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A 12-foot bronze statue now towers over Times Square — not of a historical figure, not of a leader or a liberator, but of a fictional “black woman” in casual clothing, hands on hips, faceless, nameless, and invented entirely for the sake of “representation.”
That word again.
Representation of what, exactly? Achievement? History? Courage? No. Just race. Just size.
Just narrative.
Race, not as a shared struggle or historical context, but as an aesthetic. Size, not as a reflection of lived experience or resilience, but as a political statement meant to normalize and glorify what would once be addressed with concern. And narrative? A story not rooted in fact, sacrifice, or virtue, but in ideology.
The narrative being pushed is this:
It doesn’t matter what you do, it matters what you are. Or more precisely, what you appear to be.
This is the death of merit and the rise of iconography detached from reality.
They say she “foregrounds the value of the individual.” But she has no name. No story. No origin. No legacy. That’s not individuality — that’s tokenism sculpted in bronze. A symbol built to tick every checkbox: Black, female, heavyset. It is a monument to abstraction, created to show how obedient we’ve become to the new orthodoxy. Obedient enough to nod at a statue and pretend it means something profound — when in fact, it means the opposite.
This is what happens when culture is captured: symbols replace standards, and slogans replace meaning. We tear down statues of real people — Jefferson, Lincoln, even Roosevelt — and we raise monuments to the imaginary, because reality is no longer convenient. Reality reminds people that greatness must be earned. Fiction allows the powerful to invent greatness out of thin air.
And in the name of ending racism, the Left has made race unavoidable. They push difference to the center of every public conversation, every piece of art, every policy. They demand that we not only notice identity but bow to it — no questions asked. What they claim is “uplifting” is, in truth, deeply condescending. It tells generations to come: you don’t need to build, fight, lead, or sacrifice — you just need to be seen.
And yet people applaud. Because we’ve trained society to worship image, not substance. The average pedestrian passing through Times Square doesn’t ask, “Who is this?” They ask, “Is this safe to criticize?” And in that hesitation, you can measure the fear that rules our time. Not a healthy reverence for art — but a learned silence in the face of propaganda.
The damage this does goes far beyond the bronze. It teaches the wrong lessons. It shifts our children’s understanding of what’s worth honoring. It dulls our sense of excellence and inflates our obsession with visibility. It doesn’t bring us together — it divides us by constantly reminding us of our boxes: racial, gendered, aesthetic, invented.
Statues matter. They are how civilizations remember what they value. And now? We raise a monument to nothing — and call it progress. We strip away greatness and install placeholders. We elevate identity over action, symbolism over story, and abstraction over truth.
While the Left erases our real heroes, it replaces them with hollow ones. Because that’s the point: if the Left can convince you to praise nothing, it can sell you anything.
A monument to nothing now stands in Times Square.
And that nothing is exactly what they want us to worship.
It is Marxist nihilism. Destroy western civilization and replace it with ugliness, the will to power, human depravity, cruelty, destruction of the individual, rejection of the sacred and replaced it with the empty worship of the self.
it looks like it’s 120 feet tall,not 12 feet. whichever, t’s a piece of crap that says…nothing.
and why Times Square?
one more nail in the coffin of American culture…
It is a moronic attempt to glorify obese, overindulgent, tasteless , slovenly nobodies who accomplish nothing, aspire to nothing besides eating as much crap as they can & taking up as much space as they can, all for nothing. They give the term Useless Eaters relevancy.
“A man’s self is his mind—the faculty that perceives reality, forms judgments, chooses values…
Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.“ – Ayn Rand
Did the Nazi have a SELF? An independent and active mind? No, the Nazi, like the Muslim, renounces his mind and obeys Hitler or Mohammed.
It is the self, the human mind , that invented this computer technology that makes it possible for you to disparage the human mind using computer technology.
WTF are you talking about? The usual Objectivist gobbledegook, espousing words signifying nothing.
It’s been years in coming But, for the first time, Intrepid, I’m giving you a thumbs down.
I don’t buy into everything Ayn Rand. This time THX is correct as he sometimes is.
Great Quote. Yes, both the Nazis & the Islamists both reject the self and demand total submission. They demand no doubting & no mind.
