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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Grahm Daly
6 years ago

Let's keep this momentum going.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

take it down!!!!!

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Solea Guedes
6 years ago

It's time that we, the people, recognize that Lincoln was a remarkable leader, but not at the expense of a miserable slave. He simply did what was right to do so.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

The statue still highlights and unhealthy systemic posturing that places a white man has the hero and the black man a fortunate recipient of his generosity. Freedom should not be seen as a gift.

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Shy P
6 years ago

Galatians 6:2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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Andre Thomas
6 years ago

It has no place here.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

it's not about intent, it's about impact

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Anonymous
6 years ago

The effect is degrading rather than uplifting.

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Veronica Zolina
6 years ago

With respect to the freedmen who commissioned it, this statue’s time as a public monument has come and gone.

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Kweku Halm
6 years ago

I remember this statue very well during my years in Boston. I worked on Stuart street and whenever I went for lunch around the Park Plaza area will look at that statue with disdain. It looked to me like the slave was being petted like a dog.

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Kathryn chandler
6 years ago

It’s time. It’s well past time.

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Tim Cameron
6 years ago

End slavery for real

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Jonathan Larkin
6 years ago

Just imagine if it were a black man standing over a white man on his knees.

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Tasia James
6 years ago

Don’t make no damn sense!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Racism needs to be abolished by your religion

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Lynda Clapp
6 years ago

Even Fredrick Douglas thought it was inappropriate! It's time for this statue to go.

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Gabrielle Reeve
6 years ago

Melt it down and commission a black, female identified artist to create something more meaningful from the material!

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Chet Brown
6 years ago

Removal the Statue as the sign empowers the people and continues to perpetuate the struggles of the oppressed people

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Dr Common Sense
6 years ago

Im the doctor of common sense, since it apparently has been lost in the unmeasurably-not-falling sea levels of 2020. Take this s*it down

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Lynne Deschenes
6 years ago

Horrible image, it must be removed.