Posted on 12/29/2020 8:00:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet - optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice - has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston.
Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879.
City officials had agreed in late June to take down the memorial after complaints and a bitter debate over the design. Mayor Marty Walsh acknowledged at the time that the statue made residents and visitors alike “uncomfortable.”
The bronze statue is a copy of a monument that was erected in Washington, D.C., three years earlier. The copy was installed in Boston because the city was home to the statue’s white creator, Thomas Ball.
It was created to celebrate the freeing of slaves in America and was based on Archer Alexander, a Black man who escaped slavery, helped the Union Army and was the last man recaptured under the Fugitive Slave Act.
But while some saw the shirtless man rising to his feet while shaking off the broken shackles on his wrists, others perceived him as kneeling before Lincoln, his white emancipator.
Freed Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy in Boston. The inscription on both reads: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.”
More than 12,000 people had signed a petition demanding the statue’s removal, and Boston’s public arts commission voted unanimously to take it down. The statue was to be placed in storage until the city decides whether to display it in a museum.
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That’s OK.
So, guessing that no one cares about folks that are offended by the removal of said statue?
This is so stupid.
they do know the man was in chains and had been prostrate, right? And now is RISING?
Good God.
I’m not big on Yankees or Lincoln but this is just stupid and asinine. And what it really means is “hate America” so we can have communism.
Exactly.
People need to start defending some of these statues.
Perhaps a replacement statue is in order: of them pulling off voter fraud by millions of fake ballots? Maybe Stacey Abrams replacing Lincoln watching over the fraud.
The man was not kneeling, he was getting UP!.................
Yes. Apparently it’s ok for whites to bow to blacks. But a black rising from his prone position in front of a white is bad.
It’s the freeing of the slave they wish to erase.
No, it’s OK for blacks and the left to be this racist and ignorant.
they are kneeling to Fentanyl Floyd BECAUSE
their ChInA supplies 97% of the poison to murder Americans.
.... and they LOVE THAT.
proof. look at their feces infested cities.
Erasing history is the first goal of all Socialist. People must forget the past and accept that all history is false for their goals to be achieved.
Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator... But when people learn that history writes that Lincoln was a Republican and his opponents were Democrats, that doesn’t fit the narrative of the modern Democrat Socialist party.
In another decade or so, Lincoln will likely be recorded as the man who thwarted the Democrats Douglas and McClellan’s efforts to end slavery... Re-writing factual history and replacing it with nonsense is a Socialist tradition.
And I heard those allegedly African inspired drapes they are wearing aren’t even historically accurate. But that’s ok because Democrats are never held to account for their inaccuracies.
So glad I don’t f’n live there anymore.
Bitter debate my ass - it had been there for almost 150 years but was proof that Lincoln DID something for the black man and is in the way of our new Marxist history.
It should have stayed and those who are fomenting the destruction of history and our country should be torn down.
It will be replaced with a statue depicting a gagged and chained white person kneeling at the feet of a Black Lives Matter “activist”.
Ah, so they want to keep the slave chained?
They’re still stuck on stupid.
Racial injustice = You won’t Give Us Your Stuff
What is the population of Boston???
12,000 people cannot be a large % of that total.
Totally wrong.
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