Tearing Down Statues

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Protesters in San Francisco on Friday toppled the statue of former President Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War, in Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco police said that approximately 400 people gathered around 8 p.m. to take down the statue, though no arrests were made, according to NBC Bay Area.

Also torn down in the park on Friday were the statues of St. Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...ues-of-union-general-ulysses-s-grant-national
 
CPUSA

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Hmmm...I always considered MR to be owned by someone
But then again...Feral doesn't necessarily mean wild, does it?
 
Kyle

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Ken King

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If not mistaken the park where these were tore down is the Golden Gate National Recreation Area {federal park}. As such they need to identify the entire group, arrest them all and give them the full 10 years allowed for under law.
 
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New York City Museum Taking Down Statue Of President Theodore Roosevelt


The bronze statue features Roosevelt on horseback and flanked on both sides by an African man and a Native American man.

“The statue was meant to celebrate Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as a devoted naturalist and author of works on natural history. Roosevelt’s father was one of the Museum’s founders, and the Museum is proud of its historic association with the Roosevelt family,” the museum said in a statement. “At the same time, the statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy that the Museum and members of the public have long found disturbing.”

The statue’s removal comes after left-wing activists have destroyed statues across the country in recent days, including statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key, and Junipero Serra.

The museum said that it was going to rename its Hall of Biodiversity after Roosevelt to honor his legacy as a conservationist.
 
Hijinx

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I had never heard of Junipero Sera, but iat his statue was torn down.
The Atheists have been trying to tear down anything with a cross for years only they were trying to get the Government to tear them down for them.

Of course the is a bit of difference, but there is also a similarity.
Tearing down statues and crosses is part and parcel of tearing down America.
Ripping away the things that came before us and the things that hold us together.

They cry about divisiveness yet they feed on it.
 
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RoseRed

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If they were going to tear down Junipero Serra, they should have taken this one down. It has been ugly since the day it was installed.
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It's no accident that Roosevelt is depicted on horseback with an indigenous man and a Black man standing behind him. Today, the statue is a blunt reminder that the founding of this country 400 years ago is the intertwined story of African slavery and the dispossession and genocide of Native America. In 1940, its arrangement was a direct expression of a popular but vigorously contested ideology of racial hierarchy based in false environmental reasoning -- an ideology of white supremacy and a politics of eugenics actively embraced by the museum under the long presidency of Henry Fairfield Osborn in the first half of the century.


https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/opinions/removing-teddy-roosevelt-statue-beginning-raffles/index.html


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WT Actual F is wrong with these people
 
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