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Jeff Davis monument comes down after 106 years!
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Posted on 05/11/2017 5:00:04 PM PDT by Trumpnation

May 11, 2017: The monument to Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, the former president of the Confederacy was removed just after 5 a.m.


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To: smokingfrog

No, they are just putting the Republican Party where their name used to be and the public at large is buying it.


41 posted on 05/11/2017 5:59:06 PM PDT by sport
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To: Trumpnation
Near Future Headline:

Washington Monument to be dismantled due to first white President and slaveholder being a racist.

43 posted on 05/11/2017 6:02:18 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Joe Bfstplk
"Our history is what it is."

Exactly.

The statue to Jefferson Davis was erected in 1911.

FIFTY years after the civil war.

Several monuments were erected around that time.

NOT to "honor" slavery, but as a reminder that after about killing ourselves, we were all ONE nation after all. America.

The United States.

No matter what people thought of Lincoln, that was his ultimate goal.

I'd think that Abe himself would find tearing down this monument very offensive.

44 posted on 05/11/2017 6:03:33 PM PDT by boop ("I don't know"- Jeff Spicoli)
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To: el d new

It’s legislation within the city.

If the voters of New Orleans object, they can vote their city council reps out of office and elect candidates that will restore the monuments.


45 posted on 05/11/2017 6:05:37 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: lakecumberlandvet

They are setting the standard which should lead to requiring ALL blacks be moved back to Africa because blacks were slaves and anything that reminds us of slavery has got to be removed.


46 posted on 05/11/2017 6:09:27 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: el d new

“That has zero to do with the federal antiquities protection laws.”

The monuments in question are not protected by the Antiquities Act.


48 posted on 05/11/2017 6:15:11 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: el d new

“BLOCK THIS DESECRATION OF OUR MONUMENTS !!”

They are not our monuments.

The monuments belong to the City of New Orleans.


49 posted on 05/11/2017 6:18:28 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Timpanagos1

Nice sidestep. You still didn’t answer the question.


50 posted on 05/11/2017 6:19:23 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Timpanagos1

Has there been any discussion in the area of donating them to some of the
Civil War Era National Cemeteries. Lots of them around to choose from.

https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/list_of_sites.html


51 posted on 05/11/2017 6:21:16 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

The plan is to move all the statues to a museum.

The statues will still exist but will not be monuments.


52 posted on 05/11/2017 6:23:11 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Uncle Sham

Interesting argument.


53 posted on 05/11/2017 6:32:08 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Timpanagos1

These morons forgot that Davis, Lee, and Beauregard, among others, attended West Point, and fought in the Mexican-American War. They served this country with distinction. Lee’s father fought in the Revolutionary War. But all these people remember is their role in the Civil War.


54 posted on 05/11/2017 6:39:43 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Timpanagos1
"The plan is to move all the statues to a museum."

What museum? Will they have to build it, or does it already exist? They should just move them all to Beauvoir - Jefferson Davis Library/Museum in Biloxi.

55 posted on 05/11/2017 6:45:14 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trumpnation

Two young men hoisted confederate flags today outside the Summerville, SC (Charleston burb) town hall. Seemed to be met with agreeing waves, honks, etc.


56 posted on 05/11/2017 6:45:32 PM PDT by chiller (One from the Right - One for the Fight)
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To: Timpanagos1

I would have a hard time recognizing the place. I hope to make an extended visit sometime in the next few years.


57 posted on 05/11/2017 6:49:33 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Trumpnation

The dims (commies) want to destroy our history so that their history will be the only one that exists. They are already doing this in our schools.


58 posted on 05/11/2017 7:11:09 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Trumpnation

Now there is no reason to keep the waters at bay. Let New Orleans sink.


59 posted on 05/11/2017 7:37:40 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: el d new

I read somewhere, possibly
here on FR, the first slave
in the America’s was a white
man owned by a black man.
It’s saddening to see our
history torn from the books
one page at a time...


60 posted on 05/11/2017 7:38:05 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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