Many political commentators promised that it would stop with only Confederate monuments.
They were wrong. Now, Abraham Lincoln has become the target of woke rage.
In Chicago, vandals have spray painted an iconic Abraham Lincoln statue, calling the Great Emancipator was actually an “executioner.”
CBS News reports:
The statue of Lincoln was covered in red spray paint in the 1700 block of North Stockton Drive, near the Chicago History Museum, in an apparent act of protest on Indigenous Peoples Day.
The vandals also sprayed several messages on the statue’s pedestal and the wall behind it, including “Lincoln Was An Executioner” and “May All Empires Fall From Turtle Island To Palestine.” Turtle Island is a name for North America used by some indigenous people. The reference to Lincoln as an executioner is an apparent reference to his ordering the executions of 38 Dakota men after they were involved in a violent conflict with white settlers in Minnesota.
Police are investigating.
No arrests have been made.
The Lincoln statue by the history museum has been defaced pic.twitter.com/ouVQweDC9V
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This is the second time that the statue has been targeted over the past few years. The statue was spray painted with graffiti on the base with red paint splashed on the head and back in 2002.
For years, leftists have targeted Abraham Lincoln because he allowed for the execution of 38 Dakota warriors who committed war crimes against settlers in Minnesota after pardoning 300 who had been convicted and sentenced to death, like the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, leftwing activists have come to view the murder and rape of white Minnesota settlers as justifiable because of “colonization.”
The Great Emancipator is not the only legendary American leader to see his statues attacked in recent years. A Thomas Jefferson statue was removed by Democrats from New York City Hall after standing for 187 years.
“The city’s Public Design Commission voted 8-0 in favor of relocating the statue, due to Jefferson’s history as a slave owner.
‘Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder who owned over 600 human beings,’ Councilmember Adrienne Adams, co-chair of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, said in a presentation last month. ‘It makes me deeply uncomfortable knowing that we sit in the presence of a statue that pays homage to a slaveholder who fundamentally believed that people who look like me were inherently inferior, lacked intelligence, and were not worthy of freedom or right.’
Councilmember Inez Barron told the commission last month that the statue of Jefferson was inappropriate in a room where New Yorkers gathered to govern,” according to CNN.
Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, a document used to spur the antislavery movement in the United States.
The city is also considering the removal of other American leaders, such as George Washington, which stand throughout the city.
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