Posted on 06/12/2017 11:54:55 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
Hundreds of protesters, some of them armed, gathered at Hermann Park Saturday in an attempt to defend the honor of Sam Houston. Carrying Texas and Confederate flags, participants seemed concerned the park's Sam Houston statue might be removed since the historical figure owned slaves.
"Erasing history for the sake of political correctness or to make somebody feel better, it's not just stupid — it's dangerous," said David Amad, an organizer of the demonstration.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
But even so, I have to ask - Are all these yokels trying to tear down all the Confederate monuments telling us that they are really supporting the Republican effort of the first half of the 1860s?
Stay strong guys!!!
Erasing history is a favorite hobby of the left.
Unless they like the history.
Not only are they erasing it; they are re-writing it.
“Stay strong guys!!!”
“Erasing history is a favorite hobby of the left.”
Actually, those guys got Punked!
There never was going to be a protest demanding that the Sam Houston statute be removed.
As for erasing history, they protesters defending the Sam Houston statue showed-up with Confederate Flags and apparently unaware that Sam Houston opposed the Confederacy.
Ping.
“Not only are they erasing it; they are re-writing it.”
Check out the picture.
Confederate flags at a rally to protect the very anti-Confederate Sam Houston’s statue and on the ground, a great big pile of horse crap.
Got to love the irony.
Talibanning American history, one statue at a time...................
No one there wanted to remove the Sam Houston Statue.
The rumor of such a protest was a hoax.
The people who showed-up with Confederate Flags to support a Sam Houston statue are misguided.
Sam Houston did not support the Confederacy.
“After leaving the Governor’s mansion, Houston traveled to Galveston. Along the way, many people demanded an explanation for his refusal to support the Confederacy. On April 19, 1861, from a hotel window, he offered a tragic prediction to the assembled crowd:
‘Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.’
“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”
-Sam Houston
A cynic might point out that the racist democrats, having lost the civil rights battle and faced with the prospect of a large black voting block in the south, merely switched their stance, and not their party, to pander to the new voters.
It may be a hoax today, but the next (D) governor of Texas will actually do it..................
Oh. I got punked by the article :)
So he owned slaves but was willing to give them up to join the north?
“It may be a hoax today, but the next (D) governor of Texas will actually do it..................”
The next governor of Texas will not have the power to remove a statue in Houston.
“So he owned slaves but was willing to give them up to join the north?”
HE did not quite join the North, but he opposed secession and lost his job as governor due to his stance against the Confederacy.
“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”
Liberals just love fighting over innocuous stuff like this, instead of tackling the real problems of their base. It makes them look good and doesn’t change a thing..................
Wow.
What a prophetic quote!!!
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