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This guy is a descendant of the liberated slaves who paid for the emancipation monument-indeed he says his great-great grandfather is the man sculpted with Lincoln. This really would be a teaching moment, if he was not being shouted down.
This is a tour guide who is angry that the protestors don’t know the history of the monument
Marcia Cole defending the Emancipation Monument
And this is Marcia Cole in TV earlier in the week
This is Frederick Douglass’s speech, given at the raising of the freedmen’s monument in 1876 https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/oration-in-memory-of-abraham-lincoln/
https://twitter.com/jamesheartfield/status/1276546246690430976?s=21 https://twitter.com/jamesheartfield/status/1276546246690430976
Cedric Turner, ‘see my Facebook page’ he says as he sets out some of Washington’s black history
And this is my article on the monuments debate in Britain https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/17/a-healthy-society-does-not-destroy-its-monuments/
Join me in supporting this important cause at iPetitions. Keep the The Emancipation Memorial/Freedman Statue http://ipt.io/RIETU via @ipetitions
This is Cedric Turner’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cedric.turner.50
