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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The one where Lincoln is petting a black man's head and the black man looks like a dog at his feet.[/quote]

The man doesn’t look like a dog and Lincoln isn’t touching his head.

The statue is symbolic of Lincoln saying go free to the slaves, and in 1876 how else would have it been depicted?
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So you think that because only subservient poses were allowed for black men in the 1870s, the image should be kept today? What about demeaning images of Jews from the late 1800s? Also cool?[/quote]

No.  Are you really that dense?  The man is in a subservient pose b/c he represents a slave.  I can’t speak for the designer, but the purpose was trying to illustrate Lincoln freeing the slaves and not be demeaning.  It was 1876–what else should it have looked like?[/quote]

It could have looked like a newly freed slave standing next to Lincoln not on his hands and knees? Do you really have no imagination?

Here's an 1866 painting of Lincoln as emancipator (http://abrahamlincolnassociation.org/the-first-slave-freed-by-abraham-lincoln-a-biographical-sketch-of-nance-legins-cox-cromwell-costley-circa-1813-1873/). Notice how she doesn't look at all like a dog? It's definitely possible.[/quote]

Flower, the picture to which you linked is from a postcard painted in the early 1900s—about the same time as the Lincoln emancipation sculptor died.
https://taaffshowcase.org/lincoln-and-the-contrabands/

Archer Alexander doesn’t look like a dog to me.[/quote]

Unless you think they discovered that black people could stand between 1876 and 1905, your point is still moronic. There are plenty of paintings of freed slaves where they're not on all fours. Defend the statue if you like it, but "what else was he supposed to do?" is an embarrassing defense.[/quote]

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