All the comments are so well said. Esp the statement about being cannibals which is exactly where the African tribes were not less than 200 yrs ago. It’s all in Heart of Darkness by Conrad. They weren’t kidding when they said darkness. ‘course, Conrad being an multinationalist was trying to expose the West’s hypocrisy espousing the idea that they were civilizing primitives when what they were really doing is hunting for the wealth of ivory. I say so what? Canibalilsm on a regular basis is not the diet of civilized man. And this statue is another nail in the coffin of the West. How can it not be?’ We’ve come a long way baby’ is sure true. and in such a short space of time. From the mountains of victory of WWII and leading the world in meritocracy to this slob. And don’t think she’s alone. Just ride any subway headed uptown and you’ll see what the country has as progeny. To all others I say be prepared to lose what? 70% of the standard of living that you’ve become accustomed to. all this while the Chinese promote their most gifted students and our elite institutions are elevating mnorities to fill the ranks of The Harvard Law Journal. Makes sense since it’s a given no one reads it for its articles and when the now president of it was asked is the DEI ranks of its members going to change he said ‘No change is planed as of this moment.” Sure. Viva America!
And, because of how the Left has overrun our history and our language, and taken over the American education system, most people don’t realize that the NAZIs were SOCIALISTS. It is absolutely amazing how few people know that Hitler was a Socialist, (NAZI, in German means “National Socialist Workers Party).
Oh, they say, Hitler was “right wing” because he was a “nationalist.” Bull Hockey.
A socialist is a socialist and left wing, no matter what color shirt he wears.
And besides, Hitler wasn’t a nationalist anyway, he tried to spread his socialism all over Europe. And he had no philosophical differences with Stalin or Russian Communism, but, like a big bully, he wanted it to all be under him, and not Stalin, so the two bullies fought each other. No surprise there.
Western civilization is a willing participant in its own destruction. How? By doing nothing meaningful to stop the mayhem and destruction inflicted upon western civilization my the far left. Proof? When leftist radicals take to the streets to riot, loot & burn, who’s there to tell them no and forcibly impose consequences on them for their bad behavior?
I doubt if I get an answer. Just vacant stares and silence. QED
Those who do try to stop them are promptly arrested and charged with crimes.
Exactly right. But maybe that atrocity is over with now. Here’s hoping.
Life in the jungle. Don’t visit NYC or spend money there for any reason.
The communists like Mao liked to erase history and have their rule be year number one. If this is the beginning of the new history of the United States being represented by this lame statue. We’re in more trouble than I thought. The rejection and ridicule of such erections to meaninglessness is required of all rational people. Juxtaposed with the Statue of Liberty, this the Statue of Nihilism. .
Did George Orwell get it a bit wrong, and is it Big Sister we are being asked to worship?
But suppose we had all listened to our Creator, the God of Abraham, who is the very Source of wisdom?
Exodus 20:1-5:
Then God spoke all these words:+
“I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You must not have any other gods besides me.
“You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. You must not bow down to them nor be enticed to serve them…”.
The Catholicism of the 1950s/60s (in which I was brought up) also ignored those words, and statues, especially of Mary, were everywhere. The pull to goddess worship is very strong, but isn’t it very dangerous?
I don’t know where you went to Church but in the Catholic Church I grew up in I was not taught to adore Mary as my Savior, she was and is admired because she gave birth to our Lord Jesus Christ who came into the world to save us from our sins and eternal damnation. Indeed I ask the Blessed Virgin to pray for me when I am troubled in the same manner that I ask my friends and family to.
This represents people of one race who have yet to figure out how to fix there problems with society when the obvious solution is right in front of them.
A stable family structure with a two parent household would be a good start.
At least it is realistic. Fat and sassy.
A great load of sassiness.
Maybe it has a hidden reference to Mike Obama.
More like fat and nasty.
We should all call that statue “The Oprah”.
It’s as bad as that little girl statue that was on Wall Street in front of the bull statue and was thankfully removed. Leftists are an obscenity.
Great cultures create art, and as the Author said, in better words, totalitarian societies create ugliness or in this case nothingness. No doubt, this statue is no Venus. Other than the Greeks and Romans name a pagan culture ancient or contemporary that has produced pleasant art. I suppose Indian fabric patterns are nice, but they put it on a cow and it poops on the sidewalk.
