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Crews remove controversial Stephen Foster statue in Oakland
Tribune Review (Suburban Pittsburgh) ^ | 26 April 2018 | Bob Bauder

Posted on 04/26/2018 10:08:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman

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So Foster's "old stomping ground" is somewhere in storage in his hometown of Pittsburgh because the Oakland neighborhood has too many SJW type lunatics who are offended by a statue and willing to vandalize it to make their point? Is that the lesson here?

What if the local white trash were to vandalize a statue of St. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

1 posted on 04/26/2018 10:08:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman
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“The city plans to replace the statue with a memorial to black women”...of course.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 10:17:15 AM PDT by lacrew
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> What if the local white trash were to vandalize a statue of St. Martin Luther King, Jr.? <

Martin Luther King thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder (and said as much). So here’s a better question: What if the gays were to vandalize a statue of Martin Luther King?


3 posted on 04/26/2018 10:17:44 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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what is controversial about him?


4 posted on 04/26/2018 10:18:19 AM PDT by Bob434
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May they forever be haunted by The Ghost of Stephen Foster
5 posted on 04/26/2018 10:20:00 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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what is controversial about him?

He was a white person born before 1900.

6 posted on 04/26/2018 10:20:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Bring Stephen to Florida. Specifically, Suwannee County.


7 posted on 04/26/2018 10:20:30 AM PDT by Daaave ("You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.")
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He wrote about slaves, and there was one sitting by him on the statue.


8 posted on 04/26/2018 10:20:31 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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From the article: "...The statue had stirred controversy for years because it depicts Foster standing with a black man playing a banjo at his feet. Critics have described it as racist and demeaning to blacks. Others have argued that it depicts Foster gaining inspiration from a black musician..."

And then this: "...While some of Foster's songs contain graphic, derogatory depictions of slaves, he is credited with being among the first musicians to dignify and humanize blacks through his songs..."

We are indeed at war. The left, doing what it has done since time began, seeks domination by making their opponents "unpersons".

Lenin did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it. Castro did it. Pol Pot did it.

Now our "fellow Americans" do it.

9 posted on 04/26/2018 10:22:37 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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Statue in question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster_(sculpture)#/media/File%3AMonument_to_Stephen_Foster.jpg


10 posted on 04/26/2018 10:22:40 AM PDT by Skywise
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While some of Foster's songs contain graphic, derogatory depictions of slaves, he is credited with being among the first musicians to dignify and humanize blacks through his songs..

Fosters generation to be sure would get a kick out of current ghetto rap. /S

11 posted on 04/26/2018 10:24:56 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Insanity.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 10:28:53 AM PDT by freefdny
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Are these lyrics offensive?

1.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”
.
Chorus
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear their gentle voices calling, “Old Black Joe”.

2.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
Chorus

3.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”


13 posted on 04/26/2018 10:29:30 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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“The left, doing what it has done since time began, seeks domination by making their opponents “unpersons”. Lenin did it. Stalin did it. Mao did it. Castro did it. Pol Pot did it.”

Members of the United States Supreme Court did it to unborn children.

14 posted on 04/26/2018 10:31:24 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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It was an insult to Stephen Foster to have his statue in that liberal Shithole!!!


15 posted on 04/26/2018 10:32:37 AM PDT by ontap
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“Martin Luther King thought that homosexuality was a mental disorder (and said as much).”

Funny, the deified King didn’t have much of a problem with adultery, prostitution or beating whores. But he’s got a holiday named after him.


16 posted on 04/26/2018 10:41:12 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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When Reagan caved on the King holiday, he set into motion an unstoppable move to the left in the USA. Imagine, Jack French Kemp and James Danforth Quayle telling Reagan that he would win black support by simply signing the King bill.


17 posted on 04/26/2018 10:46:17 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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18 posted on 04/26/2018 10:54:14 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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To: dfwgator

what is controversial about him?

He was a white person born before 1900.


19 posted on 04/26/2018 10:56:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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To: jeffersondem

Yes.


20 posted on 04/26/2018 11:04:05 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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