Advocates for racial justice and gay rights came together Monday afternoon to demand San Diego officials remove a life-sized bronze sculpture of former California Gov. Pete Wilson.
The move comes amid nationwide demands for the removal of statues of Confederate generals and people who owned enslaved people.Critics say Wilson, who was also mayor of San Diego, should be judged harshly for his support in 1994 of Proposition 187, which sought to curb illegal immigration by cutting off state services to undocumented people. The voter-approved ballot measure was eventually ruled unconstitutional.
“His recent unsolicited endorsement of Trump doubles down on the hatred he inspires,” said Morones, criticizing Trump for not condemning white supremacist groups strongly enough. “It is long overdue that the Pete Wilson statue be taken down.”Morones placed a red mask on the Wilson statue, signifying Morones’ support for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Pete Wilson, former mayor of San Diego and governor of California, stands by a bronze statue in his likeness in downtown San Diego in 2007.Sean Walsh, Wilson’s law partner and former chief of staff, said demands for removal of the statue are part of a new “cancel culture.”
Angry liberals
Why don't y'all just get a big fat eraser and remove all your bad history. In life you have to take the good with the bad. It's like yin and yang.
Please! Please do this!
they can replace it with this 👇
Social justice warriors want it then they will get it here in CA! They have the right 2 rob future generations of our history simply cause they can. They loot our stores, burn our cities & our Gov cheers them on. There is no limit 2 wat they are allowed 2 do with no consequence.
This headline doesn’t even match the first sentence of the article & should be labeled as opinion only.
I’ll settle for the statue I kept trying to vote that racist Mofo out. PS Pete Wilson gave $5k to Trump. He’s a horrible human. I’ll pay towards removal of the statue. VOTE votebiden
Liberals are so insufferable.
Can't say as I blame them. I remember.
At this point, any politician with an 'R' next to their name needs to be removed
social justices advocates want everything they don't like removed from everywhere they don't like. but conservatives are the fascists. of course.
All of these statues R of white men, that had statues made of themselves! 😂 Take them all down!
What? There’s a statue of that Piece of Shite in SD? Eeek!
He was awful, they can just give it to pge they owned him
Good. Wilson was an evil POS.
Oh goodness give it a damn rest already!!!
Good! Fuck Pito Wilson!