https://justthenews.com/government/local...am-lincoln

"...The Emancipation Memorial was originally erected in Washington, D.C., in 1876. The National Park Service says that funds to build it were collected "solely from freed slaves (primarily from African American Union veterans)." A copy of the statue was donated to Boston three years later.

Yet activists are now calling for its removal, citing what they say are its racist optics: It depicts Lincoln standing over a kneeling, freed black slave.

Mayor Marty Walsh, meanwhile, is allegedly sympathetic to those demands.

Walsh "is in favor of removing the statue," the Boston Globe reported this week, and he is "willing to engage in a dialogue about its future in Boston....""

https://www.politico.com/states/californ...rs-1293431
On a related note, California votes to remove Columbus from the state capitol. And a John Sutter statue was also removed ("...the Swiss settler of Sacramento who helped colonize California...").

Guessing the Lenin statue in Seattle is good to go?