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April 11, 2007
Statue Debate Enters PC World
Statue of baseball-loving family unveiled outside Hadlock Field
PORTLAND, Maine
Boston.com
With snow still surrounding the stadium, the Portland Sea Dogs on Monday unveiled a 9 1/2-foot-tall bronze monument depicting a family of four heading to the ball park to enjoy America's favorite pastime.
Initially, the six-figure gift was met with a cold shoulder after Sherbell's preliminary model ran into opposition from members of the city's public art committee.
The vice chairman of the committee declared that he was not enthused with designs featuring "white folks on pedestals." Another committee member said Portland already had too many statues depicting "white, Anglo-Saxon people." The committee also didn't like the fact that the "family" wore clothing with the Portland Sea Dogs logo.
The committee voted against accepting the gift, based on photographs of a "maquette," a small, preliminary clay design of Sherbell's vision for the project. But the City Council ultimately voted unanimously to accept it.
The monument, on the sidewalk outside the city-owned ball park, consists of four statues depicting a boy wearing a baseball glove, his father with sunglasses and camera in his pockets, and a mother carrying a baby girl and a teddy bear.
Wild Thing's comment.......
The vice chairman of the committee declared that he was not enthused with designs featuring "white folks on pedestals."
I guess some of those people want statues that have faces with no features whatsoever. How silly for people to be like this!
Posted by Wild Thing at April 11, 2007 12:40 AM
Comments
Why is it okay for other races to make fun of white folks but it's not okay for white folks to make fun of other races? We get called Racist if we do that.
But if we call them a racist, they'd start a riot.
Isn't someone calling me a derogatory white slur just as bad as me calling them a derogatory slur?
I like the statue.
We invented Baseball and we should be very proud of it. Baseball is a family fun event. For everyone!
Posted by: Lynn at April 11, 2007 06:22 AM
Heck, I've been waiting for the two "Race Warlord Poverty Pimps" 'Reverands' Jackson and Sharpton to foment a riot so they'll burn down the hood over their 'outrage' at Don Imus, yeah that'll teach whitey to use their own vernacular. We look at the Islamo-fascists and see Jihadists, I see much the same when I see their narrow minded behavior. Are they this way because of the media coverage they get or is it really because they are...Jihadists? There are too many who don't act this way for me to believe it's endemic, I look at Larry Elders and Bill Cosby as just two successful examples of leaders that don't play that racist game, and they are not reverands.
Posted by: Jack at April 11, 2007 09:31 AM
And the Rutgers' Girls' Basketball team goes,
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Posted by: OINK at April 11, 2007 10:01 AM
How about a statue with burkas and bomb vests!
Posted by: TomR at April 11, 2007 11:20 AM
