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[quote=Anonymous][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]

He could've been standing, for one thing.  Currently it looks like he's groveling at the feet of Lincoln.[/quote]

He doesn’t look like he’s groveling.  If he were standing, one could say it would look like Lincoln was purchasing a slave at an auction.

Douglass in his speech about the statue refers to Lincoln as a “liberator” and freeing slaves from “bondage.”  That’s what the statue is trying to convey.  That was the intent.  Context matters.

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Yet Douglas hated the statue.[/quote]

Where is his opinion quoted on the statue?

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