The Boston Mayor has declared he’s supporting a movement to remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln setting slaves free:
DC EXAMINER – The mayor of Boston supports calls to remove a statue in tribute to President Abraham Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator.”
Mayor Marty Walsh, who designated racism as a public health crisis in the city of Boston, is in favor of removing a statue of Lincoln that has stood for over 100 years in the city’s Park Square. Walsh’s office told the Boston Globe last week that it hopes to recommission that statue into one that “recognizes equality” and is investigating what processes the city would need to undergo to remove it.
The statue depicts Lincoln with one arm extended above a freed slave with broken shackles, symbolizing that, by Lincoln’s hand, the institution of slavery was broken. The inscription on the statue reads, “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.”
However, activist Tory Bullock launched a petition to remove the Emancipation Memorial, which has garnered over 8,000 signatures and brought local attention to the statue.
“If he’s free why is he still on his knees?” Bullock wrote in a description of the petition. “No kid should have to ask themselves that question anymore. If you feel the same then sign the petition!”
“It says it’s a statue that’s supposed to represent freedom. But, to me, it represents submissiveness,” Bullock told WCVB 5 News. “It represents, ‘Know your place, because that’s where you belong.'”
This is the idiot who is behind calls to remove the statue:
“It says it’s a statue that’s supposed to represent freedom. But, to me, it represents submissiveness,” Bullock told WCVB 5 News. “It represents, ‘Know your place, because that’s where you belong.’ Are you kidding me?
The statue depicts a slave on his knees with broken shackles, meaning he can now get up and be free. The whole point, I think, is that slavery had kept blacks on their knees in chains and shackles and they were now free, thanks to Abraham Lincoln and a bloody civil war.
But this moron looks at the statue and all he sees is a black man on his knees with a white man standing over him. He has no concept apparently of what really happened, the horrors of slavery and how this president fought a civil war, in part, to end slavery.
He takes ‘useful idiots’ to a whole new level.