Posted on 06/09/2020 6:48:08 AM PDT by SJackson
BOSTON — A monument recognizing the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army during the Civil War was defaced during Sunday's protests.
Multiple demonstrations had gathered in Boston peacefully throughout the day, lending their voices to the nationwide anger sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died on Memorial Day after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer.
The monument, which stands across from the Massachusetts State House, is currently surrounded in plywood to protect it while it undergoes restoration to reinforce the sword held by Robert Gould Shaw.
After Sunday's demonstrations turned violent and destructive, the plywood was left covered in obscene graffiti.
"A thousand men signed up just after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, just think about that," said Liz Vizza, executive director of Friends of the Public Garden. "These are men who, if they were captured in the south, would be enslaved or murdered. But this cause was so important to them, they signed up to go fight for their freedom."
The memorial has been vandalized before – with paint in 2012, and the sword was broken off in 2015 and 2017.
Guess black military lives do not matter.
These riots are not about race or racism (except for the misguided few), but about the destruction of the USA. So a black memorial means nothing to them
So it was the wood surrounding the monument that was defaced.
Yes but the fact that they needed the wood speaks volumes.
Wasn’t this defaced last week or so? I remember hearing in the radio a good while back.
Bueler?
No, because the officers in the 54th were crackas.
More evidence that historically ignorant white antifa kiddies have run amok...attacking a memorial to real black freedom fighters...ahoes.
Democrats protesting against a statue memorializing those that fought against Democrat slaveowners....
They probably thought it was a civil war monument honoring Confederates.
And not a word from moron Mayor Marty Walsh...
Or black police officers. This has more to do with wannabe Bolsheviks and “free stuff” than grief/anger over an unjust killing. The herd over on the left quarter needs a serious culling.
Those black soldiers were just working for whitey.
“Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go.” This is the result; not even the slightest, rudimentary knowledge of American history, which might have otherwise informed these morons.
The BLM IQ exhibition
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