This is true 
SoL was supposed to be a slave breaking shackles if I'm correct.
Quite simple actually, gun control and slowly but surely taking guns away from Americans. I don't even really watch the news, but when I do for a couple of minutes, that's all they talk about is having new laws about arms.
An old hoax that started in 1999 has recently hit Facebook, claiming that the Statue of Liberty was originally a gift from France to pay homage to black soldiers who were forced to fight in the civil war.
A rumor that began as an email hoax in 1999 has hit Facebook as the next shocking news in American history. Hundreds of Facebook users have read the shocking claims about the Statue of Liberty: she was originally a black woman, meant to illustrate the Great Emancipation, but the U.S. refused and made France recast her as a white woman!
The photo caption states:
"Internet rumors have prompted new research into the origins of the Statue of Liberty, American's 151-foot-tall monument to freedom erected in New York Harbor in 1886.
The traditional view, as taught to American schoolchildren for the past hundred years, holds that Lady Liberty was created to commemorate the friendship forged between the United States and France during the Revolutionary War. By 1903, when the statue was inscribed with Emma Lazarus's poetic words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," it had come to symbolize America's status as a safe haven for refugees and immigrants from every corner of the world.
The rumors, which have circulated in various forms and served as the direct inspiration for National Park Service anthropologist Rebecca Joseph's decision to revisit the Statue of Liberty's past, tell quite a different story:
A History Lesson
It is hard to believe that after my many years of schooling secondary and post) the following facts about the Statue of Liberty was never taught. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people including myself have visited the Statue of Liberty over the years but yet I'm unable to find one person who knows the true history behind the Statue- amazing. Yes,amazing that so much important Black history (such as this) is hidden from us (Black and White). What makes this even worse is the fact that the current twist on history perpetuates and promotes white supremacy at the expense of Black Pride.
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