John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist laments the latest piece of artwork erected in America’s largest city.
The cultural parasites of the left have struck again. This time, they have erected a bronze statue of a 12-foot-tall anonymous overweight black woman in New York City’s Times Square, where it will stand for the next month.
Matt Walsh asked on X whether it was a particular person “or just a statue of a random black woman for no apparent reason?”
It is indeed a random black woman, and the randomness is for a very specific reason. Having torn down beautiful statues of American heroes and icons, the left is now erecting intentionally ugly statues designed to attack the very idea of greatness and undermine the notion that exceptional people should be memorialized and honored in public. And they’re doing it for the ultimate purpose of seizing and wielding cultural and political power.
But don’t just take my word for it. The statue, we’re told, “disrupts preconceived ideas of what defines a triumphant figure and challenges who should be rendered immortal through monumentalization.”
These people do not come to build but to destroy, and what they erect in the place of what they have destroyed isn’t just boring and narcissistic, it’s also cultural propaganda that insists on a neo-Marxist paradigm pitting the supposedly marginalized and oppressed against the oppressors. And we all know who the oppressors are.
Recall that in recent years New York City removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson that had stood in city hall for 187 years and took down a statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History that had been there for nearly a century. The monuments to these great Americans were, in the left’s telling, nothing more than celebrations of racism and bigotry, and had to be torn down as part of their cultural revolution.
