Posted on 08/14/2017 3:08:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Sheila Jackson Lee and Jesse Jackson need to apply for name changes to more appropriate names that comply with the new reality of the SJW snowflakes.
There's a tree nearby that Lee is supposed to have planted.
Wonder what will happen with that.
Exactly - would all of these people saying these statutes should be left up defending leaving up statutes of lenin and stalin in the soviet union because those figures are “inextricably tied with soviet history”?
It’s all part of the glorious Fundamental Transformation of America.
It creates racial strife and racial strife is good because BLACK VOTES MATTER!!! BLACK VOTES MATTER!!! BLACK VOTES MATTER!!!
I sorta disagree with that one. Every time I see that name on a street, I know not to go down there. It’s a safety issue.
Why? It’s history. When a child looks at a statue of Robert ELee and asks “mama who is that” a mother has a chance to tell a child about a war that freed the slaves. How a country split in two and brother fought against brother in the bloodiest war this country has ever known. How holding human beings is wrong and freeing them is worth fighting for.
now we are allowing people to era e that history and those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. It’s like the Arabs tearing down the statues of Egyptian king in an attempt to erase history, or the Taliban destroying the Bamiyan Statues in Afghanistan. It’s ignorant, and it cheats future generations of a chance to grow and learn
Then let's officially erase all that history. From that day forward anyone who mentions slavery in America will be treated as a kook babbling about fairy tales. OK, Miz Clarke?
Gen Winfield Scott thought Robert E. Lee was indispensable in the Mexican War.
He was one of very few to graduate West Point without a single demerit.
Some good news, for once, in this fascist war on history.
In here to insult people, huh, n00b?
They are already there and want everyone to join them. Evil has been defeated but at times it seems otherwise.
Yes, but maybe a bit inconvenient, he chose the CSA and lead traitors in killing thousands of loyal Americans. That can never be forgiven or forgotten. Yes, make peace, but Lee is not a hero. Period.
Maybe they should rename Fort Bragg?
Interesting question and one for public discussion. Times change and we need reasoned discourse on what is acceptable and what is not and a deliberate approach. Vandalism like in Durham tonight, or violence by everyone in Charlottsville on Saturday are wrong and all parties should be identified and prosecuted.
My favorite recording of Dixie is by the West Point marching band.
Do they still play it?
Do they still play it?
I'll bet they played it whenever President Clinton visited.
That may be the conclusion that we reach in the end, but it doesn't mean that people are going to argue about the statues in the meantime.
Also, the people who put up the statues may not have thought about the Civil War in quite that way and there may still be people around who take a very different view of the Civil War and its outcome.
now we are allowing people to era e that history and those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. It’s like the Arabs tearing down the statues of Egyptian king in an attempt to erase history, or the Taliban destroying the Bamiyan Statues in Afghanistan. It’s ignorant, and it cheats future generations of a chance to grow and learn
To the extent that statues are actually being destroyed, yes. But in many cases, they're being moved. Maybe a museum will display them.
Your question is right on point. Is it rhetorical? Do you have theory?
Here's mine:
99 years ago, up to 20 years or so ago, the empirical data could be explained away by legal separation and insufficient resources.
This is no longer the case. Therefore, explanations are increasingly tendentious, and increasingly frantic. Your choices lie between the forbidden and the self-hating.
It is making white people crazy.
What about the statue of Lenin in Seattle?
If I were younger....
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