“破旧立新”石像终于搬走了

“破旧立新”石像终于搬走了

Update 4/16/2018: New York City's Public Design Commission voted to accept a mayoral panel's recommendation to remove the statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims for relocation to Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, where Sims is buried, accompanied by signage with historical context.

Dr. Bernadith Russell, a gynecologist, emotionally embraced a friend as they watched the statue being removed. Russell said that when she was in medical school, Sims "was held up as the father of gynecology with no acknowledgement of the enslaved women he experimented on."

The commission's president, Signe Nielsen, wept on Monday when she called for the vote.

Michele Bogart, a former member of the design commission and an art history professor, was not pleased, having urged that the statue remain in Central Park, saying: "History matters. ... Don't run from it."

Amrit Trewn, an activist who had advocated for demolition, was dissatisfied for different reasons, and said the decision to relocate the statue means "that this physical representation of anti-black violence will still stand and maintain its presence in the heart of yet another community of color."

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