Posted on 06/20/2021 12:14:50 PM PDT by rktman
A New Jersey city offered a tribute to George Floyd Wednesday by unveiling a 700-pound bronze statue of him outside Newark’s City Hall.
Mayor Ras Baraka and other officials attended the ceremony where it was presented, WPIX reported.
“Hopefully it inspires those who walk by to be more active, take part in activism,” Baraka commented.
Actor and filmmaker Leon Pickney commissioned the statue that was sculpted by artist Stanley Watts. The piece was donated to the city and will be on display for at least one year, the WPIX report said.
Pix 11 shared video footage of the unveiling ceremony, showing attendees pulling a tarp off the statue:
“The world needed a peaceful George. The world needed him relaxed and chilling, on a bench, and that’s what we produced,” Watts said.
In May, Lakers star LeBron James added his voice to others in the NBA who urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, describing Floyd as a man who “literally changed the world.” Breitbart News reported:
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Of all the comments none asked why wasn’t this done in Minneapolis Minnesota where it happened but instead Newark New Jersey?
The experiment has failed. Not just here. ANYWHERE it has been tried.
“The world needed a peaceful George.”
George needed a peaceful George.
How can she even stand up?
I’d put up a 1000lb statue of Robert E Lee.
a felon who changed the world.. LeBrain 2021
a felon who changed the world.. LeBrain 2021
You’re mixing metaphors. It’s the elephant that is in the room. Strangely (paradoxically?), despite his excessive size, the fact that you cant miss him, and his being so obviously in the wrong place, nobody in the room talks about him.
On the other hand there is the famously heavy gorilla. The nagging question with respect to the gorilla is, where, exactly, does an 800 pond gorilla sit?
Well, shhe definitely looks female. I heard some trans activists say women should get rid of their breasts.
Tear it down. Peacefully, of course.
What kind of culture turns a violent criminal into a hero and martyr ? And what becomes of them in that reality?
“A Monument to Stupid Criminals”
American progress, brought upon us by our progressives.
Isaiah 5:20:
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Wow WILL be upon them.
What stupidity not be able to tell a silk purse from a cow’s ear.
Very picayune. :-}
Sue the city’s elected punks. Most here will contribute.
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