So now our tax dollars are funding PBS to smear the Statue of Liberty. Given to this country by the French in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was always a symbol of freedom and friendship. Now, tax payer funded PBS claims the Statue of Liberty is “entangled with whiteness” or something..
For their Iconic America documentary on the Statue of Liberty, PBS made sure to get plenty of perspectives on what that statue means. Unfortunately, it was a wide variety of left-wing perspectives as PBS struggled to decide whether Lady Liberty rebukes immigration enforcement or partly associates liberty with whiteness.
While the original plan for the Lady to be holding a pair of broken chains that was eventually replaced with a tablet that reads July 4, 1776. The change in plans led host David Rubenstein to ask, “Let’s pretend for a moment that this was actually the version that was built where the chains symbolizing the breaking of the bonds of slavery had actually been in the left hand of the Statue of Liberty. Do you think that would have changed history in any way?”
After Stovall theorized that “it could have,” Rubenstein asked a more direct question, “As you look at the Statue of Liberty today, as an American, do you regard it as an important symbol of our country, or do you look at it as a flawed symbol of our country?”
Stovall claimed “it’s both.” He argued, “it’s a symbol of the ways in which freedom has often been entangled with whiteness.”
After making clear he does not “advocate getting rid of it,” Stovall added “It’s important as a symbol of everything that is intrinsically interesting about America, right, both the good sides and the bad sides. And I think the fact that it does have this multiple kinds of symbolism to it, I think is really fascinating, so, let me just say I’m glad it’s there.”