Posted on 08/21/2017 7:47:07 AM PDT by C19fan
rotesters gathered in New York's Central Park on Saturday to demand the removal of a statue of a 19th century doctor who conducted experiments on African American women slaves. A bronze likeness of Dr. James Marion Sims stands at the entrance of Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. The statue, which was originally dedicated in 1894, stands to honor the man considered to be 'the father of modern gynecology.' According to the New York City Parks Department, Sims, who was born in South Carolina in 1813, owned slaves.
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They should replace it with a statue more palatable to the left, Margaret Sanger.
I guess there’s statues of Margaret Sanger somewhere. I’ve never kept up but instead of removing statues to this racist killer, just defund Planned Parenthood.
Because the left keeps him and his minions safe and nobody has ever had the balls to lock him up........just like with Soros!
Ah, Bill Ayers and where did he go.
The former bomber and co-founder of the communist terrorist Weather Underground organization was Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The two had worked together closely from the year Ayers hosted a political launch party for Obama, in 1995, to 2002. At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, “the brainchild of Bill Ayers,” they funneled more that $100 million to radical groups like ACORN and Gamaliel, which used the funds to promote radical education. This initiative was also promoted by Arne Duncan who was Secretary of Education under Obama’s time in office. Also as board members of the Woods Fund, Ayers and Obama channeled money to ACORN and the Midwest Academy.
When initial White House visitor logs were released in 2009, the administration quickly dismissed speculations about visits by “William Ayers.” That was a different William Ayers Americans were told. The Obama administration is still appealing an order to release the other visitor logs in response to a lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch and others. It appeared, however, that “the” Obama-friendly Bill Ayers had been visiting Washington, D.C. for education-related matters. How many Bill Ayres would want to see the president?
President Obama, worked with Ayers in Chicago, and this kind of collaboration is not entirely surprising. We are left, however, wondering about the precise nature of the role that Ayers was playing in the development of the federal education plan. But his participation in that conference clearly suggests he is playing a role of some kind.
This guy was absolute poison with a number of connections in the Obama white house during his tenure. He was also one of the major players in the destruction of public education for the country with the changes in curriculum leaning toward more progressive subjects like the instructions on homosexuality and classroom taught theories on Islam. One not needed and the other illegal to teach being a religion instructed in a school classroom.
rwood
“Don’t any of these people work?”
Yes. There are many organizations paying them good money to create problems. And there are some organizations that are publicly funded like the ACLU.
There should be classes in school on this. In the right hands, this could be a seven figure occupation. And it’s been around for years formerly being called mercenaries.
rwood
J Med Ethics. 2006 Jun; 32(6): 346–350.
Abstract
Vesicovaginal fistula was a catastrophic complication of childbirth among 19th century American women. The first consistently successful operation for this condition was developed by Dr J Marion Sims, an Alabama surgeon who carried out a series of experimental operations on black slave women between 1845 and 1849. Numerous modern authors have attacked Sims's medical ethics, arguing that he manipulated the institution of slavery to perform ethically unacceptable human experiments on powerless, unconsenting women. This article reviews these allegations using primary historical source material and concludes that the charges that have been made against Sims are largely without merit. Sims's modern critics have discounted the enormous suffering experienced by fistula victims, have ignored the controversies that surrounded the introduction of anaesthesia into surgical practice in the middle of the 19th century, and have consistently misrepresented the historical record in their attacks on Sims. Although enslaved African American women certainly represented a “vulnerable population” in the 19th century American South, the evidence suggests that Sims's original patients were willing participants in his surgical attempts to cure their affliction—a condition for which no other viable therapy existed at that time.
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One would hope that the demonstrators had read up on the medical history of vesicovaginal fistula before rushing out to tear down a statue, but we know that is very very unlikely.
The Khmer Rouge didn’t like people who wore glasses.
American antifa don’t like gyno statues.
I can’t see how this is really all that different.
Waiting to see them take down the statues of Robert Byrd and other racist Democrats. Holding my breath not!
Soros' activists are giving a chilling exhibition of their ability to manipulate the susceptible.
Understand the way the Left promotes all that is base, while pretending a faux virtue: Lies Of Socialism
The bigger sinister goal, beyond dividing us now, is of course to erase history so the US and its Constitution can be taught as hopelessly evil and backward, needing to be replaced.
But another sad side effect is the increased uglification of our public spaces (also long a leftist goal), as no modern sculptures come close to the elevation and grandeur of our traditional representations.
These people have been systematically taught to hate in the present climate, which has been created and supported by a totalitarian minded Academic/Media Complex.
“Father of Modern Gynecology?”, they’re taking down a statue of Bill Clinton?
let’s see... which religion is it that bans all kids of statues?
They want to put up statues of people like JayZ and Beyonce.
Col. Sanders must be deposed! < /sarc >
Nothing says ‘Primum non nocere’ like Dr. Mike Tyson.
The eternal question, Lydia!
I’m waiting for the LGBT to throw a rope around MLK’s statues to pull them down for his opposition to homosexuals.
Yeah, their hate games can go on for a long time. Just ask the Taliban.
“Don’t any of these people work?”
They don’t have to they are either being paid by George Soros or the welfare system.
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