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One of the recently vandalized monuments is a statue of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Someone smeared “BLM” and “(expletive) Slave Owners” on the seated figure prominently displayed in the city named after him, Whittier, California.
Some Monumentally Hard Decisions
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Left: A portrait of American poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (1804-1892), circa 1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Right: The vandalized statue of J.G. Whittier in Central Park, Whittier, Calif., in 2020. Reddit.com
By Froma Harrop
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