[narby]

This story has lit up the phone lines on local Phoenix talk radio. I'm amazed that this story has been buried so deep, and no one has noticed till now.

[Grig]

Oh, so when is the statue of a white Martin Luther King Jr. going to be ready?

[Phantom Lord]

Wonder if this story is on DU anywhere? I tried to find it and couldnt. Wonder what they are saying about it if it is. Probably fully supportive of it.

[d14truth]

Do you know if these sculptors are going to do the artworks for the Clinton 'Lie-bury'? They would probably do an excellent job of portraying our '1st Black President'. {;~)

Of course, 'Slick' might object to them doing a 'reverse Michael Jackson' on him.

[Little Ed]

They wouldn't have changed it if all three of the men were black. Everyone wants to appease all fo the different groups because they're afraid of being seen as "racist." Actually, along with crap like this, a lot of the commercials on TV since 11 Sept make me think of the Tower of Babel, the One World Order, and the coming Kingdom of Antichrist.

[Woodkirk]

Maybe they will do the same thing at Mount Rushmore -- Who would be the lucky President [s]?

[agave]

Ira Hayes must be rolling over in his grave.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

If I was a black person I would be outraged at being singled out in order to be added to this statue. Nothing worse than racial profiling keeping people from getting the respect the deserve and earn, and not charity.

[sweetliberty]

Can you blame them for being angry. The politically correct whiners don't give a flying d**n about about accuracy in history or cultural representation. It is BS. If we are going to enact ridiculous legislation then lets do it to control political correctness. At least that would be a service to the country, which is more than legislating the misrepresentation facts is doing.

[The Duke]

I wish my country didn't suck.

[Museum Twenty]

I have not seen a photo of the statue. Perhaps this is untrue (an urban legend)?

[spodefly]

This is the top headline in today's OpinionJournal from WSJ: Best of the Web Today - January 10, 2002

By JAMES TARANTO

Ministry of Information
New York's firemen are called the "bravest," but it seems the Fire Department is utterly craven. The Weekly Standard's Beth Henary reports that the FDNY is rewriting history in order to satisfy "multitulcutural" sensitivities:

Firefighters Dan McWilliams, Billy Eisengrein, and George Johnson were captured in a now-famous photo, raising a flag, Iwo Jima-style, over the ground-zero wreckage. Copies of the photo--both legal and illegal--have spread throughout the world; the Record, the New Jersey paper that holds the copyright, is not enforcing it. So it would have seemed reasonable for the statue commemorating the moment, a model of which was unveiled on December 21, to have replicated the photo exactly.

Not so. At the request of the New York Fire Department, the sculptors who worked on the statue replaced McWilliams, Eisengrein, and Johnson--all white--with firefighters of three different races, because people of all races contributed to the rescue effort. While that is certainly true, the fact remains that it was those three firefighters who hoisted the flag. After all, the men depicted in the Iwo Jima monument, fashioned after another famous photo, are the individuals shown in the picture.

END

[Revolting cat!]

There was a photo album published a few years back titled "The Commissar Vanishes". In showed pairs of photographs from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era, the originals and the retouched versions where the party hacks and revolutionary heroes out of favor or out in Siberia, or out shot dead, were "disappeared" using whatever retouching technique was available then (it wasn't airbrushing, was it?) It was quite fascinating and funny too. Interestingly enough, many of these photographs had had two lives, that is too say the originals had been published and sometimes displayed in government offices just a few years before the new, improved versions replaced them.

I see now that there is a web site devoted to this very topic, somewhere here.

Can somebody explain the difference between the Commissar Vanishes and the topic we are discussing here today? Oh, I see, the liberals would explain to us that they are well intentioned in such "improvements".

[VermiciousKnid]

I noticed it HERE, but nobody replied.

Regards,

[Ima Lurker]

Just what races are being depicted on the statue?

[KeyLargo]

The pc crowd didn't even wait a number of years to change history as has been done with names of public schools etc., which wiped away Washington and all of the other great leaders and inventors of our country and replaced their names with the usual clap trap names. Because you know that all of those dead white guys were nothing but slave owners, so as the revisionists party line goes.

[xm177e2]

This photograph is as sacred as the famous photograph and sculpture of the U.S. Marines raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. ...

They raised and re-raised the flag a couple times to get a good picture there.

But it is sacred, this is just as bad as wiping the black victim out of the Boston Massacre, which was done in a piece of pro-Revolutionary propaganda.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

HEY WHATCHA KNOW THESE GUYS ARE WHITE

[junta]

PC is ususally just tedious this is an embarrasment.

[csvset]

Hey, it could have happened that way!*

*I'm surprised one isn't wearing Islamic headgear, you know, in the "I am an American" sort of way.

[sibb1213]

I heard about this on FOX yesterday on Hume's show. It just makes me sick!! Can't the PC crowd just let things be accurate for once. Three white brave firemen raised that flag. Now I know there were all races of men that were heros, lost their lives, and worked day and night to clean up the site but it was three white men that raised the flag. Let history stand the way it was enacted.