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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Rev Louis F Kavar
6 years ago

The statue is offensive, both the Black men as well as to Lincoln's heritage.

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Kathleen Yuska
6 years ago

Please remove this and replace it with a black artist’s interpretation of emancipation. Tell our history from all sides of color.

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Ann Hill
6 years ago

This has been a shameful blight on the city for 200 years. Time for a change!

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Maya smith
6 years ago

This statue is dehumanizing, demeaning, and MUST GO

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Eve Costarelli
6 years ago

Get rid of them all!!! It’s time for statues honoring true hero’s not murderers, rapists, and rich white fools

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Anonymous
6 years ago

The statue reflects a sentiment of its times, but it's a sentiment that has long since passed.

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Karyn Coughlin
6 years ago

Please take this offensive statue down.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

please remove this statue

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Victoria
6 years ago

It's 2020. Let's start acting like it.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Please remove this statue

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Paula Coar
6 years ago

Take that down immediately!

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Shantu Ealy
6 years ago

it promotes hate and ignorance. take it down!

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Allison Marino
6 years ago

Please remove the Emancipation Memorial which belittles the power, beauty and freedom of Black Lives and instead displays the manipulative and cruel nature of white oppressors. Give Black Lives dignity, respect and their full freedoms from the tyrannical history of slavery.

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Bob Vance
6 years ago

I work with 54th Mass Volunteers Regiment Company A and since I was a child have been disgusted that this memorial was ever made and sitting in Boston

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Kristianna Post
6 years ago

I support immediate removal of this statue.

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Ruthe L'Esperance
6 years ago

I agree.

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Ann Walsh
6 years ago

We can honor Lincoln and remember Emancipation without images that dehumanize. Be better, Boston.

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Sharla Solomon
6 years ago

Statue has to go! I didn’t even know it was there.

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Jennifer Cotard
6 years ago

Remove the statue it’s offensive to my people!!!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

This has to go immediately, Boston. Whatever the artist's original intention was to depict is irrelevant. This has to go.