Posted on 06/10/2020 5:30:57 AM PDT by C19fan
In last week's memorial service for George Floyd, the Rev. Al Sharpton noted that the recent demonstrations against abusive policing were caused not just by Floyd's death after a white officer kneeled on his throat. Instead, it was the last straw after centuries of oppression. Mr. Sharpton noted, "Because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of being is you kept your knee on our neck."
One weapon to suppress African Americans: monuments to white supremacists. Soon after the Civil War, Southern whites began reasserting their dominance. During the following 80 years of Jim Crow segregation, their methods included glorifying confederate leaders.
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As in Germany, all Confederate monuments should be removed
I guess that would include markers and monuments on Civil War battlefield sites.
There is a nicely-kept Cemetary in Normandy for the German soldiers who fell during the Normandy Invasion.
Let’s destroy all slave holding native American sites as well then
It was southern Democrats who kept asserting their dominance.
The Klan was founded by Democrats. Republicans were a prime target of the Ku Klux Klan.
Now they are comparing the South to Nazis? And you guys aren’t doing anything? Stop it now. Stop the statues coming down. Stop the flags coming down. Stop southern history from being erased. You guys are always talking about your guns on here.
you don’t have to go with them in your hand but you can go with them on you and just show up
I just showing up can stop things from happening. God knows it’s making things happen for the other side
The name Cortez comes from a conqueror.
When the hell is AOC going to change her name?
Renounce.
Repent.
Resign!!!
Ah, the 1619 meme.
Nikki Haley let this cat out of the bag and it’s only gotten worse.
Everyone said the Nazis fled to South America after the war.
Maybe they’re confused as to what “south” America actually is.
OOOOOOOHHHhhhh, Atlanta loves it’s Stone Mountain. Only an outsider would write that.
Keep the Confederate monuments and add Union monuments. Every Statue of Lee should have a statue of Grant accepting Lee’s surrender alongside it.
Is she the one who started it? They are trying to erase southern history and now you’re peeing history in general. Painting black lives matter everywhere? It’s time to step up. I will be protesting where they are going to paint it where I live. And if it’s anywhere near me I will lay down in the street.
They will not stop with the confederate monuments. They will next go after the Founding Fathers.
Throughout history MOST slave masters were blacks. It is STILL going on today in Muslim countries.
History ebbs and flows. One group is on top, then they are on the bottom. If every group that makes it to the top wiped out all the history of the people who had lost power, then we wouldn’t have much history at all. And those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it.
The MLK memorial was made in communist China, wasn’t it? The PRC with a human rights record that makes most of the rest of the world look saintly... what were the stonecarvers paid per hour for the silicosis risk?
Racism is your inheritance AOC.
Bit by bit they are slowly working their way to the destruction of Mt Rushmore.
I guess they’ll go through Gettysburg as well?
This is the Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward . Take your pick. Come to the United States of America. Our Red Guards are BLM [Black Lives Matter].
Rewriting your own history doesn’t work. Stalin did it and put the Russian people behind the 8 ball for about 90 years. They’re still trying to catch up with the rest of the world-and it’s all uphill!
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