Emancipation Memorial

[@Tejroe]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." - George Orwell, 1984 Just a message for all of those calling for the removal of this statue.

[@vincentsun886]

It’s not about destroy. I can’t see anything that Lincoln is doing to help black people in this statue. I don’t see him giving him a hand and say, “Stand up, you are a free man now.” What I see is he’s walking his puppy and say, “Here’s your new home.”

[@KikiF7]

Thousands of Americans have not read 1984 and it shows

[@themayor4831]

Only kneel to GOD

[@sherryhunt3995]

Deez Maine who’s kneeling he’s rising!

[@themayor4831]

Possibly, but the masses see otherwise

[@stephenkolostyak4087]

I like how invested people are in history, to the point that the first apparent comments on this video didn't get added to it unil nearly 8 years after it had been posted.

[@craigore2011]

At least it's still there so that people can. Far worse than not being invested in it is actively erasing it.

[@stephenkolostyak4087]

@@craigore2011 that is very true

[@claudiamcclennon9736]

Bronze sculpted Memorial ex-Slaves funded and paid for Statue in Lincoln Park came from Donation of “five-dollar in 1863 My Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grandparents Mr. William Henson also Mrs. Hattie Henson Donation Five dollar for the sculpture“Black ex-Slaves almost entirely funded from the ex-Slave Free Slaves fundraising the money of five-dollar for the Bronze Statue in Lincoln Park Sculpted was paid by ex-Slaves fundraising reportedly “First began with a “five-dollar” Donation from ex-Slave Mr. Charlotte Scott, Group of Black American Ex-Slave Honoring Abraham Lincoln for "Ending of Slavery" Statue 1863 Freedom Emancipation Memorial also Known as the Freedman’s Memorial or Lincoln Park in Washington D.C.

[@fukawininetynine5999]

Claudia McClennon well done. I’m glad you know your Henson family history. Sad they want this removed.

[@claudiamcclennon9736]

BORN IN CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND, MR. WILLIAM HENSON, WORKING FOR WASHINGTON CONTRACTORS FREE MASONRY built Capitol Labor, FOR 67 YEARS, his family of Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he was the 1st person to reach the Geographic North .

[@richiesquest3283]

Get these muppets locked up.

[@stardestroyer_e1993]

For? 🤔

[@richiesquest3283]

@@stardestroyer_e1993 👎

[@stardestroyer_e1993]

richies quest ?

[@metal2951]

The Washington Post reported. “This statue, which still stands in Lincoln Park, was erected with contributions from hundreds of former slaves who wanted to pay tribute to the man who had proclaimed their freedom in 1863.” The Post noted that a broken chain was specifically placed in the slave’s hand to make it clear that the slave was “an eager participant in his own liberation.” On April 14, 1876, Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling of the memorial in Washington, D.C. “The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart,” Douglass said. “It has crowned and made glorious the high places of all civilized nations with the grandest and most enduring works of art, designed to illustrate the characters and perpetuate the memories of great public men. It is the sentiment which from year to year adorns with fragrant and beautiful flowers the graves of our loyal, brave, and patriotic soldiers who fell in defence of the Union and liberty. It is the sentiment of gratitude and appreciation, which often, in presence of many who hear me, has filled yonder heights of Arlington with the eloquence of eulogy and the sublime enthusiasm of poetry and song; a sentiment which can never die while the Republic lives.”

[@fionanelson614]

Archer, kneeling, was the great great great grandfather of Muhammad Ali.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

He's broken his chains & is rising up.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

@@sergio9669 How will you depict a slave then? Dressed as nice as Lincoln? Standing beside him? Shaking his hand? That shows nothing that half of an entire race of people were once enslaved.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

@@sergio9669 Like I said. That reminds nobody that there was once slavery in the USA. Have you ever seen the holocaust memorial in Liberty Park? Probably not. It is near the statue of liberty. It shows a soilder carrying a holocaust survivor. He is thin week & sick with ragged clothes. Jewish people aren't complaining.

[@themayor4831]

Only kneel to GOD...I'm going to side with Harriet Tubman on this one..RUN

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Lincoln didn't break those chains. Arthur did. And he is going to rise up. This historic statue must be saved!

[@scawfan75]

Trump should buy this statute and put it at the White House.

[@kathysoccermom3751]

Art plain and simple You destroy art because of hate Hate=evil Get evil out of your heart ❤️ and appreciate art.

