isn't this the place with the statue of LENIN???
Posted on 07/12/2015 6:27:59 PM PDT by llevrok
SEATTLE - A Confederate monument in Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery is in the spotlight as a local group calls for its removal.
For more than a century, Lake View Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Seattle's pioneers.
Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families.
"Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive."
LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle City leaders to have the 89-year-old United Confederate Veterans Memorial taken down.
"To me this is the most racist monument in the Northwest," says LaFevere.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal is out of his hands.
"Private property is private property," Murray tells KOMO News. "I support the First Amendment. I don't want it there, I don't like it, but I also don't believe it's the roll of government to tell people what to do with their private property."
Created and funded by the Washington state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926, the monument includes the "Stars and Bars" battle flag.
The memorial has been vandalized repeatedly over the years, most recently defaced by graffiti following the racially-motivated Charleston Church shootings.
"I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that."
Let's be fair.
WA state liberal nut case Ping
Get rid of that Lenin statue as well.
Seattle, yep, its gone. They will dig up Confederate graves too if any vets died there.
isn't this the place with the statue of LENIN???
These days, I’d wish for Nelson’s Pillar to be re-erected in the center of Dublin, Ireland.
A: Seattle even has a Confederate Monument.
B: It has survived the 60's and 70's to this day
C: The Idiot who said this "I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that." Is allowed to breed! >:(
If they try any of that crap here in Texas armed militia willbe called to surround the monuments. Attempts at removal may result in bullet wounds.
Around Richmond we got thousands of dead Yankees to dig up and no shortage of backhoes.
Good point.
Yes, Seattle's Freemont neighborhood has had a long standing statue of Lenin. But Vlad offered one way trips to Soviet ski country for a little R&R. So that's OK.
Commies and Nazis wiping out AMERICAN history. Someday, AMERICANS will be sorry.
Ya, I can see a hunk of granite intimidating someone. Bunch of whiny libs.
Typical moron Liberal. If anyone is offended it can't happen.
All reminents of the confederacy must be committed to the ash heap of history. Let’s start with the Democratic Party.
To avoid the unpleasantness of Reconstruction, thousands of Rebs moved west. I can believe it.
People are responsible to manage their own emotional content.
I swear these libs were not hugged enough...that have such anger and resentment. That has to cut the lifespan a good 10-20 years. Never in a million years would I think these things would be happening in a free society.
IIRC charlette lefevre had a website about haunted Seattle or something.....
Also interviewed friends of Stanley Ann dunham....
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