Posted on 03/01/2020 4:45:05 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Tulane University's "Victory Bell" has been removed from its pedestal on the school's Uptown campus after officials learned it was originally used as a plantation bell.
In a letter emailed to the Tulane community, President Mike Fitts and Board Chairman Doug Hertz said they were informed last week that the bell was originally used to direct the movements of enslaved people on a plantation.
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When are we going to start removing all depictions of communists from the public square? What’s good for the goose.
What will he do if he should learn that the Tulane campus occupys a former plantation site where slaves lived and worked? Will he erase the university?
Everything prior the civil war with roots in slavery should be destroyed. Read that sentence very carefully, it’s loaded with sarcasm and racism.
The bell has been on campus 60 years and no one knew. The story is likely bogus.
Watch a Florida State basketball game some time. All the kids in the bleachers are doing the “tomahawk chop” during the game. This to me is a most glaring example of hypocrisy. Those same kids are tearing down history and “offensive” statues etc because of their perceived notion of racism. The tomahawk chop is ok though because it shows school spirit!? It sure is hard to learn all the rules of political correctness.
Yet che, fidel, mao and stalin are AOK. COMMIES FACISTS MARXISTS AT WORK
Cultural genocide
How long before there is a federal law prohibiting anything pertaining to the Confederates? Similar to Germany and their laws against NAZI memorabilia.
What a bunch of snowflake nitwits. Do they also know that Tulane was once a segregated university? Obviously, the place should be burned to the ground.
“The bell has been on campus 60 years and no one knew. The story is likely bogus.”
There was a weird urban legend going around a few years ago that the word “picnic” had something to do with people going to the countryside to watch a lynching while enjoying their basket of food and beverage.
I had a fairly intelligent black lady (I thought she was intelligent) tell me that very story one day and later when I came back with the true origins and entomology of the word “picnic” she scoffed. I haven’t talked to that stupid-ass since.
Under Louis' rule, after he revoked the Treaty of Nantes in 1685, it became a capital crime to attempt to leave France, though the sentence was sometimes commuted in favor of a lifetime of slavery in the brutal galleys of Louis' ships.
In spite of this, hundreds of thousands managed to escape. This required wealth, secrecy, careful planning, the ability to leave on short notice, maps obtained in secret, abandoning all one's possessions, trusting strangers--and most of all luck.
Anyone informing Louis' authorities could receive a large percentage of all the material possessions of those attempting to escape, quite an incentive.
In one example, from the Atlantic Coast, it was necessary to take your family, including children and infants, and whatever possessions you could carry, including enough gold or currency for payments and bribes, to a beach at night, and board a row boat to be taken into the open ocean again at night for a rendezvous with a British or Dutch ship again in the open ocean.
There were other routes of escape, e.g. through Switzerland or Holland.
Some succeeded.
Some did not. For example, in 1696, in a small village, a group was discovered attempting to escape. The leader was hanged in the village square, the women were sent to a convent, the remaining men--some as young as 14 years old!--became galley slaves.
There are many sources of information. Here are a few from the internet:
Huguenot Galley Slaves:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=huguenot+galley+slaves+&go=Search&qs=n&form=QBIR&sp=-1&pq=huguenot+galley+slaves+&sc=0-23&cvid=FD4D982A771040E58A251ADFC62CC137&first=1&cw=1117&ch=607
Torture of Huguenots in France :
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-torture-of-huguenots-in-france-after-the-revocation-of-the-edict-of-32387225.html
Torture of the Huguenots, images:
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=torture+of+the+huguenots&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1117&ch=607
You’ve got the goal of the Lefties figured out. That’s what all of this is about. Getting rid of the USA.
“when I came back with the true origins and entomology of the word “picnic” she scoffed. I haven’t talked to that stupid-ass since.”
Some libs are so wedded to their personal word view and their sense of personally perceived as suffering victimology that even the truth can not be accepted by them.
Personal accountability...why dazzz “racisss”!
“What a bunch of snowflake nitwits. Do they also know that Tulane was once a segregated university? Obviously, the place should be burned to the ground.”
Nuke New Orleans and be done with it...
However New Orleans has a long history of integration. In fact NOLA was integrated before integration was even considered in this country.
But nobody seems to remember or cares to acknowledge that fact. Not only was New Orleans fully integrated there was a type of a caste system which developed in New Orleans and each level of that caste system was fully integrated as well.
Are you saying that all the public schools, restaurants and hotels, etc., in NOLA were integrated decades before the civil rights era of the 1960s? I doubt that.
And Tulane was a segregated university for decades, clearly an institution used to perpetuate white supremacy, so it needs to be destroyed according to the 'thinking' of the loony left.
My thought as well. Social justice idiocy has deeply permeated academia, including my alma mater.
where are the fighters of yesteryears... where are the men who had a red line and didnt put up with chickens... give in one time and they will hound you next time and next....
They play dirty and in the dark.. we need a task force like the cavalry and motor cycle crews...
“...it was originally used as a plantation bell. ...”
Gasp - NO! The horror!!! A PLANTATION bell!!!
Damn... How many slaves did that “Plantation Bell” own????
Oh, lawsy lawsy lawsy!!! We got’s ta gets that ting outta dere before’s somebody’s little feelings get hurt!!!!!!
Shouldn’t we invalidate the democrat party under the identical rationale?
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