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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Christine Williams
6 years ago

Take it down. The white savior narrative is a tool of white supremacy. End it now.

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jamie Hart
6 years ago

UNREAL!!!! Disgusting

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Lucy Weber
6 years ago

This statue is unacceptable and should never have stood in the first place, let alone for so long !! Black people do NOT need to be portrayed in a subjugated position. Please remove this statue immediately.

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Jane Graham
6 years ago

Please Mr. Walsh, take this horrible statue down. It’s offensive!

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Yves Mary Jean
6 years ago

Disgusting!

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Jennifer Brown
6 years ago

Remove it now

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Sabrina Charise Selk
6 years ago

This is not okay. It needs to go.

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Stacey Hamilton
6 years ago

I always felt the same way. It always struck a nerve even as a child, it never looked right to me. Why does it look like the man is being pet? I hate this statute and it’s triggering and should be taken down.

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Brian
6 years ago

Remove it now

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Heather Goss
6 years ago

This statue is offensive to the black community and should be safely removed

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Jacob Rogers
6 years ago

This should have never existed and it certainly shouldn’t exist today.

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Christopher Vélez
6 years ago

Should be relaxed by a statue of Lincoln and a freed slave embracing as equals.

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Meri Jenkins
6 years ago

Hideous, patriarchal privilege right in plain sight. Take it down!

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Robin Halperin
6 years ago

Take down this racist statue!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Take it down!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

This statue is degrading and isn't sending the right message to our children, please take this statue down

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Shannon Cipro
6 years ago

I think the museum idea is a good one. If the statues are all displayed somewhere with an explanation of when and why they were made, we can have a conversation about them and learn from our mistakes. If we just throw them all away then we just pretend they never happened...

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William Sadkin
6 years ago

Hire a black sculptor to make monuments honoring the ideal of freedom and equality, not the "white savior." Honoring the black heroes throughout American history. The same goes for the Shaw Memorial - same problem - white savior on horseback. Put him on the ground, equal with his troops.

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Rebecca Ramer
6 years ago

It looks like a statue of a man and his faithful dog. Disgusting!

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Danielle Scott
6 years ago

This needs to come down immediately and I’d like to see someone Black create a tribute to emancipation and more importantly Juneteenth.