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Offline TomSea

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I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
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I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
Why aren’t there more statues memorializing slaves?
Updated by Samuel Sinyangwe Aug 17, 2017, 9:12am EDT

This July, I traveled to Barbados to unwind and get away. I didn’t know I’d encounter a monument that would help me understand how America processes our history.

Heading into town from the airport, we circled a statue situated in one of the most prominent intersections in town. It depicts a black man, Bussa, breaking the chains that bound his hands in slavery. In 1816, Bussa, an enslaved African, organized enslaved black people across every major plantation to stage a nationwide revolt in what is now known as Bussa’s Rebellion. His actions were instrumental in bringing about the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies.

As someone who grew up in Florida, I had never seen anything like it. For me, a racial justice activist, it communicated viscerally what no study or analysis ever could. It helped me imagine a landscape of liberation.

Continued: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/8/16/16156540/confederate-statues-charlottesville-virginia
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2017, 10:58:25 am »
Harriet Tubman statue.

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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2017, 11:03:24 am »
What's stopping him from making one?
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2017, 11:26:12 am »
Quote from: driftdiver on August 18, 2017, 11:03:24 am
What's stopping him from making one?

It is too late now, isn't it?
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Offline Cripplecreek

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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2017, 11:34:42 am »
Just dedicated at Hillsdale college in May of this year.

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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2017, 11:37:59 am »
One of several in Detroit.

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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2017, 11:41:35 am »
And here's one of a liberator. General Alpheus Starkey Williams.


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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2017, 11:41:51 am »
So he's a liar. Not surprising.
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2017, 11:50:55 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on August 18, 2017, 11:41:51 am
So he's a liar. Not surprising.

Or, inexcusably ignorant.
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2017, 11:56:28 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on August 18, 2017, 11:50:55 am
Or, inexcusably ignorant.

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I think we should go with inexcusably ignorant liar. @mountaineer
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2017, 12:51:29 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on August 18, 2017, 11:56:28 am
I think we should go with inexcusably ignorant liar. @mountaineer
I agree with you and your cat, Fred!
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2017, 04:13:01 pm »
In the North East every city has an MLK boulevard (famously quipped by Chris Rock as the worst street in every city).
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2017, 04:18:00 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on August 18, 2017, 09:58:34 am


It would be nice....if when he goes abroad..... he would stay abroad.  JS....
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2017, 04:25:12 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on August 18, 2017, 11:50:55 am
Or, inexcusably ignorant.

I'll go with liar.
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Re: I'm a black Southerner. I had to go abroad to see a statue celebrating black liberation.
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2017, 04:26:07 pm »
Quote from: XenaLee on August 18, 2017, 04:18:00 pm
It would be nice....if when he goes abroad..... he would stay abroad.  JS....

And he will learn that the US is the LEAST racist country on the planet.....and it isn't even close.
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