disrespectful memory's of slavery of any kind should be remove from the face of the earth show we can move forward
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Rubin Hohlbein
6 years ago
This statue is disgusting. Get rid of it now plz.
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Jerome C Crichton
6 years ago
Here is another example of self-congratulatory White supremacy. The optics are miserable, as it champions exploitation at the expense of Black suffering. Please remove this offensive sculpture.
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Renelle Renee
6 years ago
Tear that shid down!!!
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Tylisa Mosby-Coles
6 years ago
tear it down, now.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
This is a statue of white saviorism, not of emancipation.
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Michael Howard Lewis
6 years ago
There should be no statues glorifying White savior complex in public spaces.
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Clifton Golz
6 years ago
We can do better than this.
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Robert E Lee
6 years ago
Down with the Union! Down with Lincoln!
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Tanika Smith
6 years ago
That's just not right an we still going through it
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Blair Campbell
6 years ago
No objection to Lincoln just the depiction of the black man
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David Vogel
6 years ago
Lincoln as lord and savior, so far above the freed slave is not right for a public space.
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Mark Smith
6 years ago
Says a bunch of "WOKE WHITE PEOPLE" WHO KNOW DIDDILY SQUAT ABOUT BLACK HISTORY OR BLACK STRUGGLE!! LOLOL!! You can't protest your way to being black. Rap music don't make you black and eating soul food don't make you black. SO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BEING BLACK, JUST IT'S A POPULAR HIP CULTURE FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO CLAIM!! GET OVER YOURSELF RACIST BOSTON!!
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Flo
6 years ago
This should not be celebrated. It should be a reminder of how we don't treat people.
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Mark Smith
6 years ago
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He is not on his KNEES, BUT ONE KNEE!! Rising up from slavery with no shackles to hold him down. That is the symbolism of this statue, but you are too well educated to understand that. I'm a 65 y.o. BLACK MAN! I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!! WHY DON'T YOU??!!
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Mark Smith
6 years ago
Try reading the history of this statue. PAID FOR BY FORMER SLAVES!! YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!
The funding drive for the monument began, according to much-publicized newspaper accounts from the era, with $5 given by former slave Charlotte Scott of Virginia, then residing with the family of her former master in Marietta, Ohio, for the purpose of creating a memorial honoring Lincoln.[6][7] The Western Sanitary Commission, a St. Louis-based volunteer war-relief agency, joined the effort and raised some $20,000 before announcing a new $50,000 goal.[8]
According to the National Park Service, the monument was paid for solely by former slaves:
The campaign for the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln, as it was to be known, was not the only effort of the time to build a monument to Lincoln; however, as the only one soliciting contributions exclusively from those who had most directly benefited from Lincoln's act of emancipation it had a special appeal ... The funds were collected solely from freed slaves (primarily from African American Union veterans) ...
The turbulent politics of the reconstruction era affected the fundraising campaign on many levels. The Colored People's Educational Monument Association headed by Henry Highland Garnet wanted the monument to serve a didactic purpose as a school where freedmen could elevate themselves through learning. Frederick Douglass disagreed and thought the goal of education was incommensurate with that of remembering Lincoln.[9]
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Kendra and Erik Nikodem
6 years ago
Tragic! Why have we not looked up until now? Because systemic racism has been normalized in our country and we were happy to ignore it. It’s s new day.
disrespectful memory's of slavery of any kind should be remove from the face of the earth show we can move forward
This statue is disgusting. Get rid of it now plz.
Here is another example of self-congratulatory White supremacy. The optics are miserable, as it champions exploitation at the expense of Black suffering. Please remove this offensive sculpture.
Tear that shid down!!!
tear it down, now.
This is a statue of white saviorism, not of emancipation.
There should be no statues glorifying White savior complex in public spaces.
We can do better than this.
Down with the Union! Down with Lincoln!
That's just not right an we still going through it
No objection to Lincoln just the depiction of the black man
Lincoln as lord and savior, so far above the freed slave is not right for a public space.
Says a bunch of "WOKE WHITE PEOPLE" WHO KNOW DIDDILY SQUAT ABOUT BLACK HISTORY OR BLACK STRUGGLE!! LOLOL!! You can't protest your way to being black. Rap music don't make you black and eating soul food don't make you black. SO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BEING BLACK, JUST IT'S A POPULAR HIP CULTURE FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO CLAIM!! GET OVER YOURSELF RACIST BOSTON!!
This should not be celebrated. It should be a reminder of how we don't treat people.
He is not on his KNEES, BUT ONE KNEE!! Rising up from slavery with no shackles to hold him down. That is the symbolism of this statue, but you are too well educated to understand that. I'm a 65 y.o. BLACK MAN! I KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!! WHY DON'T YOU??!!
Try reading the history of this statue. PAID FOR BY FORMER SLAVES!! YOU ARE AN IDIOT!! The funding drive for the monument began, according to much-publicized newspaper accounts from the era, with $5 given by former slave Charlotte Scott of Virginia, then residing with the family of her former master in Marietta, Ohio, for the purpose of creating a memorial honoring Lincoln.[6][7] The Western Sanitary Commission, a St. Louis-based volunteer war-relief agency, joined the effort and raised some $20,000 before announcing a new $50,000 goal.[8] According to the National Park Service, the monument was paid for solely by former slaves: The campaign for the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln, as it was to be known, was not the only effort of the time to build a monument to Lincoln; however, as the only one soliciting contributions exclusively from those who had most directly benefited from Lincoln's act of emancipation it had a special appeal ... The funds were collected solely from freed slaves (primarily from African American Union veterans) ... The turbulent politics of the reconstruction era affected the fundraising campaign on many levels. The Colored People's Educational Monument Association headed by Henry Highland Garnet wanted the monument to serve a didactic purpose as a school where freedmen could elevate themselves through learning. Frederick Douglass disagreed and thought the goal of education was incommensurate with that of remembering Lincoln.[9]
Tragic! Why have we not looked up until now? Because systemic racism has been normalized in our country and we were happy to ignore it. It’s s new day.
This statue is an embarrassment to Boston.
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Burn it!