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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jul 2, 2020 21:02:46 GMT
Boston city officials say they will remove a much-debated statue of Abraham Lincoln that depicts the 16th president freeing a slave.
The Emancipation Group statue in Boston is a replica of the original Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., and shows Lincoln standing over a slave named Archer Alexander who is on one knee but is no longer in bondage. The word “Emancipation” is engraved on the base.
The original memorial in Washington was erected in 1876 and funded solely by freed slaves, “primarily from African American Union veterans,” according to the National Park Service. The statue was the idea of Charlotte Scott, a freed slave who launched a fundraiser to pay “homage to the President who had issued the Emancipation Proclamation that liberated the slaves in the Confederate States,” according to the NPS website. Frederick Douglass spoke at the statue’s dedication.
A petition calling for the statue’s removal gained more than 12,000 signatures, according to the Boston Globe.
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Post by barb43 on Jul 2, 2020 22:14:53 GMT
The original memorial in Washington was erected in 1876 and funded solely by freed slaves, “primarily from African American Union veterans,” according to the National Park Service. The statue was the idea of Charlotte Scott, a freed slave who launched a fundraiser to pay “homage to the President who had issued the Emancipation Proclamation that liberated the slaves in the Confederate States,” according to the NPS website. Frederick Douglass spoke at the statue’s dedication. A petition calling for the statue’s removal gained more than 12,000 signatures, according to the Boston Globe.
The people who thought up this statue, and funded it, and celebrated its dedication are to be remembered and honored themselves.
The people who are wreaking havoc on our statues and memorials around the country are essentially the equivalent of braindead zombies. They have little to no intelligence, and absolutely no respect for anyone. If their parents are living, they should be ashamed of their offspring. And they should turn them in to the authorities for prosecution.
As for the 12,000 signatures on a petition - big whoop-te-doo. What is the 2020 population of Boston? 4,309,000. If all of those 12,000 signatures are of people living in Boston, they represent just under three one-thousandth's of 1% of the population (that's 0.00278%). That's a flyspeck! Why would any self-respecting community even pay any attention to that flyspeck?!?
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Post by scott on Jul 7, 2020 21:17:18 GMT
This is one of those times when I dislike living in this area but where else can I go? First BLM demonstrators defaced the Massachusetts 54th Regiment monument (all black civil war regiment made famous again in the movie Glory) and now this.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jul 7, 2020 23:30:15 GMT
This is one of those times when I dislike living in this area but where else can I go? First BLM demonstrators defaced the Massachusetts 54th Regiment monument (all black civil war regiment made famous again in the movie Glory) and now this. Sadly, this sort of nonsense seems to be happening everywhere lately. Here in Chambersburg PA, some of the "anti-racism" folks are even getting bent out of shape over the Civil War Memorial fountain in our town square because there is a statue of a civil war soldier standing guard at the south facing side of the fountain. It's a Union soldier not a confederate one, but I guess some of these "protesters" are too dumb to know the difference. The fountain was erected in 1887 to commemorate the rebuilding of Chambersburg after most of the town was burned down by confederate soldiers in 1864, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. |
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Post by barb43 on Jul 8, 2020 2:26:50 GMT
This is one of those times when I dislike living in this area but where else can I go? First BLM demonstrators defaced the Massachusetts 54th Regiment monument (all black civil war regiment made famous again in the movie Glory) and now this. Sadly, this sort of nonsense seems to be happening everywhere lately. Here in Chambersburg PA, some of the "anti-racism" folks are even getting bent out of shape over the Civil War Memorial fountain in our town square because there is a statue of a civil war soldier standing guard at the south facing side of the fountain. It's a Union soldier not a confederate one, but I guess some of these "protesters" are too dumb to know the difference. The fountain was erected in 1887 to commemorate the rebuilding of Chambersburg after most of the town was burned down by confederate soldiers in 1864, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. "some of these protesters" - ?? I think most of the people who are vandalizing and toppling statues and other historical items are too dumb to know anything about the item they're damaging or destroying. 
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Jul 8, 2020 11:08:27 GMT
"some of these protesters" - ?? I think most of the people who are vandalizing and toppling statues and other historical items are too dumb to know anything about the item they're damaging or destroying.
So far, we have not had any of the rioting or violence here that many places have had.
Apart from getting a little too loud the first couple of nights, nearly all of our local protestors have been totally peaceful.
They may be misguided, but at least they are sincerely protesting for a cause that they truly believe in, unlike many places where the protests seem to be mainly a cover for rioting and looting or a deliberate effort to cause trouble for its own sake.
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