Undeterred, U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues

Reuters ^ | August 15, 2017 | by Chris Kenning

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Undeterred by the violence over the planned removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, municipal leaders in cities across the United States said they would step up efforts to pull such monuments from public spaces.

The mayors of Baltimore and Lexington, Kentucky, said they would push ahead with plans to remove statues caught up in a renewed national debate over whether monuments to the U.S. Civil War's pro-slavery Confederacy are symbols of heritage or hate.

Officials in Memphis, Tennessee, and Jacksonville, Florida, announced new initiatives on Monday aimed at taking down Confederate monuments. And Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, a Republican, urged lawmakers to rid the state's Capitol of a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and early member of the Ku Klux Klan.

"This is a time to stand up and speak out," Lexington Mayor Jim Gray said in an interview on Monday. He had moved up the announcement of his city's efforts after the Charlottesville violence.

[redcatcherb412]

“”But did u notice at Durham, it was all (save for a couple) whites doing the damage?””

The white guilt in college towns and urban diverse enclaves is strong. These whites BLM masters that get these fools to do their bidding will eventually convince these white lemmings the world will be better off without them and the fools will drink the BLM 'jim jones' koolaid to prove to BLM that their white guilt atones for the perceived past sins of history. A history they know nothing about. BLM stands in the shadows yucking it up watching their white subjects do their bidding.

[Moonman62]

The lack of Confederate statues has worked out so well for Philadelphia, Oakland and Chicago. Those places are havens of racial harmony.

[Carthego delenda est]

Who would’ve ever believed the Workers World Party would be given free reign to proudly vandalize and destroy our nation’s monuments, while they openly profess support of other nation’s dictators, some who want to nuke us, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-un, and Nicolás Maduro.

[onyx]

In my advancing age, I hope I don't go off my rocker to the point where I decide I'm so damn offended by all the tributes to (statues) of Juan Cabrillo and Father Junipero Serra that I go on an old lady wrecking spree! Lord have mercy!

[ek_hornbeck]

Anyone who objects to this erasure of history will be painted as a racist white supremacist.

What angers me the most are the establishment Republicans who are so desperate to stay in the liberal elites' good graces that they not only refuse to speak up, but in some cases (e.g. airhead and multiculturalism advocate Nikki Haley) side with the Left in tearing down these monuments and helping the Left erase American history. Either they're too stupid to realize that Confederate statues are just the beginning, or they're aware of the Orwellian program and simply don't care.

[TheNext]

I’ll take a statue for the front yard.

This could be a movement. You know those statue stores. Sell a bunch of Confederate statues with an internet camera to protect them.

[rockrr]

This could be a movement. You know those statue stores. Sell a bunch of Confederate statues with an M60 to protect them.

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