The iconoclasm and damnatio memoriae of our time continues! It is medieval ages or totalitarianism of the 20th century all over again! And this is happening repeatedly in America in the 21st century! Very appalling!
This ridiculous iconoclasm in the U.S. needs to stop!
The mayor of Boston Marty Walsh, what a wimp! Hope, he never runs for president!
Unfortunately, the Boston Herald article does not say what will happen to the statue after removal.
"A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston.
Freed Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy in Boston. The inscription on both reads: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.” ..."
Workers removed the Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Emancipation Group and the Freedman’s Memorial, early Tuesday from a park just off Boston Common where it had stood since 1879.
City officials had agreed in late June to take down the memorial after complaints and a bitter debate over the design. Mayor Marty Walsh acknowledged at the time that the statue made residents and visitors alike “uncomfortable.” ...Freed Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy in Boston. The inscription on both reads: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.” ..."
