Posted on 02/23/2009 10:18:10 AM PST by Rebeleye
Yet it remains Raleigh's most prominent piece of public art, a signature symbol with an ugly past representing values and ambitions that no longer reflect who we are.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
Someone needs to zap this to these fine ladies. (Used to be a member in another state) :)
Don’t be fooled here, this is just an attempt by a doomed lib paper to gin up controversy & appear relevant. No chance the statue will go.
Pathetic attempt to be Reagan. These jerks recycle the same story every 9 months - rinse and repeat.
[A sizable labor force was devoted to construction. According to McLaughlin, “The white carpenter was supported by at least two or three slaves. Cutting and hauling lumber was slave work; sawyers were slaves...The master carpenter James Dinsmore was given as helpers a slave apprentice, Lewis and John Hemings, Jefferson's slave carpenter, who was to become the equal to Dinsmore as a joiner. Hemings was one of a number of slaves who learned the building trades and were put to work along side of white craftsmen, or in place of them, at Monticello.”]
Jefferson's slaves also mined, washed, molded and fired the red clay for the half-million bricks used in Monticello.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello
Political correctness is philosophical totalitarianism.
“Where does letting a minority decide that it should stay make any more sense than letting a minority decide it should go?”
Our nation’s laws were established to protect the interests of the minority from the tyranny of the majority. What you seem to be advocating, by majority rule, is a pure democracy; and we all know what the wolves and the lamb had to say about what to eat for dinner based on the pure democracy of majority vote. No thanks. Give me a Constitutional Republic over a pure democracy any time.
Ditto’s!
This Yankee thinks that guy is 100% ‘grade A’ dickhead.
The will of the majority is anything you agree with while the tyranny of the majority is anything you do not. A bit selective, IMHO.
As opposed to s***heels like the author.
If it comes to that you won't be lacking for company.
“The will of the majority is anything you agree with while the tyranny of the majority is anything you do not. A bit selective, IMHO.”
The will of the majority is restrained by laws that protect the interests of the minority, as we have in a Constitutional Republic. Those laws protect the minority who may very well be at risk by that majority will.
Your apparent support for a pure democracy would leave 49% of the people at the mercy of 51%. Hardly a comforting thought.
And in this case if 51% of the people say the statue should go then I think it should go. If 49% say it should go then I think it should stay. Can't get much simple than that. This isn't some burning Constitutional issue here, it's a statue from a cause lost 140 years ago.
My guess is that his ancestors avoided military service on either side of the Civil War.
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“This isn’t some burning Constitutional issue here....”
If you ever took time to read others’ posts instead of waxing pedantic you’d see that my comment WAS that since it only involved a statue, the plebiscite should determine its future. BUT, that once such a precedent is set, it could lead to other plebiscites of majority will that could be fatal to other interests. Hence my comment to beware of unitended precedent, and my strong support of a Constitutional Republic over a pure democracy, the latter of which you seem to favor.
“And in this case if 51% of the people say the statue should go then I think it should go. “
Let’s take a vote. If 51% of the posters on this forum agree that you are a jackass and demand you leave, will you abide?
Only if that covers all jackasses, yourself included.
I’ll put my screen name up against yours and let the forum vote who stays and who goes. It will be an exercise in democracy using your quote as the thread premise.
Game on?
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