Black Woman Vandalizes Monument To Black Civil War Soldiers In Boston
A monument of a famous all-black regiment that fought for the union in the Civil War was vandalized in Boston and the most surprising part is that the culprit was a Black woman.
Rosemine Occean reportedly tossed yellow paint on the monument which depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
The woman is reportedly mentally disturbed and said that she vandalized the monument because the sculpture was “an improper depiction of history.”
A psychologist, pleading on behalf of Occean, testified that Occean was diagnosed with a mood disorder over ten years ago. Occean entered a plea of not guilty to malicious destruction of property over $250 and one count of vandalizing a historic monument.
“The 54th” was the focus of the popular 1989 movie “Glory,” for which Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for acting as a freed slave who enlisted in the regiment. Other stars in the film were Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, and Andre Braugher.
Lt. Benny White, a Civil War re-enactor whose group honors the regiment commented on the vandalism case saying,
“I think I feel a little sad for her because she may not know what the monument really stands for. I won’t judge her, that’s not my place. But I would like to see that person get some kind of a training course about what these men went through during the Civil War. This [monument] honors more than just the men of the 54th,” White said. “It’s for all of the 30,000 African-American men who gave their lives in the Civil War.”
Although what she did was horrific, most people can forgive Occean, considering that she has spent the last ten years dealing with a mental disorder.
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I want to hear her out. Maybe she’s upset about how black people were used to support an agenda that never liked or helped black people!
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To attack her character when she gave a seemingly responsible reason to why she did it is written with ad hominem. If it is a distortion of history, so be it- in her opinion. probe that notion and not the fact that she has a seemingly mood disorder- people with mood disorders don’t make statements like that.
A man…
Or maybe she is just mentally ill?
WTF?
I agree with her…these perverted catholic would rather spend money on a dam statue, then help the people…and, we already know that the history is distorted…the statue was erected after their service, but some 50 years later to pacify us as a race…WTF?
I would rather read about the history, and have the money spent on us, creating jobs and emergency help for people…not on that dam statue…
So the court decided to fine her $200.00, consider her mentally ill, instead of helping a sister move forward with her life in an effort to help her become more productive and self confidence…
If you want to know what anything stands for in this country, just watch the movie “ROOTS”…oops, no one wants to see that movie again because it is very painful in all aspects of life…
Sometime, I feel like these perverted Catholics and uncle Tom’s want erect such distortions just to keep us in mental slavery, never achieving anything in life…
I do not want to know about you, I want to know how you got to where you are…who taught you, what school did you go too…how to come over-come negativity in all aspects of life…
I do not want to how successful Oprah is, but how she got there…how did she manage to get a TV show in Chicago? how did she land a nation-wide show, and how others made it?
Erecting statues and creating holidays is the equivalent of “George Jefferson” saying “My father was a son of a Shepard…he had to work the land, and I now I have 7 stores I built by myself because I am genius”, bull-c**p…tell me how did you get the financial backing to get started…how not to trust anyone with money, etc…
Help point me in the right direction so I can pass it down to my kids and to other kids…
We have to remember that some blacks fought on the confederate side also, I assume that the majority however fought on the side of the Union in order to eventually free themselves from the inhumane shackles of slavery. So this black monument has two sets of black faces mentally when we honor the black men who fought and died during the civil war, which many whites still have not accepted the fact that the South lost in their hearts bascially against their desire to maintain slavery, which was a money machine for their ancestors.
I live within walking distance of that statue and the historic African Meeting House where Slaves were hidden. Entering that African Meeting House brought chills to my soul.
I was not aware the statue had been vandalized. I’ll have to go take a look.
There’s a lot of Black history here in Boston–all the way back to Crispus Attucks and the Revolution.
That dumb heffa wasn’t retarded enough, to destroy a Black soldier’s monument!!! If that monument was a white boy, she would not have done a d**n thing.
SHE’S JUST A SELF HATING NEGROID WITH MENTAL SELF-HATE PROBLEMS!!!
She suffers from HATERISM, which is self-hate for one’s self and her fellow man!
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Mental illness isn’t always an excuse or a justifiable reason in regards to destruction of property, therefore she still should be held acccountable for her actions with mental health counseling attached. Unfortunately, she committed a destructive act to African American history and with education, medication, and theraphythe matter can be resolved.