Proving once again that the Black Lives Matter and AntiFA terrorists have nothing to do with bettering the lives of current minorities, these thugs decided to topple the statue of Frederick Douglass over the weekend. Frederick Douglass was an African-American abolitionist. He also helped Harriet Tubman shuttle slaves to freedom from the Democrat plantations. The statue in Rochester, New York and was dismantled on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, which he delivered in that city in 1852. Black Lives Matter and AntiFA left wing terrorists tossed the Frederick Douglass statue into Genesee River gorge as if it were a piece of garbage.
| Black Lives Matter, AntiFA topple statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass |
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In a statement provided to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, police said the statue, after it was removed, “had been placed over the fence to the gorge and was leaning against the fence.”
The statue was abandoned an estimated 50 feet away from where it had stood, according to the report. There was damage to the base and a finger.
President Trump condemned the vandalism on Monday, saying in a tweet: “This shows that these anarchists have no bounds!”
In Rochester on July 5, 1852, Douglass gave the speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” in which he called the celebration of liberty a sham in a nation that enslaves and oppresses its black citizens.
To a slave, Douglass said, Independence Day is “a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”