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'Oh! Susanna' songwriter's statue removed amid criticism
Yahoo! ^
| 04/26/18
| AP
Posted on 04/26/2018 12:35:46 PM PDT by Simon Green
Edited on 04/26/2018 3:14:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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A 118-year-old statue of the "Oh! Susanna" songwriter was removed from a Pittsburgh park Thursday after criticism that the work is demeaning because it includes a slave sitting at his feet, plucking a banjo.
In October, the Pittsburgh Art Commission voted to take the Stephen Foster sculpture out of Schenley Plaza and find it a new home. For now, it will remain in a storage lot, out of the public view.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: dixie; foster; liberalfascism; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; purge; snowflakes; stephenfoster
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To: Billthedrill
To: rktman
It probably won’t be long until they ban the banjo too.
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posted on
04/26/2018 1:27:44 PM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
To: Simon Green
Expunge all evidence of the historic South, and you've just handed the deniers the very thing they've wanted for over 160 years.
Duh.
Hey, those things really didn't take place...
We see this often enough regarding the Holocaust as it is.
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posted on
04/26/2018 1:37:27 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
To: Simon Green
Way Down Upon The Swanee River....
To: eldoradude
It must have been painful having that banjo attached to your knee.
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:00:25 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:02:02 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Simon Green
Hmmm, just looked up the original lyrics and didn't see a verse about any slaves at his knees but I thought maybe this second verse might have got them riled.
I jumped aboard de telegraph,
And trabbled down de riber,
De lectric fluid magnified,
And killed five hundred nigger.
De bullgine bust, de horse run off,
I realy thought I'd die; Susanna, don't you cry.
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:03:50 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: eldoradude
Look at the original lyrics
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:05:02 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: dfwgator
29
posted on
04/26/2018 2:10:54 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: Simon Green
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:13:53 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Cordially.)
To: treetopsandroofs
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:27:31 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
To: Road Warrior ‘04
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:31:07 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
To: Simon Green
They’d really go nuts over Kate Smith’s “That’s Why Darkies Were Born”!
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posted on
04/26/2018 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
Blackhawk45
(Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.")
To: Simon Green
Trying their damndest to ersae slavery from history but they’ll never let us forget slavery....
I give up.
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posted on
04/26/2018 3:03:06 PM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking.)
To: eldoradude
If he’d sung of his true love DeVontre on his knees, all would be fine.
35
posted on
04/26/2018 3:04:28 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Simon Green
https://youtu.be/-uXzmAyDN74
A sign of the times, The Little Rascals. Around 9:45 is when some would get beyond triggered or just plain-out die.
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posted on
04/26/2018 3:08:12 PM PDT
by
jughandle
(Big words anger me, keep talking.)
To: Simon Green
So Taliban of the left. This will never end until they are punched in the face hard.
37
posted on
04/26/2018 3:56:16 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: jonrick46
Great picture.
It’s disgusting what the communists have been able to accomplish in this country, and they show no sign of slowing down their relentless attack on American unity.
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posted on
04/26/2018 3:59:47 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
To: philetus
Do you know the difference between a banjo and an onion? Nobody cries when you chop up a banjo.
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posted on
04/26/2018 6:24:45 PM PDT
by
GingisK
To: Simon Green
No more singing Dixie and no more using Dixie cups.
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posted on
04/26/2018 6:32:48 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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