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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Antifa is the communist youth party supported by Geo. Soros ,, they have become Soro’s private army and you are right about our schools and colleges not teaching American history for quite some time .
The democrat left of the past were the so called racist from the 1860s to the 1960s ,,, they were the ones who supported slavery in our country and they segregated the schools and other public places against the blacks in America . Perhaps that’s why they want so bad to purge the history of their leftist party . The dims are the ones who should carry the guilt . Thank God they have a corrupt media to aid this cover up of guilt .
Isn’t that the guy Obama claimed to be the presidential descendant of? Swore an oath on Abe’s Bible?
So much for that.
Maoists. Why are they free?
The Great Emancipator was racist?
How quickly they forget that Obama posed for photographs with a similar Lincoln bust (located in Springfield, Illinois) when announcing his 2008 campaign for the presidency and the Democratic National Committee has engaged in a disinformation campaign to mislead simpletons into believing that “The Great Emancipator” was a Democrat.
History does not matter. Destroying the American culture is all that counts.
They’ll have to tear down every Lincoln monument since his wife’s family, The Todds were slave owners.
Just give em some space to destroy whatever they want. Like Baltimore mayor said, they just need some space.
A rocket into space maybe
“The DFG’s really know how to show appreciation for the person who freed their asses”
And the 700.000 lives lost in the process.
“The Great Emancipator was racist?”
When Lincoln woke up from a 3 day drunk he said “I freed who?”
Lincoln was a teetotaler.
He should have drank.
Rather than trying to assign blame to President Trump for the vandalism of the Lincoln monument, why doesn’t Alderman Lopez fault the Chicago Public Schools for producing graduates who do not recognize President Abraham Lincoln who is on the penny, the five dollar bill and every automobile license plate in use in Illinois “The Land of Lincoln”???
The vandals have to be dumber than a box of rocks which makes them all CPS Honor Students.
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