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VIDEO: Newark Unveils Harriet Tubman Monument Replacing Christopher Columbus
Breitbart ^ | 03-13-2023 | Amy Furr

Posted on 03/13/2023 12:32:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A monument to abolitionist Harriet Tubman was revealed Thursday in Newark, New Jersey, after a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus was removed.

“The city, which is now 48% Black and 37% Latino, according to the U.S. Census, was a known stop along the Underground Railroad, which was a network of routes escaped slaves followed to find freedom in states that had abolished slavery,” NBC News reported Friday. The current monument stands in place of the Columbus statue removed during the George Floyd riots that erupted in 2020, per Reuters:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; monument; newark; tubman
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To: ifinnegan
It's part of the Left's Overton Window process.

They're pushing Harriet Tubman now because she's not a radical leftist and someone who is agreeable to on all sides. That's why they're pushing her on the $20, and you got stupid people on our side agreeing with this "Fine with me, Harriet Tubman hated Democrats, etc."

But make no mistake, other more radical blacks are going to be pushed for Sainthood.

I've got nothing against Tubman, she was a great American, but she doesn't belong on money or statutes.

21 posted on 03/13/2023 1:16:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This whole movement of oversized, deconstructed and crude representations of historical figures IMO is meant to further degrade and demoralize us beyond what mere modern and post-modern art have already accomplished. Also, presumably a convenient cover for few woke artists having the skill to render truly honoring representations of said figures.

MLKJ in Boston is one, but I think the Marilyn Monroe lifted skirt sculpture is even worse.


22 posted on 03/13/2023 1:18:37 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These people must be as dumb as the inanimate statues they want to replace. It never occurred to them that they can have both statues or monuments so that everyone is included but they are selfish greedy narcissistic bastards who only think of themselves and their equity issues. They are subhuman trash for thinking this way.


23 posted on 03/13/2023 1:24:42 PM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty interesting since I highly doubt that Tubman ever lived in Newark, or the State of New Jersey. After the Civil War ended in 1865, she moved to Auburn, New York, and lived there the rest of her life. She’s buried in Auburn’s Fort Hill Cemetery. The Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. is an independent non-profit established by the A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn. They would have done better to take the money they spent on the monument, and donated it to the non-profit that runs her historic home site.


24 posted on 03/13/2023 1:38:21 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Tubman was also a Republican. I wonder if the stupid spooks in Newark, a Democrat strong hold in Democrat controlled Essex County are aware of that.


25 posted on 03/13/2023 2:46:17 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Pox

Hey, Newark is not the entirety of the state of NJ. Yeah it’s a dump but we’ve got everything from skiing to 127 miles of coast line and horse farms abound in southern NJ. Is the state Democrat controlled, yeah. But we’re not all liberals here.One of the biggest, if not the biggest Trump was held here in NJ.

What state are you from?


26 posted on 03/13/2023 2:50:41 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I love Harriet Tubman, a true American hero. So brave.

A shame to “pitch” her against Christopher Columbus. It is not respectful.


27 posted on 03/13/2023 2:51:26 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sane people avoid going to Newark unless they have to use the train station or attend a Devils game. Three blocks away from Downtown in any direction and life becomes a cr@pshoot.

It is better than it was years ago but aside from a very few neighborhoods, it still is largely a dangerous dump of a city.


28 posted on 03/13/2023 3:33:40 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: jmacusa

Ohio, and I took Basic Training at Ft. Dix.


29 posted on 03/13/2023 3:42:13 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Quite a few years back illustrations of her showed her carrying a rifle because handguns(which she actually carried) were BAD!


30 posted on 03/13/2023 3:52:30 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Pox

Dix is about thirty minutes southwest of me. In The Pine Barrens. Traveled through the Buckeye state twice in my life. Nice enough, I will admit. Didn’t impress me very much however.


31 posted on 03/14/2023 1:15:35 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: XRdsRev

The Devils don’t sell tickets well since they moved to No Man’s Land.

Besides the rail hub, the airport is the only other destination there.


32 posted on 03/14/2023 3:05:34 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: One4Life

There is a statue of George Floyd in a “wifebeater” T-shirt in front of Newark’s city hall.

The city should be boycotted/avoided (though most NJ residents already do that). In a few more years when it is a Hispanic city, it might be worth visiting.


33 posted on 03/14/2023 3:08:11 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Vlad0

The primary driver of Spain sponsoring Columbus was the fall of Constantinople decades earlier; Europe would have to deal with Ottoman middlemen for all trade with the East unless they could reach it from the opposite direction.


34 posted on 03/14/2023 3:10:29 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I don’t even count the airport LOL, on and off I-78 never need to head into town thankfully.

Newark is a real shame, it had a great history, I spent my early childhood four blocks over in Irvington and my parents had a coffee shop on Clinton before the riots.


35 posted on 03/14/2023 10:50:22 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: XRdsRev

It is a shame, but it ws inevitable when manufacturing left.

The airport is critical for NYC, not Newark itself (in fact, they were looking for a site for third international airport for NYC, and the closest they got was the former Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh NY - but it was too far).

Once these areas deemed their only economic future was as poverty hatcheries, the flight of wealth and talent was inevitable. The population would become one that found a statue of the criminal George Floyd in front of city hall acceptable; the Harriet Tubman statue just is to masquerade as Americans.


36 posted on 03/18/2023 5:30:26 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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