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    Default Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down On Anniversary Of Famous Speech

    A statue of Frederick Douglass, installed in 2018 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolitionist's birth, was ripped from its pedestal in Rochester, N.Y., on Sunday — the 168th anniversary of one of Douglass' most famous speeches.

    "Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?" Douglass asked in his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July" address on July 5, 1852, in Rochester.
    https://www.npr.org/sections/live-up...-famous-speech


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    The Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial was one of 16 public art works damaged when thousands of protesters swarmed Boston Common on Sunday night. ( 1 month ago)

    The conservator's recent prep work protected the front of the bronze relief with plywood, but its granite backside was vandalized with four-letter words and phrases including “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “Police are Pigs.”
    Workers remove graffiti from the backside of the Shaw Memorial. (Courtesy Friends of the Public Garden)

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    The Progressive's silence is deafening.

    Where the White libs at?
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    I guess this changes your vacation plans ...
    ONE-N-DONE, YOU GOT PLAYED; Time To Play-On
    Remember ... ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES ... So STFU Bitch

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    The Progressive's silence is deafening.

    Where the White libs at?
    dumb as a box of rocks, like the vandals

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    How many Confederate Flags = One FD Statue?
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    Do those idiots understand Douglas was an abolitionist a person who was opposed to slavery. Or is the whole idea a plan to strip this country of it's past good and bad?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    How many Confederate Flags = One FD Statue?
    IDK, ... how many?
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    WOKE!
    Kudos to New York for having a statue of this nation's most prominent abolitionist.

    Why does the south have far more public statutes of Confederate rebels who waged war on the American army and fought to protect slavery, than they do of statues of people who fought to end slavery?

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    About time they put up a statue of Paul Robeson outside the White House.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheep Hurter View Post
    About time they put up a statue of Paul Robeson outside the White House.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Kudos to New York for having a statue of this nation's most prominent abolitionist.

    Why does the south have far more public statutes of Confederate rebels who waged war on the American army and fought to protect slavery, than they do of statues of people who fought to end slavery?
    Why do American vets shake hands with Japanese and Vietnamese vets that tried to kill them?

    Why are Democrats attacking statues of Frederick Douglas?
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    I condemn this vandalism in no uncertain terms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Why do American vets shake hands with Japanese and Vietnamese vets that tried to kill them?

    Why are Democrats attacking statues of Frederick Douglas?
    This is such a terrible comparison it would be insulting to call it an analogy.

    America does not erect statues of Hideki Tojo or other Imperialst Japanese military leaders of WW2.

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