https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Duke
It is known that Duke owned one enslaved person, named Caroline, whom he purchased for $601, and had hired out the labor of an enslaved person from his neighbors to work on his farm.
He enlisted in the Confederate navy, and served in Charleston, SC, and Richmond, VA, until his capture by Union forces in April 1865.
In appreciation, Trinity College changed their name to Duke University, in honor of Washington Duke, who had been a supporter of Trinity for decades. Today, a statue of Washington Duke sits on the university's East Campus, watching over the school he had supported for so many years.
If people vandalized a contentious monument to homofascism would liberals likewise remove it?
Say the Stonewall plaque?
“I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Price said.
Well, Dean Price I reckon we are seeing your schools values.
Another statue of a Democrat removed.
And always the media fails to report the political party that Lee belonged to - when it’s the Democrat Party.
Duke university should be protested!
Duke was a tobacco mogul and fought on the Confederate side.
Tobacco killed more people than all wars combine and all wars to be.
Duke university must be shut down. !
(*sarcasm off )
Appeasement will get Duke more demands, and there will always be more demands.
Like a 30 minute episode of The Twilight Zone hosted by Jack Webb
Red Nightmare(1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgR4apcz_Ew
B/W 1962 with Jack Kelly, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Brown, Robert Conrad and Andrew Duggan. Jerry Donovan is a small town American who takes his civil liberties for granted. One night, Jerry dreams that his community has been taken over by communists. His friends and family quickly turn against him leading to his arrest and conviction for “subversive” activities. Upon awakening, Jerry has a new appreciation for America’s freedoms and resolves to shoulder a greater portion of his civic responsibilities.
Skip ahead to 9:15 when he wakes up to the “new reality”. Children indoctrinated by the State against the parents’ values and the family unit. Churches turned into secular museums...
Pigeons everywhere are having nervous breakdowns
The statue wasn’t contentious until some crybaby decided to make an issue of it.
There it stood for YEARS and nobody had a problem with it until now. When those who want to control everything decided to try to control everything.
Well they need to take it down as well. That would be funny as hell.Commies.
Just want it on the record that I am happy to house these monuments to bigotry and hate on my family farm; hidden away from anyone who may faint at the obvious hate-mongering idolatry that they represent.
Just tell me where/when to come pick it up. I’m waiting and ready.
(These are gonna look AWESOME in my side yard.)
Time to replace their mortarboards with pussy hats.
First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.~Pastor Martin Niemöller
Community and individuality are not opposites. People cannot survive on their own. When the odds are stacked against you, you must rally with the oppressed and hated.
When a growing oppressive regime is taking hold, you must act, otherwise you will soon face your enemy alone and hopeless.
Strength of community is a strength as much as individualism, as long you are willing to face weaknesses in your own community. Ignoring slacking values will mean that you will be rallied against by those you oppress.
Niemöller affirms we must rally against unhealthy organized regimes. We must also stay vigilant with those that appear to be good natured, as all organisation attracts corruption. Niemöller also warns us that if it is you who are corrupt, then you will face a stronger combined force of foe!
~Vexen Crabtree
I wonder when the Statue of John Wayne at the OC Airport will feel the wrath of the Left?
I recall he played a ex Confederate Soldier in a couple of Movies, Rooster Cogburn and the Searchers I think.
Clint Eastwood did in The Outlaw Josie Wales, but I don’t think there is a Statue of him anywhere though.
What about the Nifong statue?
It is time to sue Duke University because Confederate soldiers are American Veterans by various Acts of Congress:
And now the snowflakes at Duke can grab their “bankies” and go “ni-ni” because all is good.
The new Duke University President Vincent Price only recently came into office, replacing the notorious former President Richard Brodhead who helped blow up Duke’s credibility over the fraudulent charges of rape against the Duke Lacrosse team back in 2006. Brodhead should have been fired after that fiasco — but no, he served on until he was ready to go. Another 11 years of shame heaped on Duke University for retaining this gelded coward at the helm.
When the charges were made 11 years ago, Brodhead canceled the rest of the Lacrosse season and the coach was forced to resign. Broadhead expressed sympathy with the extremist views of the Gang of 88 in the faculty who proclaimed the guilt of the members of the lacrosse team against false accusations of rape, with no evidence.Brodhead did nothing to tamp down hostilities on the campus. A substantial payout was made in the lawsuit brought by former players, which Broadhead approved and kept secret. The board of directors continued to support him in spite of his clear failure to show impartiality and to try to get at the truth of what happened.
In the footshopts of the calamities of President Brochead, this new President has already failed in the most important test he has faced to date. Vincent Price should be forced to resign. The problem is that the board at Duke is filled with wealthy leftists who see no problem with this.
If Duke’s future is ever to be salvaged, the board should resign, too, and new members appointed who fervently believed in academic freedom and free speech.
Until there is a clean sweep, the stain of corruption will waft over the campus and it will continue to be a desert for academic freedom, free speech, and free inquiry and a blot on the name of fundamental human fairness and justice.