Jack Kemp

This is too rich.

The Times Square subway station has a design similar to the Confederate flag.

Adolph Ochs bought the NY Times in the very early 20th Century. His and the Sulzberger family have controlled it since then. Check out he info on his burial below.


http://nypost.com/2017/08/17/mta-will-remake-tiles-that-look-like-confederate-flags-in-station/
MTA will remake tiles that look like Confederate flags in station
By Danielle Furfaro
August 17, 2017

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In the wake of last weekend’s white-power unrest in Virginia over a Confederate monument, the MTA has decided to remake a series of tile mosaics in the Times Square subway station that look eerily like Confederate Flags.
Confederate flags adorn this Times Square subway station
The Post found in 2015 that the designs of rectangular squares with blue crosses on a red background have been a part of the Times Square station décor for more than than 90 years.
They honor the late New York Times head Adolph S. Ochs, a Southerner who was buried with a Confederate flag.
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And there is this quote from a 2015 NY Post article detailing the history of the Ochs family:

http://nypost.com/2015/06/25/confederate-flags-adorn-this-times-square-subway-station/

Although born in Ohio, Ochs had ties to the rebel cause, Jackowe wrote in Civil War Times in 2012.
His mom, Bertha Levi Ochs, was a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and helped smuggle spies and quinine during the war, Jackowe said.

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This is all too rich. Read both short articles and view the photos at the NY Post website. This is the same NY Times that didn't want to put up Christmas decorations on their building for years because (perhaps) they thought they were inappropriate.

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