>>>>First -- who cares about replicating this image with precision?  Did you
want a bronze version of a photograph?  Or do you think that perhaps what
we have here is a s-y-m-b-o-l; a symbolic rendering of the heroic actions
of those who lived and those who died, but all of whom we New Yorkers
count as heroes.  <<<<

But that's just the point!  There is no reason to practically plagiarize a
photo in order to commemmorate and honor the heroes of that tragedy.  Make
an original sculpture, by all means!  But to replicate a famous photo,
changing the faces to misrepresent that photo, is offensive.


>>>This is a limbaughism used to set the stage to snatch back the hard-won
advances of the just struggles of women and people of color over the past
couple of decades -- the centuries old struggles of people historically at
the bottom and the back.  Your intended dismissal is intellectually lazy,
irresponsible, and that's the kind interpretation.<<<<

And this, to borrow another set of initials, is pure BS.  Not one message on
this thread as said there should not be non-wasps included in a memorial!
The messages have been about adulturation of an existing icon, not about
racism.


>>>>We don't need another statue of white men representing all of humanity
-- or all of the New York Fire Department for that matter.  If this
particular image meets more of this kind of backward opposition, no
problem: we have many, many images of heroes in action, and we should
pick a representative one.<<<<

On this we've already all agreed, and it's not the issue of this thread.

Robin K Panza
Section of Birds, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh  PA  15213  USA
phone:  412-622-3255
fax:  412-622-8837
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