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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1238799)	6/12/2020 1:45:22 PM
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And now, Philadelphia we have a problem. In Philadelphia City Hall, protesters vandalized a statue of Matthias Baldwin by writing, "colonizer" at the bottom of the monument. And just who was Baldwin? An inventor and an abolitionist whose philanthropy included years of helping to educate young black children. Hey Guy@tauntaunsean · Jun 11, 2020 Replying to @ericernerstedt and 4 others Someone who didn't commit genocide is a good start, simpleton. Eric Ernerstedt@ericernerstedt Ok, so why was the statue of Matthias Baldwin defaced like this? He was an abolitionist who funded schools for black children out of pocket. No genocide there. 502 5:01 AM - Jun 11, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 239 people are talking about this Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ?@AOC · Jun 11, 2020 People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists. Andy Byrd@go_byrds This is a statue of early abolitionist Matthias Baldwin being defaced in Philadelphia, PA. 51 2:36 PM - Jun 11, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Andy Byrd's other Tweets "Among Baldwin’s philanthropies was education for black children," Encyclopedia Brittanica explains. "His abolitionist sympathies led to a Southern boycott of his engines shortly before the American Civil War." Baldwin also fought for the right of African Americans to vote in Pennsylvania during the state’s 1837 Constitutional Convention and hired African Americans to work in his shops. Joe Walsh, a member of the Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park, put it this way for National Review: “He was BLM [Black Lives Matter] before there was a slogan.” Recommended

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