Posted on 04/26/2018 10:08:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
Updated 23 minutes ago
Pittsburgh's monument to native son Stephen Collins Foster has returned to its old stomping ground.
A Department of Public Works crew removed the controversial statue of the Antebellum songwriter known as the father of American music early Thursday from Forbes Avenue in Oakland and hauled it by flatbed truck to a facility in Highland Park. The city will store it until officials find it a permanent home.
The 1,000-pound, 10-foot-high bronze statue stood at the entrance to Oakland's Schenley Park for 74 years after the city moved it from its original location near the entrance to Highland Park to prevent vandalism
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What if the local white trash were to vandalize a statue of St. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
“The city plans to replace the statue with a memorial to black women”...of course.
> What if the local white trash were to vandalize a statue of St. Martin Luther King, Jr.? <
Martin Luther King thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder (and said as much). So here’s a better question: What if the gays were to vandalize a statue of Martin Luther King?
what is controversial about him?
He was a white person born before 1900.
Bring Stephen to Florida. Specifically, Suwannee County.
He wrote about slaves, and there was one sitting by him on the statue.
And then this: "...While some of Foster's songs contain graphic, derogatory depictions of slaves, he is credited with being among the first musicians to dignify and humanize blacks through his songs..."
We are indeed at war. The left, doing what it has done since time began, seeks domination by making their opponents "unpersons".
Lenin did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it. Castro did it. Pol Pot did it.
Now our "fellow Americans" do it.
Statue in question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster_(sculpture)#/media/File%3AMonument_to_Stephen_Foster.jpg
Fosters generation to be sure would get a kick out of current ghetto rap. /S
Insanity.
Are these lyrics offensive?
1.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”
.
Chorus
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear their gentle voices calling, “Old Black Joe”.
2.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
Chorus
3.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”
Members of the United States Supreme Court did it to unborn children.
It was an insult to Stephen Foster to have his statue in that liberal Shithole!!!
“Martin Luther King thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder (and said as much).”
Funny, the deified King didn’t have much of a problem with adultery, prostitution or beating whores. But he’s got a holiday named after him.
When Reagan caved on the King holiday, he set into motion an unstoppable move to the left in the USA. Imagine, Jack French Kemp and James Danforth Quayle telling Reagan that he would win black support by simply signing the King bill.
what is controversial about him?
He was a white person
born before 1900.
Yes.
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