[@claudiamcclennon9736]

Black African-American been in United State of America since 1619 The Emancipation Memorial statue it's cost $50,000 dollar to be built in 1863, was funded by the wages of freed slaves 1000 ex-Slave, and Civil War 58th USCT Colored Troops donated raised $16,000 dollar in Natchez, In honoring of Statue 58th Colored Troops each enslave gave $5.00 dollar total cost of donated $16,000 dollar in 1863 to have the statue built constructed for $50,000, dollar for the land around equivalent of $2,034.87, in 1863-2020 Inflation rate 2020 to day is worth $2,034.87 U.S. dollar it's cost $50,000 to be built Lincoln square historically 1862,-1865, the statue $50,000 in 1863, Frederick Douglass gave one of his speech master of ceremony at the Emancipation Memorial but!! no money or funded from Frederick Douglass, to built of the statue 1863. new Washingtonian paid for African American slave modeled of Archer Alexander. ex-slave is depicted on the knee, with one fist clenched, shirtless and "broken" shackles at the President Lincoln feet, Bronze sculpted Memorial ex-Slaves funded and paid for Statue in Lincoln Park came from Donation of “five-dollar in 1863 First Statue of Abraham Lincoln, My Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grandparents Mr. William Henson also Mrs. Hattie Henson Donation Five dollar for the Sculpture“Black ex-Slaves almost entirely funded from the ex-Slave Free Slaves fundraising the money of five-dollar for the Bronze Statue in Lincoln Park Sculpted was paid by ex-Slaves fundraising reportedly “First began with a “five-dollar” Donation from ex-Slave Mr. Charlotte Scott, Group of Black American Ex-Slave Honoring Abraham Lincoln for "Ending of Slavery" Statue 1863 Freedom Emancipation Memorial in 1863 is equivalent in purchasing power of Freedom for ex-Slave funding by Free People to paid $50,000 in 1863-2020 about $2,034.87 in 2020 difference of $1,934.87 over 157 years. U.S. dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 24.75% per year during this period, causing the real value of dollar by ex-Slave also Known as the Freedman’s Memorial or Lincoln Park in Washington D.C. Washingtonian paid for the "Land around the Statue Emancipation Memorial was the first in 1863 before Lincoln Memorial was builders in 1914-1922 by Henry Bacon was the New York Architect who designed the Lincoln Memorial, Monument in Lincoln Park is the first of all Memorial in Washington D.C. Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, destructive before 1863, My Generation Ancestry Grand- Grand-Grand-Grand Grandparent MR. WILLIAM HENSON & HATTIE HENSON WAS MARRIAGE IN 1889, AT 1400 C STREET N.E. LANE CHURCH WASHINGTON D.C. ON CAPITOL HILL AT PEOPLE’S CONGREGATION NEW NAME IS PEOPLE COMMUNITY CHURCH ON 11th ELEVENTH AND G STREET N.E. BORN AT CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND MR. WILLIAM HENSON, WORKING FOR WASHINGTON CONTRACTORS FREE MASONRY built Capitol Labor, FOR 67 YEARS, ALSO MRS. HATTIE HENSON, WORKING FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION L LABOR FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS.

[@thadstone7877]

He is not healing he is getting off his knees !

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

HE BROKE HIS CHAINS. HIS HEAD IS UP! HE IS RISING UP!

[@mikegonzales1832]

So people think this is racist ..u need to check you're history and understand if it wasnt for lincoln we would all be slaves steel yes we..not only blks were slaves ..he stands for freedom in amarecia no matter how u want to see the statue..the slave looks beat and to tired to stand even knowing hes free..thats how bad it was...lincolns a slave saint...sorry ur wrong

[@SseriousGgamer3]

Abraham Lincoln is the GOAT! But I keep telling people this statue design is TERRIBLE ! It should be Abraham shaking hands with a slave while they both stand up straight. I say they take it down and give it a DESIGN CHANGE. If people don’t like it, don’t force it down their throat, just accept it and understand

[@shirleypena4133]

@Luis Leal The statue does not need a design change. Instead, what is needed is for today's younger generations to pay closer attention to the statue's DETAILS, and to learn the actual history of its design: its subtle yet powerful meaning in every aspect of its design and how it was funded 100% by freed slaves. Those slaves fully understood what it was depicting, which is what today's generations don't because they have not been taught. To depict the freed slave standing straight up, shaking hands with Lincoln, would quite literally make a mockery of what the powerful message here is conveyed: the now freed slave is depicted breaking his own chains (LOOK at his hands, he is holding one of his former shackles), his head is UP, his eyes look OUTWARD (toward a future of freedom) and UPWARD (in gratitude to God) and his body is depicted in mid-rise (LOOK at his knees and back) because he is RISING UP. To change its design to the two men just standing there, shaking each other's hands, would indeed be a TERRIBLE design! To change the design to what you suggest would fail to convey the message intended, plus (quite frankly) shows ZERO artistic imagination. The people who paid for that statue were FREED SLAVES, unlike yourself and all the ignorant fools who want that statue removed. Unlike yourself and all these shit for brains BLM protesters, the people who paid for that statue had personally lived through the experience of slavery, and therefore understood exactly what the statue's powerful message was. Furthermore, none other than FREDERICK DOUGLASS proudly have the speech at the statue's official unveiling. Go look up what Douglass himself has to say about the "terrible design" of that statue. Furthermore, the great, great, great grandson of the freed slave depicted in that statue DOES NOT WANT IT REMOVED NOR REMODELED. The fact is the ONLY people who don't "like" it are people who are intent on tearing down virtually EVERY statue depicting actual historical figures from American's history OR people like yourself who fail to understand what the statue is depicting. The problem with far too many people in the younger generation is they want America's history to be re-written and re-fashioned to fit their limited understanding of it, made easier for them to intellectually grasp. Instead, they need to see history from the clear, honest perspective of those who lived it. This is why every time an old person dies it's a damn tragedy: like witnessing a library of priceless books burning to the ground, lost forever.

