Posted on 06/24/2015 12:39:41 PM PDT by Pelham
Now is the time to talk about replacing the statue of Robert E. Lee, as iconic as it is controversial, from its perch at the center of Lee Circle, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced Wednesday (June 24) during a gathering held to highlight his racial reconciliation initiative.
"Symbols really do matter," he said. "Symbols should reflect who we really are as a people.
"We have never been a culture, in essence, that revered war rather than peace, division rather than unity."
The slaying last week of nine black people in a historic Charleston, S.C., church at the hands of Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, has sparked heated debate about whether the Confederate battle flag and other symbols associated with the country's racist past ought to be displayed in public places.
Just two days ago, Landrieu was noncommittal when asked whether the Lee statue should be removed, though he called for a larger discussion on it and other Confederate monuments in New Orleans. The 2018 Tricentennial Commission, whose tasks include addressing the city's complex racial history ahead of its 300th anniversary, would also examine the propriety of the monuments continued display on public property, the mayor's office said.
"These symbols say who we were in a particular time, but times change. Yet these symbols -- statues, monuments, street names, and more -- still influence who we are and how we are perceived by the world," a spokesman said in a statement.
"Mayor Landrieu believes it is time to look at the symbols in this city to see if they still have relevance to our future." ...
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The headlong rush to silly gestures gets sillier.
I know it’s coming anyway so I’ll mention it: someone will want to destroy Stone Mountain.
To be replaced by some kind of African hero. Mugabe?
Sounds like ISIS tearing down statues in Iraq.
The left has become our ISIS. Self appointed cultural ‘cleansers’.
Sounds like ISIS-USA at work.
We are entering the dark ages.
Nothing will save that city, nothing, not even a statue of a yellow, flooded school bus.
I cannot believe people are simply standing around while the Left (with assistance from the quivering Right)is allowed to dismantle this country, piece by piece.
Obama is destroying the country, now with assistance from Boehner, McConnell, Ryan, et. al., and now we are systematically purging the America from its history.
The typical liberal response to a tragic circumstance:
1. Blame someone.
2. Tax something.
3. Ban something.
4. Control something.
5. Eagerly await the next tragedy.
Some of us old enough to have lived with the Cold War may remember how the Soviet Union used to “purge” people from historic pictures as they fell from political favor.
We used to mock them for it. Maybe our own nomenclatura need to think about that.
Like ISIS and the Taliban destroying ancient monuments the modern Iconoclast movement has its eyes on anything Confederate.
The Left is finding a lot of GOP help with their purge.
Wait until The Left wants us to go back and change books, photos and films to reflect The New History of America. The South will be gone with the wind.
This is really starting to piss me off.
And yet rid of Joan of Arc, too. Religious maniac who probably didn’t like muslims.
Yep.
Yes they are, I think the GOP has already officially endorsed it too
Symbols do matter but if you’re a Nation that is going to be destroyed by them, that is too weak to survive with them in your presence, you deserve to wither and die,
Does this idiot know anything about Robert E. Lee? Lee headed off any talk of continued guerrilla warfare after Appomattox. More important, he worked assiduously after the war to reconcile Southerners and Northerners. Isn’t that what these left wing loonies claim they want - peace and reconciliation?
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