University of Wisconsin students call for removal of Abraham Lincoln statue on Madison campus

Chicago Tribune ^ | 6/30/2020 | KELLY MEYERHOFER

[Borges]

Some University of Wisconsin-Madison students of color want the university to remove one of its most iconic landmarks, a statue of Abraham Lincoln, because of what they see as the former president’s anti-indigenous and anti-Black history despite Lincoln’s legacy of ending slavery in the U.S.

Two student organizations, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition, pushed for the statue’s removal in early June, days after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody and protests erupted nationally over racial injustice.

[Mastador1]

If they don’t like they should leave, who made them God of monuments?

[bray]

Move it to the library, nobody will see it there.

[ronnie raygun]

Remove Federal funding

[mikey_hates_everything]

If Boo Hoo Girl was President, she'd be Babraham Lincoln.

[Verginius Rufus]

Football tribalism. Lincoln was an Illinoian. When the U of I played Wisconsin in Big Ten games, he always rooted for the U of I. They can’t get over it.

[jonrick46]

This reveals the crap education these mental midgets have for all their years in government schools. The KKKrats have always been against Lincoln and the party he represents. For them, their legitimization of slavery was their legal right that should never have been taken away for them. Since then, it has been their objective to take revenge through history for what was done to them. Knocking off Lincoln was not good enough for them. Creating a social welfare state gave them the satisfaction of being the slave masters over a monument to slavery.

[CrazyIvan]

“Ths Studet Inclusion Coalition does not believe in Inclusion. Madison campus is probably the most wacko liberal of them all.”

I live south of Madison in Illinois. It is commonly referred to as “The Arctic Berkley”.

[Richard Axtell]

Perhaps the statues should be asked what they want? Maybe the removal of the students? Seems likely.

[PIF]

eventually the Left will say “OK establishment, you have given us everything we wanted and we are now happy. Thank you and let’s live together in peace.”

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And that’s what too many people believe - just give them what they want and they’ll be content. But that somehow never happens, but don’t worry these are the right people and they will do it right this time. And if they don’t, there is always a next time, eh?

[Don Corleone]

I cannot believe just how completely successful the Marxist teachers have been. Heads full of mush to heads full of fetid air.

[BobL]

I think the problem here is that a lot Whites admire Lincoln...so that cannot be allowed to stand.

[vetvetdoug]

Lincoln was willing to let over a half million or more die to strengthen the ties to the Federal government and lessen the power of the States. Slavery, just like the BLM movement, was a tool to gain his success and was not a major priority at the beginning of the war.

History is written by the victors.

[ScottinVA]

I guess we all should pay attention, because they seem to get anything and everything they want.

[SuperLuminal]

The communist's greatest achievement... Destroy and repopulate a Nation using marxist-indoctrination machines that generate new communists 24-hours a day: The U.S. government schools & all government and all but 3 or 4 private universities...

The Fabians and their strategy have totally won their stated goals set about 140 years ago... The strategy worked beautifully...

Either we close and raze every single one of them now or stop complaining and blissfully accept living in a marxist/communist nation... There is no other solution anymore...

Unfortunately, even if heroic surgery to remove the cancerous tumors may have been a solution 4-decades ago, it most likely is too late now to save the patient without bloodshed...

[Wilhelm Tell]

Probably they are upset that Lincoln didn’t say a word about LGBTQWERTY people.

[ScottinVA]

I completely agree. The mere idea that this country can survive in its present state is laughable. We had a great run, but it’s irretrievably broken. Time to recognize that undeniable fact and separate into four countries.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I don’t want to share a country with those idiots. They can go away and make their own hell hole country.

[dfwgator]

Time to recognize that undeniable fact and separate into four countries.

They won't give up until they have it all.

[GranTorino]

Where does it end?
War.
The Commies will never let us have a fair election.

[robowombat]

No, Sumner wouldn't pass the current rage litmus test. He eventually became disgusted at the corrupt racket that Reconstruction regimes ran and said so on the floor of the Senate, he supported Seward in the acquisition of Alaska and in his final years in the Senate developed a fairly close friendship with Sen. L Q C Lamar of Mississippi who was both a former planter and a CSA general officer. Lamar was chosen to pronounce the Senate's Eulogy on Sumner.