Rioters deface monument honoring all-black regiment of Union Civil War soldiers

disrn ^ | Jun 6th, 2020 | Peter Heck

[MarvinStinson]

Exactly 123 years to the day that it was dedicated, the Shaw Memorial, a monument honoring the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, was defaced by rioters demanding justice for African-Americans.

On May 31, 1897, the monument was erected on Boston Commons to honor the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who bravely attacked Confederate forces at Fort Wagner.

One of the soldiers, Sgt. William Harvey Carney carried the American flag throughout the battle, never dropping it despite being shot 7 times. Carney was the first black American to win the Congressional Medal of Honor for action.

Liz Vizza, the executive director overseeing the public garden where the monument is located, was shocked that a memorial to black soldiers was defaced by rioters. She noted that the black men who fought in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment were not only risking death, but also the potential of being enslaved if they had been captured.

"This monument is considered one of the nation's greatest pieces of public art and the greatest piece to come out of the Civil War," [Vizza] told WBUR-FM.

The backside of the monument honoring Carney and the 270 men who lost their lives in the battle is now covered with profane graffiti reading "ACAB" (All Cops Are B*stards), "F*** 12" (police), "BLM," "No Justice, No Peace," and "Police are Pigs."

The exploits of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment were depicted in the 1989 Hollywood epic, "Glory."

[Sacajaweau]

Protest demographics looks like ages 20-30.

[Cecily]

The protests surely attract a certain percentage of sociopaths and psychopaths.

[xp38]

Someone posted a photo of some young white female protester giving the finger to a black policeman on another thread a day or two ago. The optics to say the least were not good. She was certainly not social distancing. :)

[headstamp 2]

[[[Someone posted a photo of some young white female protester giving the finger to a black policeman on another thread a day or two ago.]]]

Evidently its OK to be racist when you are dealing with a cop.

Put that in the same file as the defacing of the Black Soldier Civil War Monument.

The left is full of hypocrisy and state run media enables it.

[Guenevere]

I don’t know...
...but speculation only.....Morgan is for the riots, BLM
....and Denzel would be for a level of ‘peaceful protests’...

Again, just speculation, but as Denzel is one ( of few) of my favorite actors, I hope he’s on the right side of this!

[GOPJ]

When the left uses the mob to abolish police they'll replace them with party thugs.

The only people protected in a city will be party members... and their 'friends'... just like in every totalitarian hellhole since the dawn of time.

We've seen this movie before.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Mindless destruction. This ticks me off, thy are not just targeting Confederate monuments anymore.

They also hit World War One monuments, and someone tried to burn a Union Flag on the Cenotaph in London.

Morons.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Black Lives fail history class, again.

[dfwgator]

Why did African Americans destroy the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko at the White House?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvwiLyBFYi8

[Lurkinanloomin]

Erasing history is Taliban behavior.

Thanks Nikki Haley...../s

[MarvinStinson]

Damn the graffiti, full steam ahead! This is likely the only statue of Admiral Farragut in the whole country, whereas MLK has a statue, bust, relief, or mural in every major city and in many small ones, too, not to mention dozens of streets, schools, and libraries named after him.

[alexander_busek]

Hard core veganism possibly leads to mental instability. It’s the lack of fat, especially animal fat, in the diet.

Calories do certainly also play a role, but it is the lack of animal proteins (which are complete proteins) that is the deciding factor.

Regards,

[MarvinStinson]

The Polish ambassador in Washington Piotr Wilczek has called on the White House and the National Parks Service to restore the monument quickly to its original state.

“I am disgusted and appalled by the acts of vandalism committed against the statue of Thaddeus Kościuszko in DC, a hero who fought for the independence of both the US and Poland,” he wrote on Twitter.

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https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/rioters-vandalise-statue-of-polish-us-hero-tadeusz-kosciuszko-as-violent-protests-explode-across-america-13077

[dfwgator]

I’d like to see them try to do that in Poland.

[stuckincali]

Bkmrk

[bgill]

Pass the popcorn. Was waiting for the morons to do something like this.

[euram]

why would anyone be surprised by that? Most of the rioters have an average IQ of 85, and most can’t read beyond the 4th-grade level or even think for themselves. Their handlers tell them that all monuments put up by whitey are racist and must be vandalized or even destroyed. With that kind of BS hammered into their thick skulls, they joyful go running off to do what comes natural to them.

[DownInFlames]

I’d say even younger. Quite a few are riding skate boards.

[Fred Hayek]

I’m waiting for a university professor to call the soldiers of the 54th “nothing but a pack of Uncle Toms”.
Yes, they would sink that low.

[myerson]

Skate boards are used as deadly impact weapons. ‘Just the innocent-looking object to break a windshield, store front or head.