Posted on 09/14/2015 12:35:06 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
With that kumbayah moment at the Capitol in South Carolina, when the Battle Flag of the Confederacy was lowered forever to the cheers and tears of all, a purgation of the detestable relics of evil that permeate American public life began.
City leaders in Memphis plan to dig up the body of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is buried in a city park that once bore his name. A statue of the great cavalrymen will be removed.
“Nathan Bedford Forrest is a symbol of bigotry and racism, and those symbols have no place on public property,” said council Chairman Myron Lowery, “What we’re doing here in Memphis is no different from what’s happening across the country.” Myron’s got that right.
Panicky Democrats are terminating their tradition of Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, as both presidents were slaveholders.
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Yesterday they came for statues of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Today, they're for tearing down statues of Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson. It won't end until all such statues and monuments are replaced with monuments to the heroes of the New Left and Multiculturalism.
I’m offended by communists but half of Congress is not going to be thrown out, are they?
Can we petition to dig up Robert Byrd and have him moved to the compost pile?
the civil war was STATES RIGHTS vs FEDERAL INFRINGEMENT ON SAME
the wrong side won.......
slavery was NEVER THE ISSUE
SO since that time the Federal government has been operating UNCONSTITUTIONALLY and look at the cesspool we have today
ABORTION - STATE ISSUE
WELFARE- STATE ISSUE
SODOMITE MARRIAGE - STATE ISSUE
DEATH SENTENCE - STATE ISSUE
on and on and on
I’m not endorsing it but it appears that the only way you can get things accomplished in your favor is to physically protest and maybe even burn something, just sayin.
Maybe that's why the Left wants to replace either Jackson or Hamilton on the $20 or $10 with some PC heroine. They know that nobody will burn $10 or $20 bills no matter how much they oppose the issue.
Lie.
How about we just take his name off of all the buildings that have been named after him. That should be job secuity for some people, since just about everything in the state was named after him.
Lie.
He is not even dead, he posts here on FR all the time.
Its the same discussion I had with Chapel Hill, when they wanted to rename the main road to be Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. I got them to plausibly consider in a town hall meeting that perhaps all other streets could in fact be determined to be racist, and that the only solution was to name every street Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. Some of them took me seriously, and I’m still surprised that there are other road names allowable in Chapel Hill.
Explorers like Columbus who conquered the indigenous peoples. Slave owners from 1619 to 1865. Statesmen, military leaders and all associated with the Confederacy. All involved in the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Native-Americans, like Gens. William Sherman and Phil Sheridan who said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian,” and acted on that maxim.
Lastly, segregationists. There is a move afoot to take the name of Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia, an opponent of civil rights laws, off the Senate Office Building to which it has been affixed for 40 years.
Not really sure Calhoun and Taney are the same as Columbus and Henry Hudson or Washington and James Madison. Or that people who are primarily famous as segregationists really count among "America's Heroes."
I'd keep Russell's name on the office building, since he was a distinguished senator, but I don't think anybody was ever going to propose making his birthday a national holiday.
All this has already happened to the Puritans, though. When was the last time you heard a good word about them (especially from some of the people who are complaining the loudest now)?
Yeah, we need a statue of that Mike Brown thug bastid from Ferguson.
He was a good boy, dindu nuffin. Helped little old ladies cross the street.
Consider that graphic stolen :)
Well, we can always use our own terms for the new currency. For example: “How much is this?” “Two bitches and a grifter” (Two $20s featuring Margaret Sanger and a $5 featuring Al Sharpton)
Exactly which states rights did the Buchanan Administration violate so badly that secession was the only answer.
Calhoun isn't in the same league of importance as America's founders, but he's a sufficiently significant figure in history to be honored in his native South Carolina. You don't have to agree with his ideology or with the Confederate cause to recognize the Orwellian nature of erasing his memory to make way for multiculturalist icons. As I said, the multiculturalists go after the easy targets (e.g. less universally revered names like Calhoun) first as a dress-rehearsal for erasing the memory of (or the rewriting of) ALL pre-PC US history.
So when someone agitates to change the name of Lake Calhoun to Lake Trayvon Martin, it won't be long until they do the same thing to the Washington monument.
Better still, they can print currency with the portraits of Al Sharpton, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin for exclusive black market use in the inner city. Think of it as a hard copy, hood version of bitcoin.
Good idea! They need to do something to replace the welfare scrip that they replaced with EBT cards...
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