A District of Columbia panel says Ben Franklin's name should be removed from D.C. property

See Benjamin Franklin, ‘Person of Concern’: D.C. also proposes to cancel Washington and Jefferson. Excerpts:

"a District of Columbia panel has identified Franklin, among other Founders, as a “person of concern,” and recommended his name be removed from D.C. property.

The astonishing proposals come from a Washington, D.C., government committee formed by Mayor Muriel Bowser to re-examine the names of schools, statues and parks in the wake of protests. The committee submitted its report Monday, and Ms. Bowser tweeted “I look forward to reviewing and advancing their recommendations.”"

"The committee doesn’t explain its case against Franklin, but we can assume he was judged for once owning slaves. He was later president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, but anyone who believes the report is a considered historical exercise and not an Orwellian effort in ideological reprogramming has been taken in.

The committee wants the Franklin School historic landmark renamed and recommends that D.C. petition the federal government to “remove, relocate, or contextualize” a federally owned Franklin statue. It offers the same recommendation for the federal Washington Monument—yes, the monument to the man who won America’s independence."