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Reply to "Eleanor Holmes Norton announces she wants Lincoln "Emancipation" statue removed from Lincoln Park"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The man isn’t kneeling like a dog. His chains are broken and his fist is clenched. He in the process of getting up because he is free. [/quote] That's no doubt what the sculptor intended, but it's not how it's seen by a lot of actual black people. They see a black man in chains in a subservient pose. There are many more ways to depict emancipation and honor Lincoln. Certainly Lincoln did not see himself in that god-like, paternalistic manner anyway. But what really pushes me to the side of taking it down is that black people **at the time** did not like the sculpture; and the newly emancipated people who funded the statute did not get a say in the design. [/quote] Freed slaves did get a say in the design. A freed slaved posed for the statue. The alternative design was rejected b/c it was too expensive. [/quote]
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