{"id":336109,"date":"2023-02-04T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=336109"},"modified":"2023-02-04T12:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:13:04","slug":"democrats-propose-abraham-lincoln-statue-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/02\/democrats-propose-abraham-lincoln-statue-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Propose Abraham Lincoln Statue Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Epoch Times<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Democrat and Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have been unable to expel President Abraham Lincoln from the capitol, but Democrat delegate Eleanor Norton (D-D.C.) might.<\/p>\n

Norton, Washington D.C.\u2019s non-voting Congressional representative, reintroduced legislation to remove a statue of Lincoln with a kneeling freed slave.<\/p>\n

The statue has stood in Lincoln Park near the Capitol since 1876. It depicts a slave, shirtless and shackles broken, about to stand up. Lincoln stretches out his hand over the man.<\/p>\n

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Freed slaves paid for its creation. But according to Norton\u2019s press release, that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n

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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 21, 2020. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe paternalistic statue depicting a Black man on his knees in front of President Lincoln fails to recognize African Americans\u2019 agency in pressing for their own emancipation,\u201d the delegate\u2019s press\u00a0release<\/a>\u00a0reads.<\/p>\n

Norton\u2019s bill would have the statue removed from Lincoln Park and placed in a museum \u201cwith an explanation of its origin and meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also noted that the freed slaves who paid for the statue didn\u2019t get input in its design.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows,\u201d Norton said. \u201cAt the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norton noted that renowned abolitionist and freed slave Frederick Douglass spoke to dedicate the stature but \u201cpointedly did not praise the statue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past and Present<\/h2>\n

Douglass\u2019s\u00a0speech<\/a> expresses a complex set of feelings. He refers to Lincoln as the \u201cwhite man\u2019s President\u201d but also praises him as a \u201cgreat man\u201d and \u201cliberator\u201d who \u201chated slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done a good work for our race today,\u201d Douglass said at the statue\u2019s unveiling. \u201cIn doing honor to the memory of our friend and liberator, we have been doing highest honors to ourselves and those who come after us; we have been fastening ourselves to a name and fame imperishable and immortal; we have also been defending ourselves from a blighting scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scandal, he continued, was that African Americans would be accused of ingratitude toward the man who freed them.<\/p>\n

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from The Epoch Times: Democrat and Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have been unable to expel President Abraham Lincoln from the capitol, but Democrat delegate Eleanor Norton (D-D.C.) might. Norton, Washington D.C.\u2019s non-voting Congressional representative, reintroduced legislation to remove a statue of Lincoln with a kneeling freed slave. The statue has stood in Lincoln Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[147840],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}