Posted on 08/21/2017 9:55:39 AM PDT by Cheerio
The left-wing campaign to pull down Confederate monuments has gone pop, as more than 10,000 people have signed a petition to replace the Confederate monument in Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia, with a statue of rapper Missy Elliott.
The author of the petition, Nathan Coflin, says Elliott encapsulates the culture and spirit of the city.
From Breitbart:
Hailing from humble beginnings as the only child of a power company dispatcher and a welder at Portsmouths lauded naval shipyard, she rose to become a platinum recording artists with over 30 million albums sold. All this without even once owning a slave, the petition reads. Together we can put white supremacy down, flip it and reverse it.
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Missy Who?
If they insist on taking down confederate memorials, then its time to consider removing the MLK memorial.
soap-in-my-mouth for what I have to say.
It is real, honest to goodness Idiocracy!
Next we’ll be watering crops with Mountain Dew!
In this Nation one does not have to actually own slaves to have them. One merely has to apply for welfare.
Rappers? no. Al sharpton. louie farrakhan. kaepernick. People who hate this country while raking in the millions of dollars for their hate.
Statues of all the rappers who have died young and violently - if there are enough Confederate statue pedestals...
Like someone else posted here, I do not believe RAP is actually music.
Wil Missy’s statue have a shaved chocha?
Will the ghetto skank profanity of her “ Work It” lyrics be inscribed on the base?
Just sose more young black women will be inspired to become rocket scientists...,since the rap culture has lifted so many out of poverty
That leaves me misty eyed
Do I detect a new state anthem for Virginia here?
Making the Pigeons even happier
Communism says destroy their heroes and replace their art with trash.
Dictator Robert Mucabe says no prosecution for murdering Whitey.
Why not Kim’s a$$ while at it! It is so perfect compared to our evil confederates!
Mark my words, the South was fine, but impose on them a League of anation style humiliation like to Germany and things will wax.
Almost like it is a ploy to break up America. It will require us a confederacy.
Idiocracy.
This stuff is just getting weirder by the day.
I want to see a statue of Buckwheat!
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