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Subject: Statute of Liberty
Author:  Jimmy Parker <[log in to unmask]> at PO_EXTERNET
Date:    2/11/00 12:22 PM






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Subject: Statute of Liberty
Author:  [log in to unmask] at Internet-USA
Date:    2/11/2000 11:21 AM


Something to make you wonder, Hmmmm.

Statue of Liberty ???
>>
>> Subject:   Black Fact
>> >
>> >        It's amazing the things you can find out!!!
>> >        Received this from a friend..
>> >
>> >        Good day, It is hard to believe that after my many years of
>> >        schooling (secondary and post)
>> >        the following facts about the Statue of Liberty was never
>> >        taught.
>> >
>> >        Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including
>> >        myself have visited the Statue of
>> >        Liberty over the years but yet I'm unable to find one person
>> >        who knows the true history behind the Statue ...
>> >        amazing.
>> >
>> >        Yes, amazing that so much important Black history (such as
>> >        this) is hidden from us (Black and White).
>> >        What makes this even worse is the fact that the current twist
>> >        on history perpetuates and promotes
>> >        white supremacy at the expense of Black Pride.>During my visit
>> >        to France I saw the original Statue of Liberty.
>> >        However there was a difference, the statue in France is Black.
>> >
>> >        "Ya learn something new everyday!"  The Statue of Liberty was
>> >        originally a Black woman, but,
>> >        as memory serves, it was because the model was Black.  In a
>> >        book called "The Journey of The
>> >        Songhai People", according to Dr.  Jim Haskins, a member of the
>> >         National Education Advisory
>> >        Committee of the Liberty-Ellis Island Committee, professor of
>> >        English at the University Of Florida,
>> >        and prolific Black author, points out that what stimulated the
>> >        original idea for that 151 foot statue in
>> >        the harbor.  He says that the idea for the creation of the
>> >        statue initially was the part that Black soldiers
>> >        played in the ending of Black African Bondage in the United
>> >        States.  It was created in the mind of the
>> >        French historian Edourd de Laboulaye, chairman of the French
>> >        Anti-Slavery Society, who, together
>> >        with sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, proposed to the
>> >        French government that the people of France
>> >        present to the people of the United States through the American
>> >         Abolitionist Society, the gift of a Statue
>> >        of Liberty in recognition of the fact that Black soldiers won
>> >        the Civil War in the United States.  It was widely
>> >        known then that it was Black soldiers who played the pivotal
>> >        role in winning the war, and this gift would be a
>> >        tribute to their prowess.
>> >
>> >        Suzanne Nakasian, director of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis
>> >        Island Foundations' National Ethnic Campaign
>> >        said that the Black Americans' direct connection to Lady
>> >        Liberty is unknown to the majority of Americans,
>> >        BLACK or WHITE.
>> >
>> >        When the statue was presented to the US.  Minister to France in
>> >         1884, it is said that he remonstrated that
>> >        the dominant view of the broken shackles would be offensive to
>> >        a U.S.  South, because since the statue
>> >        was a reminder of Blacks winning their freedom.  It was a
>> >        reminder to a beaten South of the ones who caused
>> >        their defeat, their despised former captives.
>> >
>> >        Documents of Proof:
>> >        1.) You may go and see the original model of the Statue of
>> >        Liberty, with the broken chains at her feet and in
>> >        her left hand.  Go to the Museum of the City of N.Y, Fifth
>> >        Avenue and 103rd Street (212) 534-1672 or call the
>> >        same number and dial ext.208 and speak to Peter Simmons and he
>> >        can send you some documentation.
>> >
>> >        2.)Check with the N.Y.  Times magazine, part II May 18, 1986.
>> >
>> >        3.) The dark original face of the Statue of Liberty can be seen
>> >         in the N.Y.  Post June 17, 1986, also the Post
>> >        stated the reason for the broken chains at her feet.
>> >
>> >        4.) Finally, you may check with the French Mission or the
>> >        French Embassy at the U.N or in Washington, D.C.
>> >        and ask for some original French material on the Statue of
>> >        Liberty, including the Bartholdi original model.
>> >        You can call in September (202) 944-6060 or 6400.
>> >
>> >        Please pass this information along!
>> >        Knowledge is Power!



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