Washington National Cathedral names artist
to replace Confederate windows
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/24/2021 9:35:10 AM
Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, to design new stained-glass windows with themes of racial justice that will replace a set with Confederate imagery that were removed in 2017. The landmark sanctuary said in a statement that the four windows will tell “a new and more complete” story of the nation’s racial history. Poet Elizabeth Alexander will write a poem to be inscribed in stone tablets alongside the windows, overlaying older ones that venerated the lives of Confederate soldiers.(Snip)The cathedral, also the seat of the Episcopal Church’s presiding bishop
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The press then filed a complaint with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She basically treated them like dirt and like their objections meant nothing.
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One panel could show Barack Obama styled as a saint with a foot resting on Lady Liberty's neck, handing out food stamp cards and cell phones to jubilant People of Color, with many more approaching from a broken border in the distance. The other could show rapper Lil Nas X engaged in a sex act with Satan while young children look on in wonderment, with churches burning in the distance. A nation should celebrate its core values, and certainly the old windows, which depicted pious men of great virtue who dared defend their individual states from federal overreach, needed to go as we embrace global Marxism.