I always love it when someone lectures the public on the “meaning” of the Statute of Liberty. It was dedicated in 1886, when Jim Crow laws and Social Darwinist theories were in full swing. People had very different attitudes back then. Lester has no idea what the “meaning” of the Statue of Liberty is. What Lester is doing is imposing his own modern view of what it means. All of us are entitled to do that, but no one is entitled to claim that they have a monopoly on its “meaning” as if they know why it was erected.
Can we return this foreign statue back to France?
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