Pres. Trump has said removing statues of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C., is 'not gonna happen' -- but the delegate who represents the city in Congress is trying to do just that.
"I think many of the people that are knocking down these statues don't even have any idea what the statue is, what it means, who it is," Trump said Wednesday in the Rose Garden."Now they're looking at Jesus Christ. They're looking at George Washington. They're looking at Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Jefferson. Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen, not as long as I'm here.
President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 24, 2020.Holmes Norton says she's well aware of the history of the statues she's fighting to take down. She doesn't have an issue with Lincoln himself, who ended slavery, but with the way the statue was created and the power relationship depicted, saying it was"controversial from the start" and that it belongs in a museum instead.
The Lincoln Park Emancipation statue that is drawing scrutiny depicting former President Abraham Lincoln standing over a kneeling freed slave, in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2020."Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue to be built in 1876, the design and sculpting process was done without their input, and it shows. The statue fails to note in any way how enslaved African Americans pushed for their own emancipation.
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