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Black Lives Matter Vandalizes ‘Glory’ Memorial to Black Civil War Soldiers

Black Lives Matter Vandalizes ‘Glory’ Memorial to Black Civil War Soldiers
By Daniel Greenfield

More black lives that don’t matter.

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.

A $3-million dollar restoration project for the sculpture dedicated to the African American soldiers who fought in the Civil War was granted clearance just last week. The outbreak of the coronavirus had delayed the project.

The conservator’s recent prep work protected the front of the bronze relief with plywood, but its concrete backside was vandalized with four-letter words and phrases including “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “Police are Pigs.”

“This monument is considered one of the nation’s greatest pieces of public art and the greatest piece to come out of the Civil War,” said Liz Vizza, executive director of the Friends of the Public Garden, “It was, amazingly enough, dedicated 123 years ago on May 31st – the day it was defaced.”

Accident or not an accident?

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.”

So did the Black Lives Matter thugs know what they were vandalizing and not care? Or did they consider the soldiers contemptible because they fought for the United States?

Either answer is concievable.

These racists hate America. They hate anyone who supports this country and fights for it, black or white.

Vizza said the Friends and the city rallied quickly to carefully clean all 16 damaged works including the 9/11 Memorial in the Public Garden and the statue of Abigail Williams on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. They finished on Tuesday.

Of course they also vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.

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