The Shaw Memorial captures the likenesses of the first African American volunteer infantry unit – the 54th Massachusetts Regiment – that fought after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Their colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, advocated for the men to join the war because they desperately wanted to fight for freedom. If the soldiers had been captured in battle they could have been enslaved or killed. Their heroic story was recounted in the 1989 Hollywood film “Glory.”
The Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial was one of 16 public art works damaged when thousands of protesters swarmed Boston Common on Sunday night.
In London, this is what they did to Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill:
In South Africa Mahatma Ghandi:
This is who and what Black Lives Matter really is all about. Erasing history to remake it in their dark twisted and violent mold. It's not going to happen in the U.S. as long as their is a Second Amendment!
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