I check out Newsalert and find this out there on Twitter. An older Black man who appears to be dressed as a train conductor - DCBlackTours.com from that man's sign he was carrying - comes out to the Black Lives Matter protest at this statue of Abraham Lincoln in DC - the same one BLM wants to dismantle.
What do we see here? Obviously the young lady who's masked up is not there for a discussion. I won't even call it a debate, she's obviously made up her mind on this statue. She wants it gone and she doesn't care - or probably doesn't know or want to know let alone care - about the history of this memorial.
This statue the Emancipation Memorial is located in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC and was funded by the newly freed slaves in commemoration of President Abraham Lincoln who is popularly and historically noted as the "Great Emancipator".
What are these protestors upset about?
Unfortunately the young woman you see above is stuck on how this memorial perpetuates white supremacy. A former slave kneeling under the extended hand of President Lincoln. So shetells screams to the Black man she argues with "Why are you protecting it?" You see this is so right that it needs to come down I don't understand why you're not with me on this, it's so wrong and you're wrong.... "Why are you fighting me?"
The Black man knows what it is as he tries to tell the Frederick Douglass look-a-like activist that this woman can't handle opposing opinions. You have a dissenting opinion they automatically reject it. A classic social justice warrior or SJW - someone who finds something to complain about. They have utterly no joy in their lives.
“Why are you protecting it?!”— Sagnik Basu (@_sagnikbasu) June 27, 2020
BLM activist gets into a verbal exchange with an older black guy who was speaking up against tearing the statue down.#emancipationstatue pic.twitter.com/4crUOJhDFP
This statue the Emancipation Memorial is located in Lincoln Park in Washington, DC and was funded by the newly freed slaves in commemoration of President Abraham Lincoln who is popularly and historically noted as the "Great Emancipator".
What are these protestors upset about?
"This statue right here embodies the white supremacy and the disempowerment of black people that is forced upon us by white people. That is why we are tearing this statue down," said 20-year-old organizer Glenn Foster at an earlier protest this week.If these activists really cared about Black Lives Matter they'd leave this memorial alone and respect the wishes of our slave ancestors. It's what they wanted to memorialize their emancipation from slavery in the United States of America. Who are we to question a piece of art that they paid for well over a century ago?
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 campaign as a way of paying homage to Lincoln after he was assassinated in 1865.
Unfortunately the young woman you see above is stuck on how this memorial perpetuates white supremacy. A former slave kneeling under the extended hand of President Lincoln. So she
The Black man knows what it is as he tries to tell the Frederick Douglass look-a-like activist that this woman can't handle opposing opinions. You have a dissenting opinion they automatically reject it. A classic social justice warrior or SJW - someone who finds something to complain about. They have utterly no joy in their lives.
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