Melting Statue Of Abraham Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

(06-24-2024 06:15 PM)Anita Wrote:  "The artist [Sandy Williams IV] says the sculpture was meant as a reflection on Lincoln's abolitionist legacy. . . . The school stands on the site of Camp Barker, which was a contraband camp during the Civil War, where freed and escaped slaves would come to get education, medical care, and employment to rebuild their lives. According to Cultural DC’s website for the installation, Lincoln often visited the refugees at Camp Barker while he was president.

They’ve canceled plans for any more lightings, but Williams said the work has prompted the desired conversations about history, permanence and our shared historical narratives.

With all of the recent rulings of the six Republican-President-appointed Justices of the United States Supreme Court (and more such important rulings to come shortly), an enlightened citizen might be concerned with the current history being made. Five men and one woman on the bench of the United States Supreme Court (in the current U. S. population of 336,673,595) are re-interpreting our constitution, in accordance with their conservative beliefs, on a massive scale.