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Remove The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue

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Marie Armstrong
6 years ago

I respect history but this statue has bothered me since I first moved to Boston 41 years ago. The intention wasn't to mark history but instead to exert power over Blacks by placing it at the center of Boston's Financial District!

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Elizabeth Tran
6 years ago

REMOVE THIS

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Andrea
6 years ago

Get that man off his knees

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Spencer Trumbore
6 years ago

This is an unflattering depiction of freedmen and the Great Emancipator himself. Recommission it.

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Evens Napoleon
6 years ago

We suffered enough, we don't need something that reminds us of our sufferings everytime we're passing by. Help us please put the past behind us.

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Bugs Bunny
6 years ago

This is a waste of time get a life & job losers

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jacquelyn clements
6 years ago

#blacklivesmatter

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Brenda Morrison
6 years ago

Its time for this to go.

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Sam Hannigan
6 years ago

This statue is misguided and harmful, It should be removed.

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Debbie W
6 years ago

This is wrong; this is not glorification. This should be moved to a museum at worst. That way people can see it if they want to. The continued destruction of monuments achieves nothing.

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Scott Janousek
6 years ago

Replace it with something better!

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Michelle Boydston
6 years ago

These egregious and deplorable statutes glorifying racist bigotry need to be removed immediately. They are an assault on irrepressible damage that has caused minority disparities for far to long. The people of this country are demanding that they no longer be allowed to glorify such horrific representations of the oppression that surrounds them and must be removed from wherever they stand immediately in order to demonstrate justice and equality of the Black community which are inclusive and should be treated as such. Way overdue!!

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Joan Vermette
6 years ago

This is not appropriate — perhaps a museum where it could be put into historical context would be better.

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Jennifer Scheible
6 years ago

Remove that offensive statue!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Let us move forward, not backwards. It's time.

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Jared B
6 years ago

It's gross and even presuming the intentions were pure, it misses the mark. This statue reinforces the narrative of white supremacy.

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William Kniep
6 years ago

Unspeakable.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

Please remove this statue as it continues to harm our community.

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William Gordon III
6 years ago

We live in a new age where art like this is not by any means a representation of America Today , where art like this is disrespectful to a whole Group of people in a city where they’re supposed to be “ inclusive” of everybody

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Kimberli Brownlee
6 years ago

Take it down. This statue represents continued oppression. We already have a monument to Abe in D.C.