Posted on 07/30/2022 9:39:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Cornell University Library has removed a bust of President Abraham Lincoln and a bronze plaque of the Gettysburg Address after reportedly receiving a complaint.
Randy Wayne, a professor of biology at Cornell, said the library had removed the display, which had been there since 2013, after "someone complained," the College Fix reported .
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, university spokeswoman Rebecca Valli said the bust of Lincoln "was part of a temporary exhibit on the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address" and that it had been on display from 2013-2021. With the display gone, only an empty case remains.
Lincoln delivered the famous oration on Nov. 19, 1863, four months after the Civil War battle on the site claimed over 50,000 lives on both sides of the conflict —the most of any single battle of the conflict.
“Cornell proudly possesses one of five known copies of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln’s hand," Valli said. "The original is safely sequestered, with a digital facsimile on permanent display. Additionally, five electronic Lincoln exhibitions are available for 24/7 viewing online."
Wayne remains unconvinced of the university's version of events. In an email to the Washington Examiner, he said he did not believe that the university's statement "is the whole truth."
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One person that is a leftist.
Millions of conservatives could complain say about a statue of Lenin in the state of Washington and the statue would stay.
They should have kept the bust and the plaque in place and told the complainer to go pi$$ up a rope.
Great - let’s install Nazi leadership statutes! ..../sarc
I think the real problem of the complainer is that Lincoln was a Republican.
Mistake.
Cancel Lincoln. Worship the party of slavery.
SMH
“The original [Gettysburg Addres] is safely sequestered, with a digital facsimile on permanent display.”
I imagine the hate-America marxist crowd would love nothing better than destroying all of the original copies. Putting that extremely rare document under the care of a liberal university is a mistake.
Of course, putting it under the care of a Democrat government or a WOKE Smithsonian Institution is no better.
Someone must have told the students that Lincoln was a Republican.
The complainer does not exist.
The forces gathered to erase America’s history and replace it unfortunately does exist.
I would not surprised.
My cousin’s son graduated from Cornell.
She was not happy when he came home a left-wing moonbat.
He was not like that before.
We visited Cornell last year because reportedly it is a beautiful campus with large old stone buildings. And it is. But every building had posters and banners of BLM.
The stores were worse downtown. The windows were covered in posters. I could not tell what they were selling in some of them. We kept on driving.
Update! He’ll be baaaaack....
Note to Cornell: So much for principle, eh?
Someone complain that it is not there. It would be best if it were an alumnus with a checkbook.
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