Posted on 05/29/2017 8:11:27 PM PDT by TigerClaws
HOUSTON - The Sam Houston statue has been at Hermann Park since 1925, but a group that calls itself Texas Antifa has started a campaign to take down this and any other landmark that bears the name Sam Houston.
The statue has been a site to see for nearly a century and for some people, it's a site they want to see for years to come. More News Headlines
Sam Houston statue in Hermann Park causing controversy
"Honestly, I think they should keep it up. Yeah," Nicole Nelson said.
But Texas Antifa group members want the Sam Houston statue gone.
On Thursday, the group posted on its Facebook page saying, "Texans agree the disgusting idols of America's dark days of slavery must be removed to bring internal peace to our country."
The group also suggested Mayor Sylvester Turner should back the removal of the statue, because of his ethnicity and political affiliation.
When Turner was asked if he should be in favor of the statue’s removal, he said the thought hadn’t even crossed his mind.
“It's not even on my agenda. I haven't even given it any thought," Turner said.
Nelson said even though Sam Houston owned 12 slaves, he wasn’t a “hardcore advocate” for slavery.
When Sam Houston was a senator in the 1800s, he repeatedly voted against the spread of slavery to new territories of the United States. He was also ousted as governor of Texas for refusing to align himself with the Confederacy.
"It might alleviate some, some anger but it'll also create some anger on the opposite side that you're taking down a statue of a man who helped create the state and what it is today," Paul Stykitus, resident of Houston, said.
Texas Antifa told KPRC 2 it wouldn't speak about the statue until the rally here on June 10 and said, "We don't speak with the fascist media."
Antifa also alluded to a partnership with Black Lives Matter.
Ashton Woods, with BLM Houston told KPRC 2 while they are in favor of removing symbols of the Confederacy, they are not affiliated with this group.
"We were not invited, and had no part in planning their event on June 10. It should be noted that any events by BLM Houston are posted to our Facebook page," Woods said.
The New Orleans group now wants Andrew Jackson's statue taken down, Joan of Arc, and wants buildings renamed.
Alabama legislature passed a law to prevent its mayors from doing this to pander to whatever group backing erasing our history.
"First they came for the Confederate statues and I said nothing..."
Next logical step is to rename to city. Eventually all cities will be named after PC figures.
Just wait until they go after Mt. Rushmore.
well, there's the truth, right there of how they feel. And I'm betting the 'antifa' are more 'foreign nationals' than anything else.
My thought was that they’ll next want to remove books from libraries.
They want to wipe out history, without any notion of what the blowback of that will be.
That's exactly why I opposed this from the get-go.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Folks, if you’re not thinking South Africa, you better damn well get up to speed here.
We need to start pushing back against these interlopers.
I thought renaming places would be beyond the PC warriors, in my lifetime.
Think again.
How long before San Francisco is no more? Perhaps “Pacific Bay City” or similar. It’s coming.
This group of malcontent losers will never be satisfied. They will eventually have to be dealt with.
It was done years ago here in King County, Washington.
We used to be named after a Vice President. Now we are named after Martin Luther King. Of course all the signs, stationary, etc. had to be changed. It used to have a crown - now it has King’s head (profile) on everything.
Pot...kettle...black...
This is what ANTIFA did today in ‘honor’ of Memorial Day:
https://twitter.com/officialantifa?lang=en
This is a domestic terrorist organization and should be designated as such.
Maybe they could change it to Houston - after black jazz musician Joe Houston, born in Texas.
Or change it to Houston, in memory of Whitney Houston?
And yet Robert Byrd’s name is still etched into half of West Virginia
They are violent, anti-American racists. Antifa should be marginalized, not obeyed. This mayor should tell them to take a flying leap.
We’re going to end up killing these bastards.
Soon enough, they’ll want to demolish the Washington Monument. After renaming the Capital, of course.
Way back in the 50s when I was a lad, I had a social studies book that predicted this very thing if the Communists/Atheists took over. Virtually all of the California cities would have to be renamed since they are named after saints or Queen of the Angels, etc. Of course this was presented as something that would be absurd, yet I have lived to see it become to pass.
Hey, that was gonna be my comment... Good one Tiger - beat me to it.
That twitter feed looks like a spoof. Pretty sure it’s not real antifa.
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