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This is the Monument to Joe Louis/Black Power Fist in downtown Detroit:
It's made out of Bronze and is supposed to represent both Joe Louis and Black Power. The sculptor is a Mexican-American Activist named Robert Graham. He said it was meant to be a battering ram, and is even pointed in the direction of Canada
Which is totally awesome because fuck Canada, but here's what we should do:
Because BLM has been tearing down statues and vandalizing memorials of people ranging from Robert E Lee to Winston Churchill (literally the greatest Anti-Fascist who ever lived), we should go loot the Fist.
We get everyone's pickups and service trucks, and go down there with concrete saws and an entire pallet of blades. Cut it down, Chop it up, and cart it off.
Bronze is going for $1.40/lb right now, that sculpture weighs exactly 5,000 lbs as part of the intent of the Artist. So with kerf loss that's about $6,700 worth of scrap.
This would be doubly good because Joe Louis was a good guy. He was friends with Max Schmelling and even defended Max to the Press a couple of times when Max was accused of being a Nazi etc (Max Schmelling actually hid two Jewish children during Kristalnacht in 1938).
So, like BLM tearing down statues of US Grant or defacing the Lincoln Memorial, we could also demoralize BLM by tearing down a monument to a pretty good guy, the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis.
Hey, two wrongs don't make a right you say? Welp, it's been demonstrated that Taking the High Road is a loser's game, and violence and force matter more than Right and Wrong.
Plus we could divide up $6,700 which should cover gas and abrasive blades (I know nothing of concrete saws, they seem like they could cut anything...)
I've devised this brilliant plan while contemplating the absolute impotence of Don Trump during all of this, he must be demoralized because no one even showed up to defend a Monument until last Friday. We've left poor Don hanging in the breeze, but that's what he gets for still trusting his son-in-law Jared. (Jared
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It's made out of Bronze and is supposed to represent both Joe Louis and Black Power. The sculptor is a Mexican-American Activist named Robert Graham. He said it was meant to be a battering ram, and is even pointed in the direction of Canada

Because BLM has been tearing down statues and vandalizing memorials of people ranging from Robert E Lee to Winston Churchill (literally the greatest Anti-Fascist who ever lived), we should go loot the Fist.
We get everyone's pickups and service trucks, and go down there with concrete saws and an entire pallet of blades. Cut it down, Chop it up, and cart it off.
Bronze is going for $1.40/lb right now, that sculpture weighs exactly 5,000 lbs as part of the intent of the Artist. So with kerf loss that's about $6,700 worth of scrap.
This would be doubly good because Joe Louis was a good guy. He was friends with Max Schmelling and even defended Max to the Press a couple of times when Max was accused of being a Nazi etc (Max Schmelling actually hid two Jewish children during Kristalnacht in 1938).
So, like BLM tearing down statues of US Grant or defacing the Lincoln Memorial, we could also demoralize BLM by tearing down a monument to a pretty good guy, the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis.
Hey, two wrongs don't make a right you say? Welp, it's been demonstrated that Taking the High Road is a loser's game, and violence and force matter more than Right and Wrong.
Plus we could divide up $6,700 which should cover gas and abrasive blades (I know nothing of concrete saws, they seem like they could cut anything...)
I've devised this brilliant plan while contemplating the absolute impotence of Don Trump during all of this, he must be demoralized because no one even showed up to defend a Monument until last Friday. We've left poor Don hanging in the breeze, but that's what he gets for still trusting his son-in-law Jared. (Jared
