{"id":8196,"date":"2020-06-15T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/boston-considers-removing-abraham-lincoln-statue-with-freed-slave\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:45:00","slug":"boston-considers-removing-abraham-lincoln-statue-with-freed-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/boston-considers-removing-abraham-lincoln-statue-with-freed-slave\/","title":{"rendered":"#Boston considers removing Abraham Lincoln statue with freed slave"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Boston considers removing Abraham Lincoln statue with freed slave<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 15, 2020 |<\/span> 9:45am <\/p>\n

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\n Boston\u2019s mayor says he\u2019s considering taking down a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln standing before a freed black man after a petition was launched for its removal.<\/p>\n

Mayor Marty Walsh\u2019s office said he\u2019s \u201cwilling to engage in a dialogue with the community about its future in Boston\u201d and looking into the process required to make the change, news<\/a> station WCVB reported.<\/p>\n

The statue, which is situated in the city\u2019s Park Square, is a replica of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington and shows Lincoln with one hand raised above a kneeling man with broken shackles on his wrists.<\/p>\n

The monument was intended to show Lincoln freeing the man from slavery, but a new petition argues that it \u201cinstead represents us still beneath someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt says that it\u2019s a statue that\u2019s supposed to represent freedom. But, to me, it represents submissiveness,\u201d said Tory Bullock, who started the online petition, which has at least 7,800 signatures as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt represents \u2018Know your place, because that\u2019s where you belong.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Bullock said that he\u2019d like to see the statue replaced with a new one that symbolizes equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great opportunity to get some local black artists involved in the creation of (a new) statue, to come up with something new that represents equality,\u201d Bullock told WCVB.<\/p>\n

The calls to dismantle the statue comes after a Christopher Columbus statue was beheaded last week in the North End neighborhood amid protests over the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

Other controversial monuments have also been destroyed in recent days.<\/p>\n

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