Abraham Lincoln statues

[Rob Wick]

For someone who don't know and believe the Richmond account, the plain sight of a black man knelt before a white head of state seems offensive.

Frederick Douglass, who knew and believed the Richmond account, also found it offensive.

On April 19, 1876, Douglass wrote the editor of the National Republican newspaper "The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude. What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.”

So it just isn't a 21st century phenomenon.

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Rob