Just put enough graffiti on it, white paint preferably and then start defacing it with axes, until it gets torn down. Same playbook the Left uses. Don’t spend a dime trying to fix it.
Where is you friend the professor of the year. He is probably, busy so many awards ceremonies to attend don’t you know.
Haven’t seen his self absorbed drivel all that much in the last couple of days.
It’s nice to have a break from his silly gotcha questions and his history of his high school “accomplishments”
She looks like she is getting ready to put the skinny 16 year old white girl on the other side of the counter in intensive care for refusing to give her an extra chicken nugget.
To coin a phrase I appropriated from a famous president: “New York City, tear down that broad!”
Place that Oprah Statue on a pedestal that reads “YOU get a statue and YOU get a statue and YOU get a statue …”
How you identify a leftist in the crowd? Look at their history of no-achievements, envy and resentment. They have to copy rom whitey and adapt what they copy by painting it with “the right colors” because cannot create anything original.
How you identify a leftist in the crowd? Just look for the faces in the crowd that look like they’ve been constipated for several days and short, fat & hideously ugly feminizes with the green, purple and pink hair and body piercings and the “girlie-boys” in filthy pants & tube tops and covered with tattoos and 20lbs worth of body piercings.
Please let flocks of pigeons crap all over that obnoxious statue.
No no no Jeff, seagulls! One seagull leaves as much crap as 5 pigeons! I live near the beach. One thing you never do is park your car under a street light or telephone pole where seagulls gather and roost.
Those winged bastards get a kick out of “dive bombing” cars and will gang up on cars of a particular color (e.g., bright colors.) Worse, dried seagull crap will eat right through wax and damage the paint if you let it sit and dry long enough.
Feed them Alka Seltzer, LOL.
“You forgot the extra BBQ sauce in this order of McNuggets.”
If people only knew what McNuggets were really made of they wouldn’t eat it. By the way: which part of the chicken is the nuggets?
The human part.
Oh, from the photo, I thought it was a statue of Letitia James.
Afterall, Stalin had statues, too.
To skinny to be that bad hair weave, cellulite pocked gelatinous sow!
This statue is an homage to arrogant fat, black female activism and obesity.
It’s existence is in praise of ignorance and societal devolution brought forth
by a defective segment of the population. Though this defect isn’t 100%
inclusive of the segment responsible for the decay, it is fed by the rabid
state of the originators of the deadly characteristic of this brand.
Don’t forget to acknowledge the Democrat Party for it’s critical and criminal
part it has played in shaping the rabid hearts and minds of the 13+%.
It’s a memorial to all Lie-berals with an attitude, but I repeat myself.
Looks to me like it’s a tribute to some fatso that ate her share of ‘happy meals’.
Now why couldn’t a bunch of Americans decide to tear that ugly thing down as an eyesore in one of America’s “great cities”? News footage would shot, while the police looked on in amusement.
Never mind, that America has been shut down, and a 3rd world hell hole has taken its place.
No one has asked who paid for this atrocity and who allowed a permit to place it? Those would be very important questions to be answered and should be available as public knowledge. Who is perpetrating this desecration of all that is good by replacing it with evil. It is evil. It is an affront to humankind. It is Marxist. It is Communist. It is ‘New Age’. It is ugly. It is despicable.
Whoever is responsible should be charged with littering, and worse. They should be made to destroy it publicly, at their expense, then made to apologize to the good people of America
There must be CONSEQUENCES for those responsible or our society is done !!
maranatha, come Lord Jesus…………>
Rev. Roy……..<
An obese tattooed Canadian woman of European Heritage told me, a European American male, that the problems of the World today are the fault of ”too many white men”.
So I asked her if she could inform me about which Race and Gender of Humanity invented created and discovered all the things she uses in her daily life, like Electricity, Phones, Computers, Cars,Planes etc and what have Negro Females, African or American, invented, created or discovered for the greater good of humanity…
Ahe asked me if I was a Trump supporter…
And then she started scrolling through her Phone while walking away.
Zero sense of awareness in her life.
This massive statue in Times Square must be an insult to every black American female that is not fat or lacking in style or have a bad ass attitude thinking she is a victim,..
Its also an insult to EVERY American regardless of sex or Race.