Posted on 06/20/2020 8:19:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The dimwit vandals claimed that they were justified in their actions because General Grant “owned a slave,” but ignore or are unaware that while he had inherited a man named William Jones, he quickly filed a manumission document to free him.
grant inherited a slave, whom he immediately manumitted as soon as he could fill out the paperwork. he oversaw reconstruction and the extension of voting rights to Black citizens. he has as close to an acceptable record as any white politician of the 19th century ever had. https://t.co/ouCLm92SnL
— worrier cop (@Theophite) June 20, 2020
“I Ulysses S Grant of the City and County of St. Louis in the State of Missouri, for diverse good and valuable considerations me hereunto moving, do hereby emancipate and set free from Slavery my negro man William, sometimes called William Jones(Jones)of Mullatto complexion, aged about thirty-five years, and about five feet seven inches in height and being the same slave purchased by me of Frederick Dent-And I do hereby manumit, emancipate & set free said William from slavery forever.”
Grant’s wife’s father used slaves, but biographer Hamlin Garland spoke to their neighbors who said that “the use of slaves on the farm…was a source of irritation and shame to Grant. Jefferson Sapington told me that he and Grant used to work in the fields with the blacks. He said with glee, ‘Grant was helpless when it came to making slaves work,’ and Mrs. Boggs corroborated this. ‘He was no hand to manage negroes,’she said. ‘He couldn’t force them to do anything. He wouldn’t whip them. He was too gentle and good tempered and besides he was not a slavery man.’”
Unlike many others who freed slaves during this time period, Grant did not force Jones to purchase his freedom. He simply gave it to him, no strings attached.
Of course, there is also that whole… winning the Civil War for the Union thing.
Frederick Douglas once said, “To Grant more than any other man the Negro owes his enfranchisement.”
The San Francisco vandals also destroyed statues of Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, and Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar St. Junípero Serra.
Grant was white.
That’s all they care about.
When you goal is Tribal rule, you must first destroy signs of civilization.
(I’ll try that again)
When your goal is Tribal rule, you must first destroy signs of civilization.
Leftists are the American Taliban.
Grant once had a sandwich made by a slave, so it’s OK to tear down his statue.
My ancestors were slaves to Africans and it took more than 7 acts of God to free them. So where’s our reparations plus compounded interest?
Of course, there is also that whole… winning the Civil War for the Union thing.
Apparently that history doesn’t matter to the American Taliban. Apparently these idiots didn’t pay attention in history class.
Then again, depending on their ages, they may not have learned about civil war history in the first place. Nowadays, history isn’t taught the same as it was when many of us went through school.
That Grant was ethical and ahead of his time probably makes the leftists hate him even more. Grant was free from or resisting the prejudices and groupthink of the day. They sense he was a better person than they are and it enrages the mob.
Yes but (and I have seen discussions of this on the web. Grant was a genocidist war criminal as he was President during the final big campaigns against the Plains Indians. Sherman and Phil Sheridan and of course G A Custer are all genocidists. As the descendant of many Confederates all I can say is ‘Sheesh, what a bunch of real fools.”
They really shouldn’t do that to a statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, lest they invoke the unholy wrath of a demon lord.
Who will clean and restore the statue (and the other SF statues) and set it upright again?
These people are largely illiterate; even those who have the ability to read in a rudimentary manner probably can’t read and assimilate enough to gain from a book of history - unless it’s made up of ‘bumper sticker’ slogans. They are largely *ignorant* about history, and can basically only read and vaguely understand pictures. The state in which our educational system has existed for decades has left them that way.
What else do you expect from a mindless, brainwashed horde like this?
It seems to me that anyone willfully destroying public (or private) property in this way should be arrested, prosecuted, and punished, under the laws for which the parents, grand-parents, great-grandparents, etc. of many of these numbskulls probably voted.
Antifa, BLM and ISIS all use the same tactics including destruction of any historical statues or patriotic symbols. These enemy combatants are all part of the globalist world take over. The UN sanctions these war crimes and encourages it to continue. Globalists foot the bill and gain control.
If you do not vote and vote for Trump, you will see the end of the U.S.
Your freedom, income and land will be gone.
The idiot left will find out that they were just pawns and will also find out in short order that they are expendable. The real joke will be on them. They will also end up with nothing but the spirit of the antichrist controlling their lives.
Maybe sherman will be next.
I think the shoeless one is a gal.
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I have ancestors who died in Lincoln’s army freeing the slaves. Where’s my reparations?
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