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Muscogee dismayed by nearly naked statue of Georgia ancestor
mypanhandle ^ | 02/07/2022

Posted on 02/07/2022 7:56:02 AM PST by devane617

There’s a problem with putting someone on a pedestal: Exposed on all sides, a hero to some can be seen as a traitor to others.

Atlanta plans to install a statue of a Native American man atop a 110-foot (34-meter) column in its new Peace Park, where it will tower over statues of 17 civil rights icons, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Developer Rodney Mims Cook Jr. calls Chief Tomochichi “a co-founder of Georgia” who prevented massacres by warmly inviting British Gen. James Oglethorpe to colonize his people’s land in 1733.

“They became the closest of friends, initiating from the moment of Georgia’s founding a practice of diplomatic negotiation and cohabitation,” a narrator asserts in a video promoting the park. “Nearly three centuries later, Georgia’s tradition of peaceful coexistence continues to thrive.”

But Cook didn’t ask the Muscogeeabout their ancestor, and now that he’s unveiled the $300,000 bronze statue, historians say it’s all wrong. “Disrespectful” and “incredibly inappropriate” are some of the reactions three tribal historians shared with The Associated Press.

The nearly naked figure presents an offensive and historically inaccurate conception of Native Americans as primitive savages, and glorifies a heavily mythologized figure blamed by the Muscogee for initiating a century of ethnic cleansing and land loss. They say Atlanta is erasing them again, acting as if they vanished without a fight after handing over their land and heritage.

(Excerpt) Read more at mypanhandle.com ...


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To: devane617

Take your choice of others here.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/312718767845794592/


21 posted on 02/07/2022 8:33:48 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (FREE AT LAST from Facebook Jail! Unrepentant! On GAB now. Some real cranks there!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Woman With Her Child In A Cradle American Indian 1834 By George Catlin ...

Maybe not those colors exactly, but they were colorful just the same, depending on what dyes were available to them locally.

22 posted on 02/07/2022 8:42:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Some did…


23 posted on 02/07/2022 8:55:00 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Some did, but by no means all.................


24 posted on 02/07/2022 9:03:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: devane617

Personally, I think General Sherman had the right idea. Shouldn’t he have a statue erected in Hot’lanta?

(Maybe “Hot’lanta” was a poor choice of words....)


25 posted on 02/07/2022 9:14:07 AM PST by moovova
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To: devane617

Oh. I get it. Native Americans paraded around almost naked all the time. Didn’t care about winter and insects and stuff.


26 posted on 02/07/2022 9:18:03 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Persevero

27 posted on 02/07/2022 9:18:17 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: devane617

As compared to the Ute Indian statue in front of the Utah State Capitol?


28 posted on 02/07/2022 9:19:23 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: devane617

It’s a handsome statue


29 posted on 02/07/2022 9:25:05 AM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever wa day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Persevero
Looks like he had a gym membership. Here's a photo from Brazil of a native who has no contact with civilization:


30 posted on 02/07/2022 9:36:32 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Rio

The statue has scary eyes, and the lower right forearm seems abnormally twisted. Plus, it seems the artist gave the guy a six-pack but got tired on his way up the chest and ended with cellulite under the pecs and syringe engravings around the neck.

Worst. Statue. Ever.


31 posted on 02/07/2022 10:02:28 AM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: devane617

It should not tower over MLK because the founder of Georgia Was MLK! He was enslaved at the time and led his people in the struggle to free them from white capitalism. (/liberal)


32 posted on 02/07/2022 11:16:30 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“It should not tower over MLK because the founder of Georgia...”

Or, Stacy Abrams. Imagine a statue of Stacy Abrams on a 110’ pedestal towering over Atlanta!


33 posted on 02/07/2022 12:09:53 PM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: devane617

Mechanical problem associated with that idea. Put in a pedestal and mount a statue of her on top and you have a severe lever arm problem when the wind blows. And something that large would probably cause a seismic event if it ever blew over.


34 posted on 02/07/2022 3:22:38 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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