Posted on 08/26/2017 6:26:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A controversial statue in New York of a doctor who operated on enslaved women has been defaced by a vandal who spray-painted the word “racist” on it.
The Daily News reports that the graffiti defacing the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Central Park was discovered early Saturday. […]
Sims was known as the father of modern gynecology. But critics say his use of enslaved African-American women as experimental subjects was unethical. …
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Sims founded the first Women’s Hospital in the U.S. in 1855, which is now part of St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital. Will they be shutting down St. Luke’s?
What is the REAL reason that the statue was removed? Because his daughter was named Merry Christmas or maybe because his grandson was the architect that designed Mar-a-Lago?
Will the statue of his son-in-law John Allan Wyeth in the Alabama State Capitol be next?
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