, AKA John Africa (Larry Shaeffer)
- John Coltrane (@Mollzdawg)
- Cecil B. Moore or Thomas Paine! He was a true radical and it's already named afterwards him (@Wbj._.jr)
- Patti LaBelle (@ms_mccool)
- George Floyd (@jhomamah)
- Will Smith (@zakroff)
- How near a place designed specifically for outdoor, planned, public debate about the electric current issues fashioned later on Cira Greenish. An amphitheater, if you will. It could be surrounded by commemorative busts of people who have worked for equality amid all Americans. (Joel Hause)
To commemorate Philly history
- A MOVE memorial, so we never forget that this urban center and its racist constabulary dropped a bomb on its own citizens. (Maggie Gummere)
- Why not utilise this as an opportunity to make the plaza a tourist destination and an extension of Dilworth and JFK Plaza and include features that will help strengthen the social fabric? (Sean Bryce)
- I say move the kite statue there…I only get to come across it when I go to Bailiwick of jersey!! (Frejo Steinberg-Mertz)
To practise something totally different—that is, nothing
- But let it be an empty, commonplace set of stairs. Anything that does will always exist tired to the Rizzo statue thus keeping the retentivity of it live. (@mouse.photography)
- Take the coin and put it towards education. (Fran Donato)
- Zero—that sends a message that Metropolis government is for the people, and nothing should stand in the fashion of that. (Amanda Green)
- Replace it with a simple plaque explaining what was there earlier and why it had to be removed. (Lois Zuest)
- Enough with monuments. How about redesigning the plaza to function better and integrate more green space. (@threeevergreen)
To poke fun
- A crying Rizzo supporter (Bradley Ryan)
- A marble pizza or cheesesteak. The kids at PAFA could brand it a senior twelvemonth projection, chiseling information technology past hand similar the ancient Egyptians, and then dragging information technology in teams on ropes and rollers downward Broad and installing it up the steps. (Thomas Droppelmann)
- Easy: (and then pasted a photo of a Bruce Lee sculpture (Jim Nicholson)
And, of course …
- Another Rizzo Statue. Don't exist a piece of shit Liberal. (Placidity Jones)
Source: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/frank-rizzo-statue-replacement/
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