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Richmond mayor wants Confederate statues on Monument Avenue removed
Fox News ^ | August 16, 2017 | Alex Papas

Posted on 08/26/2017 6:05:47 AM PDT by C19fan

The mayor of Richmond, Virginia on Wednesday said he wants to see the removal of Confederate statues on the city’s famous avenue of monuments. He added, “These monuments should be part of our dark past and not of our bright future. I personally believe they are offensive and need to be removed.”

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: confederate; dixie; iconoclasm; purge; richmondva; virginia
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To: Liz

Good morning.

I tell you this every year or so: You do good work.

5.56mm


21 posted on 08/26/2017 6:20:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: C19fan

Time for the Richmond Mayor to be afraid to answer the door, drive his car, or be seen outside.
Really.
Nothing else works for leftists.


22 posted on 08/26/2017 6:21:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: M Kehoe

LOL.....so if you did that more often....I wouldn’t mind, at all.


23 posted on 08/26/2017 6:23:53 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: C19fan

Levar Stoney - democrat - Mayor of Richmond.

Close mayor’s race - next time park your guilt and vote Republican...


24 posted on 08/26/2017 6:24:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking is starting...)
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To: raccoonradio
The White House of the Confederacy has been designated a National Historic Landmark In addition to its historic interest as the seat of the Confederacy during the Civil War, the home and attached museum rank as the most outstanding repository of Confederate memorabilia in the United States.

So how much voter fraud was used to get this smirking creep elected Mayor there?

25 posted on 08/26/2017 6:28:44 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: RetiredArmy

The American people are against mob rule...

Most whites - over 70% - and well over 40% of Blacks and Hispanics are against tearing down statues too. Once again white liberal elite thugs have over played their hand...


26 posted on 08/26/2017 6:30:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking is starting...)
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To: CondorFlight; C19fan

Right out of “1984”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten,  every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”...George Orwell, “1984”


27 posted on 08/26/2017 6:33:14 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: RetiredArmy
What’s next? The WWII Memorial, the Marine Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Wall, Lincoln’s Memorial, Jefferson’s Memorial, Grant’s Tomb, maybe even plow under Arlington Cemetery. These ass holes will turn this nation into another Soviet Union, North Korea, Nazi Germany, Iran, etc. before long.

How about a Soviet-style compromise, where Confederate soldiers are buried, dig them up and re-bury them face down?

28 posted on 08/26/2017 6:33:33 AM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes

William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ‘round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!


Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You’d be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.

Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?

Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.


29 posted on 08/26/2017 6:37:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (Statues today - books tomorrow - the unmasking is starting...)
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To: Does so

...What’s next? The WWII Memorial, the Marine Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Wall, Lincoln’s Memorial, Jefferson’s Memorial, Grant’s Tomb...

And in today’s climate of psychopathic democrats, DeBlasio said at a press conference that he would consider removing
Grant’s Tomb. This is not /s.


30 posted on 08/26/2017 6:38:50 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Robert DeLong

It’s unfair to tear down only white statues. There should be a proportional racial quota of “offensive” statues. Arthur Ashe? I mean, c’mon. How many infants and small children have died from AIDS? If every Confederate is a bad guy, then so should every adult carrier of HIV

It’s only fair. And inclusive too.


31 posted on 08/26/2017 6:40:50 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee")
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To: Liz

Terry McAuliffe must be wetting his panties to think that this cheese eater is threatening to dump on his utopia by taking down his statuary and splitting the vote in his reelection. I think the Klan members of his party would like to string this guy up on the tallest tree in town.


32 posted on 08/26/2017 6:49:20 AM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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To: Robert DeLong

I wonder how long those statues have bothered him and he never said anything?

Like most folks... he probably never gave it a thought till Charlottesville...


33 posted on 08/26/2017 6:50:27 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: batterycommander

lavar is typical of people elected by voters who are either (a) ignorant racists and/or (b) guilty wimps. He does affirmative-action proud.


34 posted on 08/26/2017 6:52:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Robert DeLong

Why am I not surprised?


35 posted on 08/26/2017 6:52:11 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: C19fan

I think its past time that the democraps were punished for their insanity at the ballot box.


36 posted on 08/26/2017 6:52:13 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: C19fan

Pretty obvious to me what needs to be removed here. It’s not really a “what”,but a “who” & there is more than one.


37 posted on 08/26/2017 6:53:02 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Liz

wonder where I can get an old fashion lawn jockey?


38 posted on 08/26/2017 6:53:55 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: Steely Tom

They are next. Then the Constitution and Declaration of Independence will be shredded. All “offensive” books, clothing, haircuts, tattoos, paintings, documents, guns etc must be destroyed. Any persons with incorrect thoughts will be sent to re-education camps. Any dissension will be dealt with swiftly and harshly.


39 posted on 08/26/2017 6:56:23 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Steely Tom
Constitution has been gone for a long time now.

It has been replaced by the MSM propaganda machine.

40 posted on 08/26/2017 6:56:38 AM PDT by Bogie
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