Boston mayor in favor of removing city's Abraham Lincoln statue
by Anthony Leonardi, Breaking News Reporter
| June 15, 2020 05:08 PM
The mayor of Boston supports calls to remove a statue in tribute to President Abraham Lincoln as the "Great Emancipator."
Mayor Marty Walsh, who designated racism as a public health crisis in the city of Boston, is in favor of removing a statue of Lincoln that has stood for over 100 years in the city’s Park Square. Walsh's office told the Boston Globe last week that it hopes to recommission that statue into one that "recognizes equality" and is investigating what processes the city would need to undergo to remove it.
The statue depicts Lincoln with one arm extended above a freed slave with broken shackles, symbolizing that, by Lincoln's hand, the institution of slavery was broken. The inscription on the statue reads, "A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.â€
However, activist Tory Bullock launched a petition to remove the Emancipation Memorial, which has garnered over 8,000 signatures and brought local attention to the statue.
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