Looks like a symbol of slavery to me! IT GOT TO GO!!!
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Dev Luthra
6 years ago
The statue erases the experience of black soldiers in the war as well as the decades of enslaved peoples’ resistance. It also erases Lincoln’s ambivalent stance toward black freedom and equality. Paternalist to a fault.
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Vivian Pereira
6 years ago
Tear down that statue.
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Evelyn Brito
6 years ago
We need to move forward and value life versus status
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Leah
6 years ago
This statue should’ve been removed a long time ago!
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Rafael Quirós
6 years ago
The world needs to be liberated from racism and slavery. We need to make a change and move on to a better society of equality.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Agree. This statue has to go, or be reworked. This pose is an embarassment to America.
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Charles Weldon
6 years ago
Get rid of it.
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SHERYL CULLIVER
6 years ago
It’s a new day- time to try to live as equals
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Peter Glick
6 years ago
Thanks, Tory. Great video/lesson.
This old white dude thought it was odd when he first saw it, but did nothing. This thing has to go
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Veronique Rodriguez
6 years ago
Marty, this has got to go!!!
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Holly Rossi
6 years ago
Arlington, MA
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Claudia Clark
6 years ago
Get rid of this ridiculous and demeaning statue.
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Julie Jette
6 years ago
Somehow I've lived in the Boston area for more than 20 years and had no awareness of this statue. People, we can do A LOT better. Some of the most important Black Americans in history are from or lived in Massachusetts (WEB Dubois anyone??? Frederick Douglass?) Obviously MLK. And would "Honest Abe" even want to be in this weird, messed up image? I'm thinking no. Anyway, yes, please take this down - its' just awful. Let's find better images to honor emancipation. Let's recognize Lincoln but also Black people's role in their own emancipation! Love Tory's idea for a warehouse also.
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Sylvia Dickens-Lurowist
6 years ago
This statue perpetuates the myth of white supremacy. A freed, equal man should be standing.
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eric sarno
6 years ago
get it outta here
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Tara McCabe
6 years ago
Take statue of Lincoln down
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Christopher Jones
6 years ago
Time for this to go.
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Jason
6 years ago
Why do we have a black man kneeling in front of a white man? Aren’t we supposed to be equal?
Please remove this statue. Thanks
Looks like a symbol of slavery to me! IT GOT TO GO!!!
The statue erases the experience of black soldiers in the war as well as the decades of enslaved peoples’ resistance. It also erases Lincoln’s ambivalent stance toward black freedom and equality. Paternalist to a fault.
Tear down that statue.
We need to move forward and value life versus status
This statue should’ve been removed a long time ago!
The world needs to be liberated from racism and slavery. We need to make a change and move on to a better society of equality.
Agree. This statue has to go, or be reworked. This pose is an embarassment to America.
Get rid of it.
It’s a new day- time to try to live as equals
Thanks, Tory. Great video/lesson. This old white dude thought it was odd when he first saw it, but did nothing. This thing has to go
Marty, this has got to go!!!
Arlington, MA
Get rid of this ridiculous and demeaning statue.
Somehow I've lived in the Boston area for more than 20 years and had no awareness of this statue. People, we can do A LOT better. Some of the most important Black Americans in history are from or lived in Massachusetts (WEB Dubois anyone??? Frederick Douglass?) Obviously MLK. And would "Honest Abe" even want to be in this weird, messed up image? I'm thinking no. Anyway, yes, please take this down - its' just awful. Let's find better images to honor emancipation. Let's recognize Lincoln but also Black people's role in their own emancipation! Love Tory's idea for a warehouse also.
This statue perpetuates the myth of white supremacy. A freed, equal man should be standing.
get it outta here
Take statue of Lincoln down
Time for this to go.
Why do we have a black man kneeling in front of a white man? Aren’t we supposed to be equal? Please remove this statue. Thanks
PUT IT IN A MUSEUM! DO IT NOW!