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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Rick McLaughlin
6 years ago

This statue is disgusting. It needs to go.

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Zy Baer
6 years ago

This is an inaccurate and insulting portrayal of Black people and it needs to go!

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Justin Griffin
6 years ago

Take it down and out a new one up showing people standing side by side. Literally on the same level.

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Donte Fountain
6 years ago

Please Remove The Statue

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Anthony Mosley
6 years ago

Def has to go

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Ieasha James
6 years ago

This statue must go!!!!

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Susan W Morris
6 years ago

I have also written the Mayor, and my City Council member. Today I will call each one of them.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Should have been taken down way sooner. Wow.

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Brittany Klooster
6 years ago

Please replace this statue with a more equal depiction of Black people

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Marcos Valencia
6 years ago

This statue is ridiculous and does not represent what it’s intended to represent. This is demoralizing and shows a white man standing over a black man, that was “freed” from his oppression, as if he were a god and savior.

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Jeremy Lessard
6 years ago

Give the contract for a new memorial to a black artist or a committee of black artists.

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Barak
6 years ago

This statue has been problematic since it was erected. It should have been removed a long time ago. Let's do the right thing and remove it now.

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Sue Hamilton
6 years ago

Yikes.... yes, this has to go.

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Lara Hurley
6 years ago

Remove this statue!

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Janeen Williams
6 years ago

This statue needs to go - if we are truly trying to change the process and spectrum of RACISM we have to take accountability get rid of the images that are still haunting those that have been impacted.

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Audrina B Warren
6 years ago

Thank you for creating this petition! This statue never should have been created. (I also agree that there should be a museum to crazy things white people thought were a good idea)

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Stacey Clark
6 years ago

Take the statue down!

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Natasha Boswell
6 years ago

This is a painful reminder of the cruelty our ancestors have experienced. A black man on the ground . I don’t like it . Take it down

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Colleen Capodilupo
6 years ago

Take it down. Put up something that brings people a feeling of pride.

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Chellamal Keshavan
6 years ago

This is a disgrace