by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
For the second time since early October, vandals in Chicago have defaced a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Last month, it was the statue of President Lincoln in the park that bears his name. This time, it was a statue of young Lincoln in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood. In both cases the vandals used paint, with graffiti calling the 16th president a “colonizer.”
Details aside, the attack on Lincoln’s effigy is hardly a surprise. Once anti-American leftists succeeded in attacking and pulling down Confederate statues and battle flags, other symbols of the nation’s past had to follow as night follows day.
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For the war against Southern symbols was never a war solely against the South or the Confederacy. It was always a war against the nation’s past and its founding white Christian settlers and their descendants. Thus, the attack on Lincoln was not only predictable but also logical.
A statue of young Abraham Lincoln was splashed with red paint on Thanksgiving Day with the words “COLONIZER” and “LAND BACK!” written below it in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood.https://t.co/7qWfMlKlMA
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) November 26, 2022
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This time, the vandals attacked on Thanksgiving Day, the Chicago Tribune reported, writing the words “colonizer” and “land back” on the statue of young Abe.
“The vandals also reportedly wrote ‘Dakota 38’ in apparent reference to 38 Dakota Sioux who were executed on Lincoln’s order following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising,” the newspaper continued:
This was the second time a Lincoln statue had been vandalized in Chicago recently. A statue of the former president was also defaced with a similar message in Lincoln Park in October.
The writings on the ground were removed, and the statue was expected to be cleaned up Monday, Chicago Park District spokeswoman Michele Lemons wrote in an email to the Tribune. The Park District filed a police report about the incident.…
The latest controversy references the Sioux Uprising of 1862, when, after the Sioux were forced off their land and suffered starvation, they attacked and killed hundreds of settlers…. A military commission sentenced 303 Dakota fighters to death. Lincoln authorized the hanging of 38 of the men in Minnesota in the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
Thanksgiving was appropriate; Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day in 1864.
In October, vandals gave the Rail Splitter the same treatment.
“Red paint was poured over the statue and ‘Dethrone the Colonizers,’ ‘Land Back!’ and ‘Avenge the Dakota 38’ were spray-painted at its base,” the city’s Sun-Times reported.
An “anonymous group” claimed credit, and “said they wanted to memorialize Indigenous Peoples Day by calling attention to the public execution of 38 Dakota men during the U.S.-Dakota war of 1862,” the newspaper reported. “Lincoln signed the order of execution. The anonymous group refers to itself as ‘resistors of colonial violence.’”
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