A Racist Statue in Boston?

The Theodore Parker Church in the West Roxbury section of Boston has a larger-than-life size statue of its namesake, Unitarian minister Theodore Parker, an ardent Abolitionist, and a member of the Secret Six.  There is a relief or panel on the left side of the statue that depicts a white woman breast feeding a baby, and a black child reaching up to the woman. I noticed this panel some years ago when living in the neighborhood, and while thinking it weird, didn’t think the artist had any racist motives and I still don’t.  However, over the past few years, the Left is on a secular crusade to expunge our history.  During the riots that followed the death of George Floyd, ” “mainly peaceful protestors” led by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, not only ripped down and/or vandalized Confederate statues but statues of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Fredrick Douglas.  They even vandalized the statue honoring the Massachusetts’ 54th Regiment-an all-black Civil War regiment.

In December of 2020, The City of Boston removed a statue of Abraham Lincoln that has been there since 1879 because some “social justice warrior ” found it offensive. A petition was circulated by a Boston teenager who claimed that he walked by the statue on a daily basis and felt it offensive.   It gained sympathetic media attention, and on cue, the members of the Boston Art Commission, with zero input from the residents of Boston, voted, in true Soviet politburo style, unanimously to remove the statue. I called and E-mailed members of the commission asking that the statue be donated to Camp Constitution where it will be placed in our soon to be opened Orwellian Memory Hole Museum.  They never replied to me.

So, if we apply the same standards that the Boston Arts employs, shouldn’t the good progressives at the Theodore Parker church who proudly fly the Black Lies Matter banner remove the “racist” panel?