Posted on 08/18/2017 1:57:39 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A ninety-year-old bust of Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president, was destroyed in a South Side Chicago neighborhood overnight on Wednesday.
15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez criticized the destruction of the statue in a Facebook post on Wednesday evening.
“What an absolute disgraceful act of vandalism. This bust of Abraham Lincoln, erected by Phil Bloomquist on August 31, 1926, was damaged & burned,” Lopez wrote. “If anyone has any information regarding this act, please contact the police or my office immediately.”
The bust is located near 69th Street and Wolcott in Chicago’s Englewood district on the city’s Near South Side. Phil Bloomquist erected the tribute to Lincoln on Aug. 31, 1926.
Along with the destruction of the face of the statue, vandals spray pained “F**k Law” on the base.
Alderman Lopez’ Facebook page erupted with attacks on Lincoln and his legacy with few defending him as the Great Emancipator that helped put an end to chattel slavery of black people at the end of the Civil War. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, by the Southern actor John Wilkes Booth, who was angry at Lincoln for freeing the slaves and defeating the Confederate secessionists.
Lincoln is called the Great Emancipator because he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to abolished slavery in the rebellious Southern states during the Civil War. This courageous political decision was the first step in the eventual full abolition of slavery with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
The destruction of the 90-year-old statue lends credence to President Donald Trump’s contention that left-wing activists will never be happy with merely destroying Confederate statues.
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Some peeps are demanding that they become slaves?
These people may eventually destroy Martin Luther King statues because MLK foolishly demanded that people NOT be judged by the color of their skin. In modern terms, that’s racism, because everything is always about race today.
But Abe was white and Republican so he's a racist. That's the mindset of your typical leftist these days. He might as well nave been wearing a white hood that night in Ford's Theatre.
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I saw a story where a neighborhood resident said this was done around July 4th; just general vandalism.
The after photo appears to be an improvement to my eyes.
The DFG’s really know how to show appreciation for the person who freed their asses
Those idiots don’t even know who President Lincoln was or what he accomplished. They just want to destroy.
Lincoln was a white man, you know.
Mt. Vernon also has to be turned into a bath house for LGBTQ++ perverts.
This proves these mind numb robots know very little about American history .
“The after photo appears to be an improvement to my eyes.”
They turned Lincoln from white to black which would certainly allow him to better fit in with the neighborhood.
Some “inner city” person must have thought that this was Jefferson or one of those evil slaveowners, and not the one why freed the slaves. Not too smart!
They turned him black that’s about it as I can see.
what history? they don’t teach history anymore. they only care about getting what others have worked for, built and defended, for free. They are scum...come to my house and I’ll blow their asses away.
Lincoln was a
Tyrant eg banned habeus corpus
Hated blacks eg blacks were separate and inferior
Mass murderer eg post war destroyed the south
Greedy eg money, money
But he did have distinguished features eg disease
His statue looks better without the long pinoccio nose of lies.
Christian Abolitionists freed the slaves.
Lincoln wanted the Northern slaves.
He freed lower slaves to hurt the South.
The South paid 90% of the Fed.
Read the Fascist Alert and check out the accompanying pic.
Lincoln Memorial was already vandalized
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/15/lincoln-memorial-defaced-with-explicit-graffiti.html
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