From the New York Times:

Which Statues Need to Come Down? You Decide

By EMILY BADGER, KATHLEEN A. FLYNN and SAMUEL JACOBY AUG. 29, 2017

Here’s the percentage of readers who supported taking each statue down

93% Nathan Bedford Forrest

84% Joe Paterno

 

84% Jefferson Davis

 

83% Roger B. Taney

 

79% Robert E. Lee

 

70% Strom Thurmond

 

56% Frank Rizzo

 

53% J. Marion Sims

 

53% ‘Silent Sam’

 

48% Stephen Foster

 

42% Andrew Jackson

 

31% Christopher Columbus

 

23% William McKinley

 

17% Theodore Roosevelt

 

8% Ulysses S. Grant

 

4% George Washington

Based on 15358 reader responses.

Others whose statues and memorials should have been asked about:

• Thomas Jefferson
• Woodrow Wilson
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (redlining, Japanese internment)
• Earl Warren (Japanese internment, (giant crime wave))
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (eugenics)
• James Madison (slaveholder)
• Sam Houston (anti-Mexican, slaveholder, frenemy of Cherokee)
• Judah P. Benjamin (anti-Semitism)
• POW grave markers in Madison and Boston
• Confederate General Stand Watie
• Scary Confederate flag-looking tiles in Times Square subway station
• Traveler (USC mascot horse spelled kind of like Robert E. Lee’s famous Traveller horse)
• Phantom (Robert E. Lee’s less famous horse)
• Bruce Lee
• Bill Clinton
• Lenin (18' statue on Lower East Side)
• Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston Public Library)
• Balto (Central Park Zoo)

I’m not sure who would be against Balto, the heroic Siberian husky who led the sled team that carried medicine to Nome, Alaska during the 1925 diptheria epidemic, but in these sensitive times we must ask these difficult questions.

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