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The works are meant to build context around some of the 41 monuments deemed problematic by a city commission. Hector Gonzalez created "Tierra Nuestra" (Our Land), featuring a young man of mixed Mexican and Native-American heritage standing on a horse with a boom box on his arm in front of the current "Signal of Peace" monument at Diversey and the lake.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The irony is that these morons destroying the statutes are no different than than the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. And they are too stupid to realize it. There’s no difference between blowing up the statutes of the area’s former occupiers or simply calling them ‘problematic’, removing them and melting them down instead. It achieves the same goal. And erecting the ugly statute in its place is mockery of the people and artists who lived here in the past and made this great city what it used to be. They find the people who used to live here… Read more »
I sure hope members of this commission are well compensated with a pension.
Hmm.. perhaps the artist wasn’t talented enough to have Little Feather Sanchez also twerking in his depiction. That would really seal the deal.