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 ...
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.
Some did…
Some did, but by no means all.................
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....)
Oh. I get it. Native Americans paraded around almost naked all the time. Didn’t care about winter and insects and stuff.
As compared to the Ute Indian statue in front of the Utah State Capitol?
It’s a handsome statue
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.
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)
“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!
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.
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