Posted on 04/30/2016 4:57:45 AM PDT by C19fan
A Confederate monument capped with a statue of Jefferson Davis will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.
The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
Dear Ntokozo Qwabe,
Remember Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Zimbabwe....
These are what you seek for South Africa.
Who should rule after the last White has been driven out?
Zulu? Xhosa? What about the Basotho, Bapedi, Venda, Tswana, Tsonga, Swazi and Ndebele?
Where do the Coloured fit into your ethnically cleansed plans? And the Indians - are not they also “People of Colour”?
If you go for the Canadian model of “First Peoples”, what will you do with those latecomers, the Zulu?
Are there voters left in Kentucky who care about history and heritage? I guess not. There is no valid justification for the ongoing destruction of our true American history.
If Africans hadn’t sold their own people into slavery, there would not be slavery. The civil war wasn’t fought over slavery alone. It was fought in the hope that a growing monster of a central government wouldn’t continue to trample state’s rights.
The North won and today the entire nation suffers in the grip of a monolithic central socialist government.
Five slave states remained with the Union during the Civil War. several did not abolish slavery till eight months after the Civil War ended when the 13th Amendment was passed.
They are out there—but you have to get off the main highways and away from the big cities to find them.
Pisses me off.
You should read RULES FOR RADICALS.
It’s all in there:
Embarrass them, make them afraid to speak out,
make them afraid, make them stressed,
silence and shame them
Use shame repeatedly on Race
Take their monuments
REBUILD
That’s right; the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the states that seceded.
When blacks came north nearly a century later, they learned that white Northerners had less use for them than Southerners.
If worse comes to worse, place the statue at the Jefferson Davis home in Biloxi, Mississippi. BUT, it should NOT be removed in any case.
Ntokozo Quabe seems to be a semi literate psychopath. God help us!
Liberals, ISIS and AlQaeda love to destroy the past they’re not comfortable with...
Liberals are thugs...
A better summation.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – A Confederate statue located in a prominent place near the University of Louisville campus will be coming down.The statue, located on 3rd Street, near the Speed Art Museum, will be removed. It was placed there in 1895.
The announcement was made at the opening of a press conference, led by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and U of L President James Ramsey on Friday morning.
The monument will be moved to a new location, "determined at a later date," according to a news release.
"It's always important to remember and respect our history, but it's equally important to reflect on that history in proper context," said Fischer. "This monument represents out history -- a painful part of our nation's history for many -- and it's best moved to a new location."
"We are not here to erase history, but we are here to announce that this statue should be situated somewhere more appropriate than a modern campus that celebrates its diversity," Dr. Ramsey said. "Kentucky certainly played a unique role in the Civil War, but is is the culture of inclusion we strive for each day at U of L that will define our future. Over the years, our campus has grown to encircle the monument, which does not symbolize the values of our campus community or that of a 21st Century institution of higher education."
According to the news release, the statue will be held in storage until an appropriate historical location is selected.
"Leadership in Mayor Fischer's and President Ramsey's offices have been working on the move for several weeks and will be discussing the options for an appropriate historical venue in the near future," the news release states. "While the monument is disassembled, the university will clean and repair the bronze figures and embellishments -- something that has not been done since 1895."
On Friday afternoon, Rep. John Yarmuth applauded the decision to remove the monument.
"I heartily welcome Mayor Fischer and President Ramsey’s decision to remove the Confederate monument from UofL’s campus," Yarmuth said in a written statement. "It honors a shameful episode in our nation's history, one that represents a hateful division and fails to truly reflect our city and Commonwealth’s role in the Civil War."
Copyright 2016 by WDRB News. All rights reserved.
This purging of all things Confederate has precedent. Before the end of the cold war Russian text books were constantly being revised to eliminate references to people who had been purged or fallen out of favor. Russians used to joke that “in the Soviet Union the future is certain; it is the past that changes.”
That’s a good quote; thanks. Red China was bad as well; one of the causes of resentment for Taiwan was that Chiang Kai-Shek took many museum pieces with him while they were trying to erase China’s imperial past.
Sad day for the state of Kentucky. Not an unexpected action by the pathetic likes of James Ramsey and Greg Fischer. Matt Bevin, what say you?
I hate this “cultural cleansing”. It is so Soviet. If I were president, I’d drag all these mothballed statues onto the White House lawn to really drive them crazy.
You know where the decision maker lives. Show up there and protest. See if voters opinions matter.
I first heard that joke from a visiting Russian chemist just before the break-up of the Soviet Union, around 1988.
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