A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abr…
A Boston statue depicting a formerly enslaved man kneeling beneath President Abraham Lincoln was removed Tuesday, according to the mayor’s office. The “Emancipation Group” statue has stood in Park Square since 1879. “The decision for removal acknowledges the statue’s role in perpetuating harmful prejudices and obscuring the role of Black Americans in shaping the nation’s fight for freedom,” said a spokeswoman for Mayor Marty Walsh. Walsh’s office said the statue was moved to a storage facility until a new location is selected.
(📸: Steven Senne/AP)
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Definitely the right move.
I mean thank God. Why was that there still again?
Why was it still up until 2020 is the real question
didn’t he free them tho, so is he like praising him or sum
The fact that it took this long to remove is sickening!
Well yeah that statue is kinda racist
I just read 1984. it’s classified as fiction, which in 2020, is wrong.
Good! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
No people is not history. Is abuse and is horribly embarrassing
That was actually a statue?!!! That’s horrible!!!!
who thought this was a good idea for a statue in the first place?????
Not really kneeling, he’s rising up
Put it in a museum
bruh im from here and didnt know bout this💀 shoulda BEEN gone
Isn’t this Lincoln raising the black man up and out of slavery?
Isn’t the formerly enslaved man raising to stand up?
You can change the interpretation of history but you can’t change the facts !
What took so damn long 🤦🏻♀️
The better question is….WHO IN THE HELL THOUGHT THE STATUE WAS NECESSARY IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE……talk about MENTAL ABUSE.
Can someone explain to me how a statue of the man who freed the slaves, paid for by said former slaves, is racist?
Wasn’t this the statue that was endorsed and payed for by former slaves?
Freed slaves paid for the statue…
Isn’t this the one that was funded by former slaves?
Didnt he free them and they paid for that statue?