General Albert Pike Memorial in Washington

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  Catie Quimby

  :: 10 March 2018 12:20:11

  We can not continue nor allow our country to celebrate racist leaders. Do the right thing and remove the statue to a private museum instead of a public park.

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  Christopher Hodapp

  :: 29 August 2017 11:43:35

  Pike's statue is here because he spent 32 years as the head of the Scottish Rite SJ (a third of its entire lifespan at that time) and their headquarters was diagonally across the street between 1870-1915. He lived in it for two decades and died there, as did his two successors. The statue used to be across the street to the east on a tiny triangular sliver of worthless property until the building of I-395 and the Municipal Center in 1975 when it had to be moved becauswe the streets were rearranged. The statue memorializes his vast work for the Rite, which included writing all of the rituals for their 4th-33rd degrees, as well as his philosophical book, Morals & Dogma. He is depicted in civilian dress, not military, because his brief position for the Confederacy (about 6 months) when he was named a brigadier general to be the administrator for all of the Indian tribes in the South, was by no means the important position in his lifetime. The Scottish Rite paid for the statue ($15,000 in 1911) to be erected for their 100th anniversary. Given the enormous growth in membership of Scottish Rite Freemasons in America after the Civil War ended and right up until the 1990s, Pike's importance has been, and remains significant to a very large number of Americans.

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  Child of Lugh

  :: 21 August 2017 00:46:26

  The Maiden bearing the standard of the A&ASR underneath the Sovereign Grand Commander

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  Jason Kowalski

  :: 14 August 2017 11:30:27

  It's racist. take it down

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  M Hall

  :: 24 November 2016 19:11:24

  A grand statue in memory of a great man.