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The Emancipation Statue a.k.a. Freed Man’s Memorial
“For most of this country’s history, we in the African American community have been at the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race sometimes still plays—on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.” Barack Obama, Former U.S. President They stand in defiance of America’s promise. But, for how long? A perennial debate to remove them is undergoing a new surge of momentum. Symbolic structures that stand to honor memories of the way it was are currently standing figuratively on sinking sand, some vandalized by impatient consumers of history having had their fill of arguments endeavoring to ignore what these statues represent to Americans long awaiting the fulfillment of intentions enshrined in the U. S. Constitution.“For most of this country’s history, we in the African American community have been at the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race sometimes still plays—on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.”
Barack Obama, Former U.S. President
They stand in defiance of America’s promise. But, for how long? A perennial debate to remove them is undergoing a new surge of momentum. Symbolic structures that stand to honor memories of the way it was are currently standing figuratively on sinking sand, some vandalized by impatient consumers of history having had their fill of arguments endeavoring to ignore what these statues represent to Americans long awaiting the fulfillment of intentions enshrined in the U. S. Constitution.
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