Posted on 06/13/2020 12:25:07 PM PDT by robowombat
Abraham Lincoln Statue In Boston 'Has To Go,' Petition Demands The statue, located near the Boston Common, depicts a freed slave kneeling at Lincoln's feet while wearing shackles.
By Neal McNamara, Patch Staff
| Updated Jun 13, 2020 2:21 pm ET
The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group, is sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial." The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group, is sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial." (Shutterstock/Dominionart) BOSTON — Statues across the nation are being toppled amid an uprising against racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis — and one local activist has his sights set on getting rid of an Abraham Lincoln monument in downtown Boston.
Boston resident Tory Bullock started a petition this week to remove the Lincoln statute, located just south of the Boston Common. The statue depicts a shackled slave kneeling in front of Lincoln.
"It's supposed to represent freedom but instead represents us still beneath someone else," Bullock wrote in his petition. "I would always ask myself, 'If he's free why is he still on his knees?'"
Almost 5,000 people signed the petition by Saturday morning, agreeing with Bullock's interpretation of the statue.
"This outdated, never should have been created statue is a stark image of African pain, hurt and oppression," wrote Ukumbwa Sauti. "We must not allow it to stand and retrench racist, oppressive ideas. It is not a modern narrative and must come down."
"I like the idea of re-commissioning the statue to commemorate Emancipation differently," wrote Seth Kosto.
Subscribe Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's office has said the city may consider removing the statue, or repurposing it, according to CBS Boston.
Just this week, a statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston's North End was beheaded and eventually removed. Columbus is an important figure for Italian Americans, although many say he should not be memorialized because the explorer committed genocide when he arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, among other transgressions.
Across the country, statues of Confederate leaders like Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee have either been removed or taken over by protesters in recent weeks. On Monday, a statute of slave trader Edward Colston was torn down in thrown into a waterway in Bristol, England.
That's a fair question. Maybe they can just remove the slave?
But they will put up a statue of Saint Hussein obama whose Kenyan muslim ancestors were big slave traders. Got it.
Can we just remove the 5000 people that signed the petition?
liberals are piss*d when whites do it..Not so much when blacks are slave traders...
what petition? How about this you frauds, how about putting all these destruction of all of our history be put on the ballot?
Let the voters decide on whether to remove all historical statues that have white men. Yea, put it just like that on teh ballot. See what happens.
Who cares about these Twitter petitions.
Bollocks should ask himself why, even tho' he's been freed, he still chooses to wear chains?
They should modify the statue to make it more historically accurate by adding a Democrat with a bull whip.
Remove Lincoln. Keep the shackled slave.
> “I would always ask myself, ‘If he’s free why is he still on his knees?’” <
I’ll field that one. It’s because after Lincoln was assassinated, the Democrat-lead KKK worked hard to keep the freed blacks from standing.
Blacks aren’t free. They’re still on their knees... to the Democrat Party as they’ve always been! Get a clue Mr. Bullock. Symbolism over substance. Democrats have always used Blacks and always WILL until Blacks figure it out!
Or a demonicRAT shooting Lincoln in the head.
Maybe he’s on his knees giving thanks to the man who set him free.
Bkmrk
There wouldn't have been a slave trade if the African tribes hadn't continually supplied them with a product.
All the smug northerners on here who had no problem with vandalism and destruction of Confederate monuments and have no problem with renaming military bases, well, here you go. This was as plain as the nose on your face to those of us with even a modicum or foresight. You made this bed now lie in it, no sympathy from me.
This is getting good.
Let the loons go off.
Rat Party needs to be labeled as the Looter Party and this just confirms it.
Funny how the Africans sold their own people to the slave traders and the Muslims have been doing it for centuries, but its the whites that are the problem and need to be eradicated. The tiger in the cage can only be poked so much, they are nearing the end
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