Posted on 07/01/2017 10:34:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Two of the Confederate Armys best-known leaders have streets named for them in a place not normally associated with the Southern side of the Civil War New York City. Now some elected officials are trying to undo it.
They say its high time Stonewall Jackson Drive and General Lee Avenue in Brooklyn are renamed, pushing to join a number of Southern cities that have removed or are considering taking down Confederate statues and other memorials in public places.
To honor these men who believed in the ideology of white supremacy and fought to maintain the institution of slavery constitutes a grievous insult to the many thousands of people in Brooklyn who are descendants of the slaves held in bondage, says a letter sent to Army Secretary Robert Speer recently by Reps. Yvette Clarke, Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velazquez and Hakeem Jeffries, members of Congress who all represent parts of the borough.
The roads arent readily accessible by the general public; they run through Fort Hamilton, an active military base in southwestern Brooklyn next to the Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights neighborhoods. As part of their U.S. Army careers, both Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson spent time at the fort Lee in the early part of the 1840s and Jackson toward the end of that decade, well before the Civil War started in 1861.
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Ideology enforcement at work - erase all parts of history that don’t conform to the present-day narrative. The leftist urge to control what people think is relentless.
...radical islam, homosexuality, pedophilia, transgenderism and every other form of sexual perversion, communism, RINOism, atheism and other anti-God nonsense, criminal behavior of all types, black inadequacy, la raza, every other form of maladjusted minority status, murder, thievery, etc....
All democrat values.
Confederate street names????
What the ????
One fourth of my town’s streets are: South something - - -
South Main, South First, South Division, ... you get the picture.
Better rename them. Fast. DANG fast.
OH! And what is Google Maps going to do??? EEK!
I’m glad I live on West ‘xxxx’ Avenue.
But, you know, “West” is the next to go.
How a bout this Times Square subway station! OH, the vapors!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nyc-subway-mosaics-prompt-debate-on-confederate-symbols-1.3142855
http://nypost.com/2015/06/25/confederate-flags-adorn-this-times-square-subway-station/
Myself and about half of all veterans from NYC were inducted at Fort Hamilton. There was a little sign outside the commander’s quarters indicating that it was General Lee’s home when he was post commander. They were proud of the fact.
Or the car on Dukes of Hazard ..... suprised that show isn’t banned.
Getting a bit out of hand.
If whites are not supreme, who is?
Thank You.
Only God is supreme. Ecclesiastes 3:19 says that mankind does not even have any advantage over the animals.
Its high time to rename all the Chavez streets and streets named after socialists who
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Excellent idea...
Also may rethink all the MLK etal named streets & schools, they also ‘fought’ a system they thought was against their line of thinking....
FIRST we start with all the USN ships named after controversial types...
Chavez, Giffords, Murtha, Milk, Carter, Lewis etc etc etc
I am also not ‘fond’ of the Gerald Ford, George Bush etc etc and am willing to drop them if they drop my first group....
Of course renaming a ship is tantamount to putting the fizz back into the alka seltzer tablet after it has been exposed to water.
A+ answer.
I should’a said superior, but they don’t call ‘em white superioracists, but white supremacists.
;^)
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