Posted on 08/14/2017 2:18:10 PM PDT by Drew68
Or are we glossing over that part?
FWIW, I'm not inclined to do that.
Well if you are going to go that route, than so was George Washington and the other founders. The only difference between them and the Confederates is that Mad King George III decided to stop the bloodshed after he had lost 15,000 men.
King Lincoln kept the carnage going until 750,000 people had been killed and the South had been turned into a massive starving wasteland.
Yes, and he resumed his loyalty to the United Kingdom.
Fools. Just like Isis and Alquaeida sp?
Erase historicAL icons so no one knows the history of the past or its progress or regress.
Both can happen.
More rewriting of history.
And how exactly do you know she’s a new transplant?
They already changed the names of Robert E Lee High school...and Forrest High ( named for Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest)here in Jacksonville. Guess that’s not enough...People who forget the past are bound to repeat it...we are so close to Civil War 2 its almost unbelievable!
Blow up Gettysburg. Of course the people who make a living off it won’t be too happy. But if it saves one snowflake will be worth it
Blow up Gettysburg. Of course the people who make a living off it won’t be too happy. But if it saves one snowflake will be worth it
Nope
The way I view it the solders had little choice - they fought honorably and I don’t hold it against them. It’s the politicians that I consider traitors - namely jeff davis.
Let’s destroy all American history - it’s gonna ‘trigger’ something in ‘the black community’.... maybe our success makes they feel ‘inferior’... Maybe our music reminds them their music wasn’t ‘first’ for years and years.
And not just Southern Civil War remnants - destroy all the Northern Statues too. Anything that reminds ‘the black community’ of slavery needs to be destroyed. Plantation homes in the South that survived? Tear ‘em down. Whatever it takes...Street Names? Change em. Books about the civil war? Burn ‘em. Black Americans are a bottomless pit of resentment. The most unpleasant minority group in the history of the United States.
Our country lost more citizens to the Civil War than to all the wars combined.. We died to end slavery. But that’s not enough for the black community. Nope, nothing is ‘enough’ for them... they wallow in their grievances... ginned on by the white liberal elites they prop up.
“President Anna Brosche said. “I’d like to make sure that we can appreciate the history and heritage of what these memorials, monuments and markers mean to city of Jacksonville.”
No. No, she doesn’t want that, at all. She wants to strip away the history of this nation, distill it down to the elements that support her silly BS logic, and protects the delicate sensibilities of the snowflakes that she and those like her have dumbed down to the lowest common denominator of logic imaginable.
ISIS would be so proud.
And how exactly do you know she’s a new transplant?
Apparently, she isn’t a recent arrival but has no family roots to the area. But a lot of the folks pushing this stuff are noobs. There is massive growth at the moment in the Jax metro area. It will be completely unrecognizable in a decade, IMO. Just another Florida megalopolis with little connection to it’s southern heritage.
If they are to be relocated, I recommend the new location be far enough from the probable hypocenter of any urban area so that in the event a sinister force creates a peak over pressure of 2 psi or more, the memorial will remain intact. After such an event - and a couple of hostile nations are now promising many such events - the remaining populations will need heroic symbols to inspire them.
Yep. It's growing in every direction. Additionally, there's a lot of military transplants like myself who bought dirt cheap homes out here and decided to stay.
Get rid of the MLK, Jr. monuments, too.
They offend people, too.
Your statement is an important one.
I've been watching this phenomenon since the Charlotte shootings (or better said as a consequence of the Charlotte shootings). I've said all along that it should best be responded to as a local issue - that beyond having a right to express an opinion, it really was none of my business. The last thing we needed was an agitator like Øbongo stirring the pot. Well, he weighed in and things have only gotten worse.
The decision best belongs to the residents of the community. It's their community and their choice on how they want it to look. This should rightly be a test of the power brokers of these communities.
I've been surprised at the lack of resolve by local movers and shakers. Do we interpret that as a change of sentiment? Is it a lack of will? Are they conceding to political correctness? I don't have those answers, but I do have my suspicions.
And I do know one thing for certain - if they acquiesce to the stormfront crowd they are gonna lose everything.
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