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Pittsburgh Art Commission votes to recommend removal of Stephen Foster statue
WTAE ^ | October 25, 2017

Posted on 10/26/2017 4:33:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Reign of Terror will go on as long as we let it.


21 posted on 10/26/2017 5:26:29 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: bagster

I was thinking more of a particular scene from Blazing Saddles, but that one’s OK, too.


22 posted on 10/26/2017 5:27:30 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Haha....yea that was a good one.


23 posted on 10/26/2017 5:36:12 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Given enough time, the Dems can make Pittsburgh look just like Detroit. Shame on the politicians in this once proud city.


24 posted on 10/26/2017 5:43:29 AM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
If this statue is removed, than all old time music should also be banned since it glorifies slavery.

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Milwaukee Blues

25 posted on 10/26/2017 5:46:30 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I wonder if the Pittsburgh Art Commission realizes that Foster was an abolitionist who tried to humanize blacks at a time when a lot of people were stone cold racists. I guess that doesn’t matter. Some of his songs used the word “darkies” and that’s enough to condemn him to Hell by the standards of our times.


26 posted on 10/26/2017 6:05:20 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: nickedknack
#7: American Taliban: “Committed to the complete erasure of U.S. history”

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Buddhas of Bamiyan

27 posted on 10/26/2017 6:14:14 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: TigerClaws

28 posted on 10/26/2017 6:20:45 AM PDT by kitchen (If you are a violin bow maker or restorer please ping me.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The destruction of every AMERICAN by the commie piggies continues.


29 posted on 10/26/2017 6:23:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Mostly because there doesn’t seem to be much pushback.


30 posted on 10/26/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT by daler
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To: bagster

Thank you.

That scene comes to mind everytime I hear a reference to Foster LOL. Great movie.


31 posted on 10/26/2017 6:28:10 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Whites are apparently unable or unwilling to stand up for themselves.

Evil we must be...

Just wait until whites eventually become a minority and still exhibit the same unwillingness. It won’t be pretty.


32 posted on 10/26/2017 6:29:51 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The statue is by Italian immigrant Giuseppe Moretti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Moretti


33 posted on 10/26/2017 6:41:45 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: jmaroneps37

The Reign of Terror will go on as long as we let it.


In this case, I wonder, and don’t know the answer to this, but wonder, who are the liberal idiots on the Pittsburgh Art Commission, how do those liberal idiots get jobs on that commission, and how is it that they have power to get this statue removed?

Is the leftist long march through the institutions such that, they have infected just about everything in society by this time? So then, leftists are found everywhere nowadays, infecting everything in our society?


34 posted on 10/26/2017 6:45:05 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: PghBaldy

I’m tempted to sculpt large piles of crap to place on all these empty pedestals... and engraved on each hardened turd the words “This POS was made possible by the race baiters of the Democratic Party.”


35 posted on 10/26/2017 6:46:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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who are the liberal idiots on the Pittsburgh Art Commission, how do those liberal idiots get jobs on that commission

Old article so not sure if same idiots are involved but...artists and architects who volunteered. Now they may have to fill it according to racial quotas for all I know. They had terrible taste in art then ... if it's the same bunch then they are addressing Pittsburgh's "paucity of art" by actually removing one of the few worthwhile examples of art there is in town...and that is not the commission's reason for being. It was supposed to review proposed public works not remove public works.

So if no one specifically gave them the power they are just assuming it because no one is stopping them.

http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20020220artcomm0220p3.asp

36 posted on 10/26/2017 7:03:44 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In the evenin’ by the moonlight
You could hear those darkies singin’
In the evenin’ by the moonlight
You could hear those banjos ringin’
How the old folks would enjoy it
They would sit all night and listen
As we sang in the evenin’ by the moonlight

This is remembered from sixth grade music class. When I was a bit older, “darkies” was replaced by “young folks”. PC was beginning.


37 posted on 10/26/2017 7:39:59 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

And how many of this group are black? I’m getting damned tired of this black guilt crap. I don’t own a slave, none of my ancestors did, why should MY world be altered as punishment for something I didn’t do?


38 posted on 10/26/2017 7:41:05 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: kitchen

“What in the Wild World of Sports is goin’ on here?!”


39 posted on 10/26/2017 7:50:17 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: piasa
Commissioners

Rob Indovina, Acting Chair
Mark Baskinger
Sarika Goulatia
Kathryn Heidemann
Kilolo Luckett
Kary Mercer-Arimoto
Andrew Moss

Data from Pittsburgh Art Commission - no email addresses.

However, they are appointed by the Mayor - Bill Peduto (D). No email address found - half the links there return "Not Found". Typical.

40 posted on 10/26/2017 1:15:01 PM PDT by Oatka
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