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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-PJ
True.
More important, he worked assiduously after the war to reconcile Southerners and Northerners.
Well, he didn't promote continued hatred between the sections. And he did encourage patience and reconciliation, rather than hot-headed rebellion.
But he did keep his distance from Northerners. That's understandable given all that happened, but it's true that he wasn't any kind of activist working energetically for reconciliation. It's more what he didn't do, than what he did that was important.
Yep!
As usual with the left and the left in the GOP...symbolism over substance.
And the Confederate THEY created.
Very likely and that emphasizes why any movement to oppose the Left, and the government (but I repeat myself) must be on a mass scale. The genus of Obama, as the great divider, is that he has fractionated the American populace and millions would have to come together to stop what he and the Left are doing to the US.
I know you are pleased with current events.
“Inspect your guns, Gentlemen! Another civil war is being thrust upon us.”
Never happen.
The Republicans are leading the charge so it’s bipartisan.
This is the last psychological blow of reconstruction. Meant to isolate white southern males and psychologically geld them.
The southern Republican politicians want this issue to go away so they’re taking the lead.
Remember the GOP is the lesser of two evils.
I can’t badmouth Jean LaFitte, one of my ancestors sailed with him. Plus they brought the cannons to the Battle of New Orleans!
I think that’s when the shootin starts
I went to grade school in Arlington, VA. Every so often we would have a field trip to Arlington cemetery that would include a visit to the Custis-Lee mansion.
My third grade year, must have been 1959, we went there one morning. Back at school that afternoon a few of us were walking back to class and the black janitor, must have been in his 60s, spoke to us: “Did you little kids go to the Custis-Lee house today?” We said “yeah” and he said “My momma worked there when she was a little girl. She helped Mrs Robert E Lee.”
He was proud of his connection to history. I was impressed enough that I still remember it, he was a living connection to the Civil War. This was before the PC gestapo had showed up to spread their bile throughout American life. I’ll bet that old janitor’s family keeps that family story to themselves these days.
And I doubt millions will come together. This purging of the South, supposedly over a flag, is the beginning of the end.
Sadly, Obama voters who love the Confederate flag will support what’s being done. Democrats who own guns will support Obama when he signs an EO taking them away.
Which reminds me. Would the Emancipation Proclamation fall under the category of Executive Order?
In today’s America, almost anything could be an Obama Executive Action. Who is going to stop him? Not the Potemkin Village opposition which is not even bothering to hide their complicity anymore with tearing down the country.
Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order?
It was a Presidential proclamation and, in essence, an executive order.
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