Posted on 07/06/2020 6:56:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Protests over the horrific police killing of George Floyd infamously devolved into riots and looting that destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and even black monuments. The iconoclastic vandals who began by toppling Confederate monuments moved on to defacing statues of America’s Founders, Indian nationalists like Mahatma Gandhi, and even a monument to the 54th Massachusetts regiment, the first black volunteers to fight for the Union in the Civil War. Yet one of the most grotesque acts of vandalism came on Sunday when vandals toppled a statue of former slave Frederick Douglass in Rochester, N.Y.
Vandals somehow removed the Douglass statue from its base and dropped it near the Genessee River gorge, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported. Located in Maplewood Park, the statue “had been placed over the fence to the gorge and was leaning against the fence” on the side of the river, Rochester police said in a statement. Authorities found the statue about 50 feet from its pedestal.
The vandals dislodged the statue exactly 168 years after Douglass delivered one of his most important speeches. He delivered “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” on July 5, 1852, speaking to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall in Rochester. Douglass, who escaped slavery in 1838 and settled in Rochester, lamented the horrific institution and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The black community in Rochester celebrated American independence on July 5, rather than July 4.
“Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn,” Douglass said. Yet he praised the Founders and insisted that the Constitution’s principles and purposes are “entirely hostile to the existence of slavery,”
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Wake up call for the left??????....is this a trick topic?....
I wish someone in the media, or politicians, would tell us:
1. Who is organizing these statues tear down actions?
2. Who is paying these people? Did these people just get up one day and decide, gee, let’s go tear down statues for fun?
3. And isn’t it obvious that these idiots don’t know what the hell they are doing or protesting, when they deface or destroy monuments to Lincoln, General Grant, Frederick Douglass, those who were among the “good guys” in leading to the end of slavery???
How the hell can the destruction of that statue be a wake up call?
The fact is, it is absolute proof of the fact that the Democrat party is the new national socialist party of America and that these little bastards doing these things are their brown shirts.
Who will be their dear leader? Soros is to old.
This has gone way beyond any sort of focused protest over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, police brutality and racism were merely the pretext for a movement aimed at destroying everything real Americans honor and cherish.
wake up black community you are being played by Marxists, hell even half of them on the street are being played and used
Soros formed organizations.
Here is a question for some of the Jewish people in this world...
You hunted Nazi’s and Nazi collaborators ruthlessly since WW2.
Why havent you taken Soros in custody and charged him?
Money that important? Power that important? Or maybe some of you really do believe that Marxism is the best way?
Marx was Jewish.
Always thought he looked like a black Karl Marx.
It would make no difference. They would have toppled it if they knew, and they will learn no lesson.
This is not about slavery, blacks, George Floyd, or any of this crap. It is a communist insurgency and attempt to overthrow the government for the Democratic party.
The IRA was the military wing of Sinn Fein, the antifa/blm is the military wing of the DNC.
Soon they will be toppling statuesque blondes.
and yet the people are totally comfortable with voting for their do nothing local democrats.
davos had a conference demanding the “great reset”
Gray statues matter.
The protests are just a cover for general vandalism. Time to bring back the public whipping post for such crimes.
They will take notice after a touch of the Cat-O-Nine-Tails”.
I think the left is well aware of what it is doing.
*** I wish someone in the media, or politicians, would tell us ... ***
You’ll be waiting a long time, friend. Most of the media has no clue what actual ‘reporting’ is. They wouldn’t know a fact from a opinion. Makes you wonder what they are teaching in J-schools these days.
The Monster Always Returns to the Castle to destroy its Creator.
Right - there is no wake-up call “for the Left.” However, this should be a wake-up call for the public at large...if they can somehow be informed this is going on. The news media certainly isn’t going to inform them of this.
Leftwing Reddit insisted he was a liberal AND a Democrat about a year back.
They downvoted and harassed people who pointed out that he was a Republican.
So no surprise to me that they toppled his statue.
Proof it isn’t a black cause but simply violence.
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