Discovery of Frederick Douglass letter sheds light on contested Lincoln statue

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An argument between history professors over a statue which many protesters say should be removed from Lincoln Park in Washington led to the discovery of a letter in which Frederick Douglass described his feelings about it.

“The negro here, though rising, is still on his knees and nude,” the civil rights campaigner wrote to the National Republican newspaper in 1876, about the statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, standing over a man who has broken his chains.

“What I want to see before I die is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.”

Amid protests over structural racism and police brutality, debate over such statues has surged. Donald Trump has made defending monuments to Confederate leaders and figures with outdated views on race a central part of his campaign for re-election.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/discovery-frederick-douglass-letter-sheds-171808639.html

[marybourg]

1. Wow, not only does yahoo not know the

difference between "between" and "among", but they seem to attract an entirely right wing-nut readership.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. The article is from the Guardian

and that's a demographic issue, Yahoo has been around since the super early days of the web (since 1994? 1995?) and was a web portal/homepage site with free email, etc, so people who are still using Yahoo, 25 years later, are more or less the same people still using AOL, and those people tend to be old (and the Yahoo News comments sections have always been a cesspool, even back in the days when Clinton was president).

[3catwoman3]

2. Had to look up couchant.

DU is very educational.