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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Erin Cadena
6 years ago

This statue is deeply disturbing to me. I can only imagine how traumatizing it is for Black people to see it. Please remove it immediately!

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Dayna Reed
6 years ago

remove these symbols of white supremacy

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Brenda Williams
6 years ago

I have friends in Boston. White friends. No one has ever mentioned this statue and I hadn't heard of it until now. It DEFINITELY has to go. Listen to Black Americans. They are not asking for anything outrageous. Create a special museum if you must, but take this down.

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Amy Bunker
6 years ago

TAKE IT DOWN!!

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Nina Hargrave
6 years ago

We are no longer kneeling. We stand tall. It is time for an upgrade. Put Obama dropping the mic

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Holly Longacre
6 years ago

Do what’s right. Take it down!

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chanelle sinclair
6 years ago

listen to our black community and take this DOWN. this is not art. it's trauma. take it down.

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Shannon Donaldson Donaldson
6 years ago

The statue is grotesque. Begone!

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Susan Barbour
6 years ago

Lincoln made white supremacist violents throughout his career, which history had tried to erase. This statue is unacceptable. Thank you, Tony.

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Melissa Wombolt
6 years ago

This has to go!

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Robert Mugabe
6 years ago

Greetings from Zimbabwe! First we came for their statutes, then for their farms, then for their heads!

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Theresa
6 years ago

No more!!!! This statue has no place now or ever!! My children do NOT need this piece of history.

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Idi Amin
6 years ago

In Uganda, we did more than just remove statues of dead white men!

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Barack Obama
6 years ago

While I was born in Africa and have next to NOTHING in common with the average African-American - its my COMMON desire with them to see this awful white man's statue removed!

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Michelle Obama
6 years ago

IF this WHITE MAN's statue is removed and replaced by one of the one and only true Messiah (Barack Obama), it will ONLY be the second time in my life that I was ever proud of my country!

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Jefferson Davis
6 years ago

ALL abolitionist statues also need to go b/c EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM was a Republican and almost ALL were white men!

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Jim Crow
6 years ago

As bad as what Lincoln did, the worst thing he did was NOT to then send these people back home to Africa! We are now paying the price for this mistake!

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Kai Young
6 years ago

I must have been living under a rock, because I didn't even know such an atrocious thing was standing in Boston today. It's amazing how much history can, and has been, skewed by those who write (and sculpt) it.

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Jessica
6 years ago

Take this thing down!!!

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Sarah
6 years ago

This statue does not represent equality. It may have been created with that in mind but that message is not seen & cannot be promoted in a society of freedom & equality.