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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Luke Baer
6 years ago

Tear this racist garbage down.

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Michael Bonds
6 years ago

Get rid of it

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Lauren Wojtkun
6 years ago

This statue is appalling and I can't believe it still exists!

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Karen Gilman
6 years ago

As a Bostonian I am shocked to see this.

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Brian Browne
6 years ago

Please remove this symbol of white supremacy. It is so blatantly racist. As a black man, I am offended by it's presence. Black people would never design a statue that portrayed them as an animal.

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Leslie Sullivan
6 years ago

Take this statue down!

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Kathryn Raymond
6 years ago

Tear it down!

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Yaritza Frias
6 years ago

This nation should never glorify an image like this.

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Rosemary Hale
6 years ago

Please remove!!

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Ash
6 years ago Featured

Not only is this racist but it is an atrocity of an artistic endeavor. I went to school for 5 years and got a BFA all so I could identify in excruciating detail all the ways this astonishingly tone-deaf statue is Objectively, Undeniably Ugly.

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Renelien Capitolin
6 years ago

I live in Boston. This statue is racist and disgusring.

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Staci Herbin
6 years ago

It must go!!

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Melissa Paradice
6 years ago

It’s long overdue. Remove this statue.

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Shahbaz
6 years ago

We need to get rid of this statue which symbolizes the white saviour complex -- which in its upliftment of white righteousness is a demeaning a way of thinking about Black people and Indigenous people and POC. You did not bestow freedom upon Black people -- they fought for it, died for it, advocated for it, and still do today.

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Rose Coveney
6 years ago

Please take this statue down ASAP. We need something appropriate in its place, and it needs to be determined by our black community.

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Ari Lechsinska
6 years ago

If he is free, why is he still kneeling before a white man? It's gotta go.

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Rob Delaney
6 years ago

f12

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Anonymous
6 years ago

I agree, let’s replace it wit something positive for all.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

It must go!

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Mike Charochak
6 years ago

I agree, this needs to go