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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, delivered in that city in 1852.
© Rob Kim/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK, - APRIL 14: An empty courtyard flanks a memorial statue of Frederick Douglass during the coronavirus pandemic on April 14, 2020 in New York City. Shelter-In-Place and social distancing continues across the city, emptying streets and businesses to curb the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. Worldwide, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has claimed over 120,000 lives and infecting over 1.9 million people. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images) Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglas and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom.
The statue was found at the brink of the Genesee River gorge about 50 feet from its pedestal, police said. There was damage to the base and a finger.
In Rochester on July 5, 1852, Douglass gave the speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” in which he called the celebration of liberty a sham in a nation that enslaves and oppresses its Black citizens.
To a slave, Douglass said, Independence Day is “a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
Carvin Eison, a leader of the project that brought the Douglass statue to the park, told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle another statue will take its place because the damage is too significant.
"Is this some type of retaliation because of the national fever over confederate monuments right now? Very disappointing, it’s beyond disappointing,” Eison told WROC.
And just why do the Radical protestors destroy Frederick Douglass statue?????
are they so ignorant of history and what Douglass stood for and did in his life??
Or, is it the teacher's unions educations 9lack of) that causes such a horror.
Same for the Abraham Lincoln statue of raising up the slaves. Poor little hoodlums 'offended' by history. which they want to destroy and institute a Venezuela communism.
LibDems - keep it up - destroy, riot, loot, tear down, Burn, rape, assault, murder.
The 'Lawless" Culture of the LibDems will matter come election day Nov 2020!!!
Keep up the work - time to empower law enforcement to protect the rights of innocent citizens and taxpayers over lawless , stupid hoodlums with degrees in 'Communist Science' from Liberal Arts programs. Hoodlums need jail time - serious jail time.