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Pittsburgh might remove Stephen Foster statue
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:07 pm
Stephen Foster, known as "The Father of American Music," has a statue in Pittsburgh that being threatened with removal because of its depiction of a barefoot slave playing a banjo.
Foster wrote over 200 songs, including the American classics, "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" and "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" amongst many other memorable masterpieces.
This is the statue that has the left all riled up:
Citizen comment:
"Not only does it depict a white man in a dominant, oppressive posture over a black man portrayed as a slave submissively playing a banjo at his feet, but it boldly represents the same white man unabashedly claiming the black man's work on his own."
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This country has lost its damned mind.
Foster wrote over 200 songs, including the American classics, "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races" and "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" amongst many other memorable masterpieces.
This is the statue that has the left all riled up:
Citizen comment:
"Not only does it depict a white man in a dominant, oppressive posture over a black man portrayed as a slave submissively playing a banjo at his feet, but it boldly represents the same white man unabashedly claiming the black man's work on his own."
LINK
This country has lost its damned mind.
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Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:09 pm to LSUgusto
Stephen Stinking Foster?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:09 pm to LSUgusto
Wait I thought Jews capitalized on black music
Original Hes
Original Hes
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:10 pm to LSUgusto
I think Alabama should remove Nick Saban's statue.....
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:10 pm to LSUgusto
That black appropriated my banjo.
ETA: Slave has to go. Keep Foster.
ETA: Slave has to go. Keep Foster.
This post was edited on 10/13/17 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:12 pm to LSUgusto
The Camptown Ladies?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:13 pm to Machine
quote:
Stephen Stinking Foster?
Is that old dog tray?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:14 pm to LSUgusto
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“He’s doing what the music industry does today: He’s got a slave playing the music, and he’s going to end up with the copyright.”
Yeah...that's exactly what is happening in the music industry today. Unless P. Diddy has slaves and Eminem was Dr. Dre's slave.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:16 pm to AubieALUMdvm
quote:
Is that old dog tray?
this happens to be a nocturne
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:19 pm to Machine
Frederic fricking Chopin
Posted on 10/13/17 at 8:27 pm to LSUgusto
Posted on 10/13/17 at 9:19 pm to LSUgusto
Surprised it lasted this long
Posted on 10/13/17 at 9:36 pm to upgrayedd
Beethovens 5th was Hennessy
Posted on 10/13/17 at 9:39 pm to fontell
Posted on 10/13/17 at 9:46 pm to upgrayedd
Did you see black Jesus as well?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 10:12 pm to LSUgusto
Can't they just remove the shoeless banjo player? Problem sloved. Then it's just a statue of a white man nobody has heard of.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 10:26 pm to LSURussian
quote:If there was ever a man who capitalized on black talent more than Nick Saban, I don't know who it is.
I think Alabama should remove Nick Saban's statue.....
Posted on 10/13/17 at 10:39 pm to HubbaBubba
Actually Nick has capitalized on the white man named Mark Emmert.
Let the gumps keep their precious shrine.
Let the gumps keep their precious shrine.
Posted on 10/13/17 at 10:43 pm to LSUgusto
Wuz Kangz?
Posted on 10/13/17 at 11:50 pm to LSUgusto
How do we know that black guy was a slave? Does it say that on the statue somewhere? Just tell people he was his gay lover. Lefties will eat that shite up.
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