WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz
District 32 Bronx County, New York
By Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz
District 32 Bronx County, New York
You should know that the "honorable"
New York City Council Speaker, Ms. Melissa Mark-Viverito, a Puerto Rican
like me, has pointed her guns and marked for destruction the Statue of
Christopher Columbus, (Cristobal Colon in Spanish), located on Columbus
Circle in Manhattan.
Trying to show her "love &
respect" for the native American Indians; Ms. Viverito has gone back
four hundred (400) years and suddenly has remembered all the "evil"
things that Columbus did to the Native Americans, and to compensate what
was done four centuries ago she is asking for the statue of Columbus to
be removed.
According to Ms. Viverito by doing
that we will do justice and honoring the Native American Indians.
However, in another part of the
state, now four hundred years after Christopher Columbus, New York State
Governor Andrew Cuomo, is changing the name of the Tappan Zee Bridge in
honor of his father and former Governor Mario Cuomo.
You should know that according to
"Wikipedia", on March 1952 New York State started the Construction
of a Bridge, crossing the Hudson River at one of its widest points; as
an integral conduit within the New York Metropolitan area.
The bridge connects South Nyack
in Rockland County with Tarrytown in Westchester County in the lower Hudson
Valley.
It is important for you to know
that it took only three years for the Bridge to be constructed and on December
15, 1955, it was officially opened to traffic.
On February 28, 1956, New York State
Governor W. Averell Harriman officially named the Bridge "Tappan Zee
Bridge", in honor of an American Indian tribe from the area called
"Tappan and Zee, was the Dutch word for "Sea".
I believe that if Melissa Mark-Viverito
and others are seriously concerned about the legacy of the American Indian
they should be angrier at Governor Andrew Cuomo's intention to erase the
name of the Tappan Indian Tribe that was officially given to the Bridge
in honor of the Native American Indian Tribe sixty-one (61) years ago by
Governor Harriman.
It is my opinion that if Ms. Viverito
is hurt by what was done to the American Indian 400 years ago by Christopher
Columbus she should be agonizing by what Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing
to the legacy of the Tappan Indian Tribe at the present time.
But surprise, surprise I do not
hear Ms. Viverito complaining or criticizing Governor Cuomo for his dishonoring
a Native American Indian Tribe by removing and renaming the Tappan Zee
Bridge.
I am Senator Reverend Rubén Díaz,
and this is what you should know.
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