Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed against Mayor Kenney and the City of Philadelphia

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

When: Tuesday, April 6th, 2021. Who: Plaintiffs are The Conference Of Presidents Of Major Italian American Organizations, Philadelphia Councilmember Mark F. Squilla, and The 1492 Society. Where: Suit has been filed in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

On January 27, 2021, Mayor Kenney by "Executive Order" No. 2-21 unilaterally canceled "Columbus Day" as a holiday in Philadelphia, and replaced it with "Indigenous Peoples Day". No notice was given to the other branches of the Philadelphia Government which had a right to designate holidays, no input from the public was requested or allowed for, and no deference was given to State Statue (44 P.S Section32) declaring "Columbus Day" as an official statewide holiday, all in violation of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter.

More importantly, Mayor Kenney's Executive Order is the latest in a long pattern of discrimination against the Italian American Community in Philadelphia (including the toppling in the middle of the night of the Rizzo Statue and the boxing up the Columbus Statue in Marconi Plaza), and violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of "Equal Protection" against governmental discrimination.

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Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit filed against Mayor Kenney and the City of Philadelphia

Trying to protect slaver Columbus' memory? The gall these white males have...