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Some want D.C.'s Lincoln statue gone. Others point out: Freed Black Americans
paid for it.
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — As Confederate imagery and monuments have come under fire
in recent weeks, a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Park Square in Boston has drawn
particular ire from residents there. The statue depicts Lincoln standing over
and freeing an enslaved Black man.
A man named Tory Bullock started an online petition for the statue's removal,
which has garnered more than 10,000 signatures.
"I've been watching this man on his knees since I was a kid," Bullock writes in
the petition description. "It's supposed to represent freedom but instead
represents us still beneath someone else. I would always ask myself 'If he's
free why is he still on his knees?' No kid should have to ask themselves that
question anymore."
According to the ABC affiliate in Boston, a spokesperson for City Hall said the
mayor was in favor of removing the statue and is "willing to engage in a
dialogue with the community about its future in Boston."
Some Bostonians may not know, however, that the statue in their city is
actually a replica of one that stands in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park.
According to the National Park Service, which maintains the park, an African
American woman named Charlotte Scott of Virginia used the first $5 she earned
in freedom to kick off a fundraising campaign as a way of paying homage to
Lincoln after he was assassinated in 1865.
In fact, the funds to build the statue were collected exclusively from formerly
enslaved African Americans, NPS says, even though the organization controlling
the effort and keeping the funds was a white-run, war-relief agency based in
St. Louis, the Western Sanitary Commission.
The monument was designed by Thomas Ball, cast in Munich in 1875 and shipped to
Washington in 1876.
"The campaign for the Freedmen's Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln, as it
was to be known, was not the only effort of the time to build a monument to
Lincoln; however, as the only one soliciting contributions exclusively from
those who had most directly benefited from Lincoln's act of emancipation, it
had a special appeal," NPS says.
ABC7's Sam Ford spoke with two women who feel passionately about the monument
on Sunday at Lincoln Park.
"I'm here to speak on behalf of the legacy of Charlotte Scott," said Marcia
Cole, a member of the Female RE-Enactors of Distinction (FREED) who portrays
Scott. FREED is an auxiliary organization of the African American Civil War
Museum.
"I understand there's a big campaign trying to raise money to either take it
down or mend it, and I say 'no' on behalf of Ms. Charlotte," she said. "People
tend to think of that figure as being servile but on second look you will see
something different, perhaps. That man is not kneeling on two knees with his
head bowed. He is in the act of getting up. And his head is up, not bowed,
because he's looking forward to a future of freedom."
Marcia Cole, a member of the Female RE-Enactors of Distinction (FREED), says
she supports keeping the Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park. (ABC7)
She also mentions that the shackle on the portrayed freed man's wrist is
attached to a broken chain.
Carolivia Herron, who teaches at Howard University, told Sam that her great-
grandmother was 12 years old when slavery ended in Virginia.
"I know she gave $5 for this," she said, pointing at the memorial. "In my heart
I know it. I don't have any proof."
"Things change," she went on to say. "Our perceptions of how things should be
presented change. There's an intelligent, acceptable, proud way to interpret
this statue. We need not be ashamed of what we came from."
Carolivia Herron says she supports keeping the Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park.
(ABC7)
Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s non-voting Delegate to the United States House of
Representatives, announced on Wednesday, June 23, that she will introduce
legislation to remove the statue from Lincoln Park.
“Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue to be built in 1876
, the design and sculpting process was done without their input, and it shows,"
she wrote in a statement. "The statue fails to note in any way how enslaved
African Americans pushed for their own emancipation. Understandably, they were
only recently liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of
their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of this statue,
Frederick Douglass also expressed his displeasure with the statue."
4.附註、心得、想法︰
美國人黑命貴日前指出這尊林肯雕像象徵迫害黑奴
所以發動連署要拆除雕像
已有上萬人響應
但是該雕像為被解放的奴隸所出資興建的。
可憐吶
林肯你還是去殺吸血鬼好了
新聞中的在Howard University任教的老師說得很好
"Things change," she went on to say. "Our perceptions of how things should be
presented change. There's an intelligent, acceptable, proud way to interpret
this statue. We need not be ashamed of what we came from."