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Chicago dedicated a bronze bust in honor of a man once thought of as the founder of Chicago on Saturday, according to Chicago Breaking News. Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was a Haitian fur trapper and the "first non-indigenous settler to the Chicago area," the report said. He was named founder of the city by the state of Illinois in 1968. The bust, which was donated by members of the city's Haitian-American community, is located on the east side of Michigan Avenue, north of the Chicago River.
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Thankfully, they went with a realistic rendering as opposed to an abstract monument. Some people might think however, "Hey, we really don't know what DuSable looked like."
That may be true, but the goal of commemorating him is best served by a depiction that shows him clearly as an African-American (By the way, it's unknown what percentage of African blood that he had).
I give this statue two thumbs up.
Wardie O Up
Thanks for being astute enough to mention the world African-American with respect to DuSable. Its the hight of stupidity to write a story about Dusable and not mention
the word
African-American. Sometimes I'm just appalled by Chicagoist's coverage of race in Chicago. Well actually Chicagoist tends to be more surface in its coverage of race( as opposed to appalling) where this post is just offensive.