A statue of Thomas Jefferson, who was the third president of the United States, has been removed from New York City Hall after a unanimous vote by a committee, because of his links to the slave trade.

I mean the buried lede here is why was this done by a committee — that is, the unelected Public Design Commission — instead of by debate and a vote by City Council? these labyrinth unelected bureaucracies are outright antithetical to the American ideal

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