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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on June 27, 2020, 11:22:47 pm
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“I have made it my mission to protect that statueâ€: Woman defends Emancipation monument to protesters
Allahpundit Posted at 2:31 pm on June 27, 2020
The statue was supposed to come down last night. It did not, but reading through this thorough Examiner write-up of the gathering and what preceded it, you get the sense that it’s a matter of time before a serious attempt is made.
The organizer of the tear-it-down group is Harvard student (of course) Glenn Foster, who leads a group called Freedom Neighborhood. According to the Examiner, the group’s advance planning for bringing down the monument went as far to involve “human shields†while the act was done. (“[W]e need white people to be willing to put their bodies between the police and black bodies, if necessary.â€) When they arrived last night, though, their main obstacle wasn’t police or white people but black people. Remember this woman, Marcia Cole? The clip of her offering her interpretation of the statue’s meaning went viral a few days ago:
more w/video
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/06/27/made-mission-protect-statue-woman-defends-emancipation-monument-protesters/
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Good on her.