Posted on 07/03/2020 6:48:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
Levar Stoney, the black Democratic mayor of Richmond, Virginia, made the executive decision to remove a statue of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Monument Avenue to "expedite the healing process for the city." This demonstrated how cities with liberal majorities can take down statues in an orderly fashion without vandalizing them or pulling them down. Or it demonstrates how Democratic mayors respond to pressure from the self-appointed statue-removal squad.
The left is interested in taking down all kinds of statues, which raises an obvious question: What about the statues the left has put up? No one's ripping those down.
In 2017, Peter Dreier at BillMoyers.com wrote a piece headlined "Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans?" He complained most of our country's statues celebrate military, political and business heroes. "Shouldn't we also honor the organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges, and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country?" he asked.
Then he listed a few examples of the left's heroes who have statues.
Exhibit A: "This statue of the pioneering and fearless birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, with a gag over her mouth, stands in Old South Meeting House in Boston. There are no schools named for the controversial socialist and feminist."
Honk if you find it bizarre to describe Sanger, a racist and eugenicist, as your avatar of "humane and inclusive" policies. Her creation, Planned Parenthood, is a leading destroyer of black lives before they start. But when black men and women cooperate in abortions, you can't possibly be allowed to tell them those extinguished lives matter. They were ... inconvenient.
Levar Stoney, the black Democratic mayor of Richmond, Virginia, made the executive decision to remove a statue of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Monument Avenue to "expedite the healing process for the city." This demonstrated how cities with liberal majorities can take down statues in an orderly fashion without vandalizing them or pulling them down. Or it demonstrates how Democratic mayors respond to pressure from the self-appointed statue-removal squad.
The left is interested in taking down all kinds of statues, which raises an obvious question: What about the statues the left has put up? No one's ripping those down.
In 2017, Peter Dreier at BillMoyers.com wrote a piece headlined "Where Are All the Monuments to the Progressive Americans?" He complained most of our country's statues celebrate military, political and business heroes. "Shouldn't we also honor the organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges, and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country?" he asked.
Then he listed a few examples of the left's heroes who have statues.
Exhibit A: "This statue of the pioneering and fearless birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, with a gag over her mouth, stands in Old South Meeting House in Boston. There are no schools named for the controversial socialist and feminist."
Honk if you find it bizarre to describe Sanger, a racist and eugenicist, as your avatar of "humane and inclusive" policies. Her creation, Planned Parenthood, is a leading destroyer of black lives before they start. But when black men and women cooperate in abortions, you can't possibly be allowed to tell them those extinguished lives matter. They were ... inconvenient.
"Boston artist Tory Bullock said the sculpture is a whitewashed portrayal that denigrates an entire group of people," NPR wrote. "This is a frozen picture. This man is kneeling, he will never stand up," Bullock said. "This image is problematic because it feeds into a narrative that black people need to be led and freed. ... Why is our trauma so glorified?"
Sanger, the racist and eugenicist, remains, while Lincoln was removed. He's apparently the enemy of the African American people. An image of emancipation is traumatic. The abortion of black babies is apparently therapeutic.
Leftists like Tory Bullock do not understand how people who gladly acknowledge that "black lives matter" would consider the left's moral posturing to be based more on ideology than reality. Those on the left speak angrily and endlessly of violated "black bodies," but -- to borrow a phrase from George Orwell -- they imply some black bodies are more equal than others.
First person to go for Lincoln should be shot.
Period.
Enough of this shi...er...Obama.
Maybe they can replace it with a statue of John Wilkes Booth.
KKK Senator Byrd has dozens of public facilities named after him, and his wife has another bunch also.
GOP should insist that these all be changed, and before anything else. And should we lose interest in the topic after that is done, oh well.
Bennidict Arnold might fit the bill ;-) oh wait, what was his position on late term abortions?
“expedite the healing process for the city.”
It seems like a festering wound that never heals...amputation may be the only solution?
More proof they have never studied history. Sanger had a sorrowful view of black women.
Blacks don’t generally defend Lincoln because he had no idea as to what to do with the freed slaves; even the Emancipation Proclamation came out after two years of war.
When NYC had more black abortions than live births a few years back and it hardly caused a stir, you understand why Sanger will always be venerated by the left. She designed the final solution for our race issues...
Nobody is stopping anybody from ripping this down.
All it takes is the will.
Its easy to defend such action.
I wouldn’t have believe it but its there:
She is truly wicked, PP is a truly evil entity.
There are multiple statues of KKK member Robert Byrd. Why are they standing while Lincoln’s statue is removed?
Point out that Margaret Sanger’s organization has done so much good for the black community. The ignorant BLM protestors will never get the irony of that statement.
Hey,that never occurred to me.Margaret Sanger was a proud,enthusiastic racist who believed that those pesky darkies (my word) shouldn’t be reproducing.Not only must her statues be pulled down but her “clinics” should get the Antifa treatment as well (when nobody’s inside of course).
Margaret Sanger.... eugenicist, butcher, one sick individual. I would love to be a psychiatrist interviewing her- she had some serious miswiring.
Regarding the Lincoln statue: “This image is problematic because it feeds into a narrative that black people need to be led and freed. ..”
True but thank goodness black folks saved the world from the Nazis and landed on the moon!
Margaret was white. Even though countless babies have been killed in her name, we can’t have anymore whitey statues.
smh
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