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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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David
6 years ago

Prime example of white saviour complex. The pat on the head is particularly disgusting and insulting. What a completey sad condescending choice of imagery

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Scott Gage
6 years ago

Remove that statue!

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Lisa McColgan
6 years ago

Do better, Boston.

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Abigail Caro
6 years ago

REMOVE this degrading statue, NOW!!!

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James Johnson
6 years ago

Get that racist statue out of here

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Please take this statue down.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Sadly I had no awareness of this statue but now that I do I feel it needs to be replaced.

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Jacquelyn Burdick
6 years ago

This statue is a piece of US history. It belongs in a museum so that history may not repeat itself, not out in parks or squares. Keeping these types of statues and symbols out like this is applauding horrific, outdated behavior. We know better, let's do better.

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Charles Ferreira
6 years ago

It absolutely needs to go. Now.

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Matthew Stucke
6 years ago

This statue is racist and HAS to go and be replaced by one dignifying black people.

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Claudia Donnet
6 years ago

Take this statue down. Love Tory's suggestion to make a museum of all crazy racism, to show it as a crazy thing of the past as it should be. You could also open an art contest for local artists to make a new statue to commemorate the event where there is no racist portray of black people.

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Iri Greco
6 years ago

This is an appalling view of anti-slavery. We know the history we don’t need to be reminded of what was taken from black people in terms of their pride, self-worth, honor, and stature. Let’s find better ways of telling the history of this nation

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Lauren Clarke-Mason
6 years ago

This statue has always troubled me. I avoid it at all costs. There are many different ways emancipation could be depicted through artistic expression. This is not it.

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Marcelle Gauvin
6 years ago

This must leave our state. Unacceptable.

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Addie Mae Weiss
6 years ago

Good clear arguments with suggestions for improvements - Bravo - too bad we didn’t listen to Fredrick Douglas when it was put up but ... change is possible.

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Richard Guerra
6 years ago

It’s not okay to have this statue up any longer. Thank you

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Nora Rodriguez
6 years ago

How did this thing get built?!

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Christine Avila
6 years ago

This has no place in our city!

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Jason Robb
6 years ago

Take it down!!

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Annette Chambers
6 years ago

Yeah, something a little less white savior would be a good choice.