Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Ignorance

"In Boston, it was emancipator Abraham Lincoln’s statue that has been repeatedly vandalized. In Philadelphia, it was abolitionist Matthias Baldwin. In San Francisco, it was President Ulysses Grant, who put down the Confederacy's rebellion. In Washington, D.C., George Washington’s statue was pulled down on the campus of George Washington University.

"In another part of Washington, yet another mostly white mob of professional protesters showed up in Lincoln Park with the intention of tearing down a memorial to emancipation that Frederick Douglass himself had dedicated in a magnificent speech, which was mostly financed by freed slaves. A black woman who spoke up to object — “Are you trying to divide us or bring us together? Because it seems like you are abusing this situation” — was jeered until she left."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/vandals-demonstrate-failure-of-american-education-system

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