Leave The General Alone!
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When are they going to remove Jackson Square?
I guess St Louis Cathedral will be "removed" too...
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Posted on 06/24/2015 12:39:41 PM PDT by Pelham
Now is the time to talk about replacing the statue of Robert E. Lee, as iconic as it is controversial, from its perch at the center of Lee Circle, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced Wednesday (June 24) during a gathering held to highlight his racial reconciliation initiative.
"Symbols really do matter," he said. "Symbols should reflect who we really are as a people.
"We have never been a culture, in essence, that revered war rather than peace, division rather than unity."
The slaying last week of nine black people in a historic Charleston, S.C., church at the hands of Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, has sparked heated debate about whether the Confederate battle flag and other symbols associated with the country's racist past ought to be displayed in public places.
Just two days ago, Landrieu was noncommittal when asked whether the Lee statue should be removed, though he called for a larger discussion on it and other Confederate monuments in New Orleans. The 2018 Tricentennial Commission, whose tasks include addressing the city's complex racial history ahead of its 300th anniversary, would also examine the propriety of the monuments continued display on public property, the mayor's office said.
"These symbols say who we were in a particular time, but times change. Yet these symbols -- statues, monuments, street names, and more -- still influence who we are and how we are perceived by the world," a spokesman said in a statement.
"Mayor Landrieu believes it is time to look at the symbols in this city to see if they still have relevance to our future." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
If Landrieu had any guts he would demand the LSU change their nickname. LSU chose Tigers in honor of a LA Civil War unit. Replace Geaux Tigers with Geaux Catfish.
A modern Democrat insulting his anti-black Democrat forebearers
And that will assure that the Democrats will beat the GOP like a rented mule in 2016 as many just give up on the GOP as anything other than a wing of a Rat run uniparty.
I’m waiting for the next demand - politician demands all people blinded as too much out there is bothersome to look at.
>The liberals have been waiting for an excuse like this for years. It has all be preplanned.
Since Obama’s / Damien’s birth.
JJ.... you are absolutely correct. This does sound like ISIS in every way possible.
The news media used a single act by a single individual to take away our freedom of speech. If people don’t see now that the media is the enemy and the problem I don’t know when they will.
Democrats like Landrue also join in with the media to take away our rights including freedom of speech.
Two Minutes of Hate - Orwell
https://youtu.be/t4zYlOU7Fpk
I could see New Orleanians objecting to a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest or Jubal Early, but not Lee.
I demand that the statue of Robert (KKK) Byrd in WV be torn down!
That does look like a mob of Democrat voters with the programmed loyalty response at the end.
You need to do a lot of tearing and renaming as every piece of Federal largesse in WV has KKK Byrd’s name on it. For example this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope
I remember thinking how stupid and backward the Taliban were when they destroyed those Buddist figures. Our liberals are no better.
“Out of chaos comes order’’ said the Nazis. Who do you think is fomenting this stuff? The modern day Nazis, aka The Democrat Party.
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Yes! She’s a witch, burn her! (sar.)
Now that’s a very good comparison.
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