Posted on 06/24/2015 9:00:43 PM PDT by massmike
The debate over removing Confederate symbols from public grounds is heating up on a major college campus in Texas.
As Austin American-Statesman reporter Ralph Haurwitz points out, someone tagged "black lives matter" in graffiti across three statues of Confederate leaders on the UT-Austin campus.
Pressure is building in the state to remove the statues at UT-Austin. A Change.org petition has garnered thousands of signatures, and on Tuesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) and Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush to take the statues down.
The school is debating whether to remove the statues. According to the Texas Tribune, UT Austin President Greg Fenves met with students on Monday to discuss the issue.
A UT-Austin spokesperson told Business Insider that the graffiti was quickly removed.
This isn't the first time that the statues have been vandalized. According to the UT-Austin spokesperson, there have been at least three instances of vandalism on the Jefferson Davis statue in the past several years. As the Texas Tribune notes, in April someone tagged "Davis Must Fall" on the statue.
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I’m waiting to see the liberals stand upand demand that Robert Byrd’s name be removed from every building and bridge in West Virginia, that LBJ be removed from everything in Texasa, that the William Fulbright Scholarship program has his name dropped but is now given only to black students and Woodrow Wilson who promoted Jim Crow laws be removed from the White HOuse portrait gallery.
“Deport La Raza Joaquin Castro to Mexico.”
How is it possible that a man named Castro can be elected to any political post in the USA? Would anyone vote for a Goebbels, a Goering or a Yamamoto???
Sure, if they had a (D) behind their name.
Sure, if they had a (D) behind their name.
Oh. You've been to Massachusetts,I see........
Looks like the K began as an H.
I was thinking the same thing today. And don’t forget about FDR locking up the Japs. Oh, wait.....yellow lives don’t matter that much.
Could it be there was a reason that FDR did this?
He started to do it to German-Americans but thought better of it.
Reminds me of the furor over Joe Paterno’s statue.
Savages.
Americans voted for a Hussein Obama while still in a war against a Hussein and an Osama.
Here comes the Goose Steppers!!!! Amazing how history is repeating itself soo soon!! Welcome to the “New Reich”.
Wasn’t Jeff Davis a tranny, captured while wearing a dress? That would make for an interesting statue.
Dhimmicrats don’t care - as long as they have a (D) after their name.
There will be a limit. I am not sure where that limit is, but there damn sure is a limit.
I am a large man and I don’t yield to much pushing. ;>)
ISIS and Al Qaeda actions.
No. When taken prisoner, his wife, concerned for his health, hurriedly put a shawl on him, or something like that. The Northern news media, much like our media today, made a propaganda field day out of it, and turned Davis’ attire into a dress.
Of course there was, and I think it was the right thing to do under the circumstances at that time. I just meant to illuminate the hypocrisy of the left.
So Political Correctness de joure is the new standard of what historical monuments will be allowed? I think we owe an appology to the Taliban and ISIS for condemning their destruction of archaeological relics that they found offensive.
Are you ok? Lot’s of errors in this post. Not like you.
nopardons, the vast majority of blacks do all those things you suggested at the end. I accept there is a disproportionate number amongst their ranks, who commit violent crimes. But still, they are the minority amongst blacks. Surely you would agree...
The fix is simple. Close the revolving door.
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