De Blasio’s Wife Rejects Patron Saint of Immigrants To Honor Drag Queens

Bill De Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, launched a program called “She Built NYC,” in which she invited the public to vote on women who’s historic significance to the city should be honored with a statue.

Mother Cabrini, Patron Saint of Immigrants, was the winner of the poll, receiving 219 votes. I’d say this is an excellent choice, given New York City’s long history of immigration. Mother Cabrini was an Italian immigrant herself,
who helped build schools, hospitals, and orphanages to care for new arrivals. Her story is one of true grit, determination, compassion, and REAL feminism.

She’s a perfect candidate, right?

NOPE.

McCray decided she didn’t like that, and went with two drag queens instead.

According to Breitbart:

Without explanation, McCray decided on a group of people that were nowhere near the top choices picked by New Yorkers, including the two drag queens who founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

For crying out loud.

The “She Built NYC” project began last summer as an attempt by McCray to balance the male-female mix of statues of eminent New Yorkers. When McCray asked for the public’s input, she received an avalanche of more than 1,800 suggestions, with some 320 women nominated.

McCray and former Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen basically ignored the results of the public consultation and chose the seven women they wanted to honor, none of whom was among the top seven women picked in the poll.

This is honestly so pathetic. Why even have the vote? The “winners” had clearly already been selected.

Note that DRAG QUEENS are MEN – so I have a hard time understanding how statues of men in dresses do anything to “to balance the male-female mix of statues of eminent New Yorkers.”

The faithful of Saint Frances Cabrini church in Bensonhurst were “very disappointed” after learning she would not figure among the seven women chosen, said Father Guy Sbordone, pastor of the parish.

“People were a little taken aback, and rightfully so,” he said. “They’re thinking about their vote and what it meant and why it isn’t being honored.”

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini — America’s first saint and the patroness of immigrants — was herself an Italian immigrant who became a naturalized citizen. And arguably she did more than any other woman of her day to help the immigrant community in the United States.

So essentially, these woke Democrats who love to invoke America’s immigrant heritage have snubbed a central figure who helped make that immigrant heritage a success by creating schools, hospitals, and orphanages to care for the new arrivals.

Classy move.