Around the country communities large and small, local and state are now hearing the cries of protection/dismantle of Civil War monuments, statues, and plaques. Wait, scratch that, it’s evolved into anything someone may find offensive or racist.
But the funny thing is, just hours after Charlottesville, a simpleton vandalized the Lincoln Memorial in DC and there was very little disgust on social media!
Today in Arizona, another simpleton tarred & feathered a Confederate plague.
So who’s gambling to see which is the next to be attacked: Civil War gravestones or how about Appomattox Court House or maybe a Native American monument dedicated to those who fought in WWII. Why not, someone had been placing nooses at the National Museum of African American History & Culture back in May 2017. – PB/TK
Will Pittsburgh’s Stephen Foster statue be the next racist symbol to go? – By Colin Deppen / Aug 16 2017
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Mayor Bill Peduto’s office said the city’s planning department and art commission have been “in touch with the University of Pittsburgh and are reviewing questions that were raised about the statue to the university.”
Renee Piechocki, director with the Office of Public Art in Pittsburgh, told The Incline by phone today:
“This isn’t the first time the existence of the sculpture has been questioned… The current and really even past questions of the sculpture came up through students and Pitt-related folks. I don’t know exactly who they were, the diversity office at Pitt is looking into it, and there is a working group that includes me, representatives of the city’s planning department, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and various departments at Pitt, as well as the Carnegie museums.
What’s happening right now is that we’re studying what to do and how we should do it, and I think we’re pretty early in the process. The sculpture is owned by the City of Pittsburgh, and it was moved from its original location in Highland Park to its current location back in late ’40s or early ’50s.”
A call to Pitt’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion was not immediately returned
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