Boston Weighs Removing Replica Emancipation Memorial Of Lincoln, Freed Slave. Slaves Paid For The Original Memorial.

Leftist activists are petitioning to have the Emancipation Memorial removed in Boston which features former Republican President Abraham Lincoln and a newly freed slave who is rising from his knees while holding a broken chain.

“A petition to remove the statue was spearheaded by an African American man from Boston named Tory Bullock who says he’s been seeing the statue since he was a kid,” WCVB-TV Boston reported. “Bullock says his petition has more than 7,000 signatures and the attention of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who Bullock posted is willing to talk about removing it.”

Bullock said: “It says that it’s a statue that’s supposed to represent freedom. But, to me, it represents submissiveness. It represents: ‘Know your place, because that’s where you belong.'”

However, that is not what the statue represents and the statue is a replica of an identical statue in Washington, D.C. that slaves paid for as a tribute to Lincoln.