[@Kt-cn2rq]

Kid this how it started kinda like a job you start from the bottom and make your way up. It's just how life was back then. That I why called history to teach kids like you that things take time but it will happen if you take the steps to do so.

[@johnstriker480]

Talk about ill-educated.... xD

[@claudiamcclennon9736]

Statue of last Slave man kneeling at the foot of President Abraham Lincoln, standing before Fugitive Slave Law Act, ex slave to be resold Human being recapture striking at shackles kneeling exercise freed black man Archer Alexander 1813 1880 was last of his race to be recaptured written in the emancipated ledger book of Freedom enslave Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 Honoring with a Statue in Lincoln Park in Washington D.C. Emancipation Proclamation Document issued by President Abraham Lincoln January 1, 1863 Document all person’s held as Slaves currently residing in the North America in actively "rebelling States" are and henceforward shall Be!! Free!! "rebelling States" kneeling human being in Shackled" While the wording of the Document Emancipation Proclamation seems quite straight forward in more limited than the average American today is aware of the issuance of this “Proclamation only applied to the State that had seceded from the Union and were not already Under Northern Control the actual enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation was also wholly dependent on subsequent Union EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: First Kidnapped African enslaved traders of Black American Citizen been in United State of American since 1619, 401 years ago, Emancipation Proclamation Day, Celebration, Commemorating, the Ending, of Slavery!! in the U.S" two year's before JuneTeenth". June 19th 1865. Lincoln Statue was not racist Statue. Emancipation Memorial/ Freedman Statue Donation $5.00 from ex-Slave Mr. Charlotte Scott, Group of Black American Ex-Slave Honoring Abraham Lincoln for all "Ending of Slavery" Statue 1863 Freedom Emancipation Memorial also Known as the Freedman’s Memorial or Lincoln Park in Washington D.C.

[@thetruth1306]

I’m not surprised Boston has a replica of This...There’s a reason Boston is known as the most racist city in America

[@shirleypena4133]

@Big Tommy First of all, if you seriously think that Boston is known as "the most racist city in America" then buddy you have just announced that you have seen precious FEW American cities, lol! Second, as Dr. Rick Sanchez wisely recommends, do some research about the statue-it's history and the meaning in every aspect of its design-before you come on here spouting any more-as Dr. Sanchez eloquently puts it-Lefty Marxist lemon juice.

[@brandiwhitley5798]

If you seriously think this statue is racist then you need help and a real education. If not for the bravery of people like Lincoln, Grant, Douglas and Tubman the south would have won the war and slavery would still be in effect. You and the rest of the left need to wake up and stop this 'history is evil' crap. These are reminders of what the country has gone through to get where we are and warnings to teach future generations to avoid the same mistakes. It's long past time for you to stop playing the 'victim' card and instead work to push this country forward and stop pulling it back.

[@iketurner4582]

Take this BS down!!

[@oscarramos606]

Why?

[@youarecapping7983]

Oscar Ramos wym why?

[@stephenkolostyak4087]

How's Tina?

[@JohnMartin-ni2pj]

If it comes down so does the Martin Luther King statues

[@shirleypena4133]

@Ike Turner How ironic that you use the moniker of Ike Turner, who I know for a fact understood what that statue is actually conveying (unlike yourself) and therefore would not agree with your demand to tear it down. The former slaves who paid for that statue's creation, the former slave (Frederick Douglass) who gave the dedication speech at the statue's official unveiling, DIDN'T agree with your assertion that it's "bullshit" and needs to be taken down. Take a minute, go online and look up what Frederick Douglass said about that "bullshit" statue. Better yet, look up (it's here on KZbin) what the great, great, great grandson of the freed slave depicted in the statue thinks about that "bullshit" statue. You will find that both mightily disagree with you. Read by reply here on this comment thread to Luis Leal. I think that you and Luis are not actually understanding what that statue is depicting.