Posted on 09/15/2017 12:32:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
No need to apologize. Hope your wife is feeling better.
I’m a black man whose white ancestor served with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Does the Dallas City Council think they speak for me?
Well, they don’t. I think what they did is despicable.
The city “hearing” was a sham. The mayor had planned to remove it, saying he had to in a later interview with Mark Davis it was necessary to quell the mob.
It is immoral to surrender to the mob, because it empowers them to make more demands.
Dallas is a liberal city plopped in the prairie. Neighboring Fort Worth is the ONLY major urban county to vote conservative last election.
Civil War is blooming, brought on in large part by leftist sanctuary city states across the nation.
I wish these folks would read a little American History before making such dumb moves. Such as this:
Your history lesson for the day
Robert E Lee was married to George Washington’s granddaughter. He worked with Grant during the Mexican-American war and became ...a decorated war hero defending this country He believed slavery was a great evil and his wife broke the law by teaching slaves to read and write. After the civil war he worked with Andrew Johnson’s program of reconstruction. He became very popular with the northern states and the Barracks at West Point were named in his honor in 1962. He was a great man who served this country his entire life in some form or other. His memorial is now being called a blight. No American military veteran should be treated as such. People keep yelling, “You can’t change history.” Sadly you can. This is no better than book burnings. ISIS tried rewriting history by destroying historical artifacts. Is that really who we want to emulate?
As they tear down this “blight” keep these few historical facts in your mind. No military veteran and highly decorated war hero should ever be treated as such. This is not Iraq and that is not a statue of Sadam.
IN ADDITION:: Lee was also very torn about the prospect of the South leaving the Union. His wife’s grandfather George Washington was a huge influence on him. He believed that ultimately, states rights trumped the federal government and chose to lead the Southern army. His estate, Arlington, near Washington DC was his home and while away fighting the war, the federal government demanded that Lee himself pay his taxes in person. He sent his wife but the money was not accepted from a woman. When he could not pay the taxes, the government began burying dead Union soldiers on his land. The government is still burying people there today. It is now called Arlington National Cemetery. DO THEY WANT TO TEAR THAT UP ALSO ??
If they’d just replaced the plague with one that says he is the ESPN Lee, would they still have taken it down?
Too many Kalifornicans and Somalis have moved to Dallas. It’s no longer the Lone Star State.
The Leftist are not smart, if they were, they would consider carefully for what they wish.
If the brought a war, they would loose badly.
Blinded by arrogance and power from identity politics. Unfortunately, it won’t just affect them.
I have the same memories of Chicago in an earlier life. Chicago was over about 35 years ago but I dont know when Dallas croaked.
So true, it's all an act!
Dallas croaked c. 2000.
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