Posted on 02/07/2022 7:56:02 AM PST by devane617
There’s a problem with putting someone on a pedestal: Exposed on all sides, a hero to some can be seen as a traitor to others.
Atlanta plans to install a statue of a Native American man atop a 110-foot (34-meter) column in its new Peace Park, where it will tower over statues of 17 civil rights icons, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Developer Rodney Mims Cook Jr. calls Chief Tomochichi “a co-founder of Georgia” who prevented massacres by warmly inviting British Gen. James Oglethorpe to colonize his people’s land in 1733.
“They became the closest of friends, initiating from the moment of Georgia’s founding a practice of diplomatic negotiation and cohabitation,” a narrator asserts in a video promoting the park. “Nearly three centuries later, Georgia’s tradition of peaceful coexistence continues to thrive.”
But Cook didn’t ask the Muscogeeabout their ancestor, and now that he’s unveiled the $300,000 bronze statue, historians say it’s all wrong. “Disrespectful” and “incredibly inappropriate” are some of the reactions three tribal historians shared with The Associated Press.
The nearly naked figure presents an offensive and historically inaccurate conception of Native Americans as primitive savages, and glorifies a heavily mythologized figure blamed by the Muscogee for initiating a century of ethnic cleansing and land loss. They say Atlanta is erasing them again, acting as if they vanished without a fight after handing over their land and heritage.
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Perhaps they should have made the statue wearing a shirt and tie.
And pants.
Poor guy. He sounds like a good man and an important part of history. To be lionized/debased this way.
Naked Savages Ping
Was his six pack a recorded part of history or is that artistic license?
Yes. Shows what liberals really think about “Native Americans.”
I gotta say. That’s an awful long codpiece.
I am impressed. And jealous.
I’d have been more upset if the loincloth had only been an inch long.
It’d be shame if a gang of smelly freaks toppled it.
Chief Dirk Diggler
A loin cloth for all seasons (and situations).
Hollywood has so infected our culture to the point that everybody thinks the American natives ran around half naked..............................
Still has nothing on the nude George Washington: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/nyregion/george-washington-nude-statue.html
It's his pee-pee teepee.
It appears he is being denigrated for his open borders policy.
True examples of Muscogee (Creek) and Tsalagi (Cherokee) dress:
One would have to find out what the sexual meanings of the artist, I’m thinking. If it’s what I think they may be, then yes, I’m sure he did the statue as he fantasized what the guy looked like it. If only in his dreams.
Judge: Bailiff, wack his pee-pee.
Bailiff: I just don’t have that much time.
“Hollywood has so infected our culture to the point that everybody thinks the American natives ran around half naked...” when they actually dressed in florescent yellow and lime-green.
Atop a 110’ pedestal.
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