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.
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.
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
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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They ought to rename the university. Its founder Paul Tulane donated considerable sums of money to support the Confederacy, and after the war he funded the construction of Confederate monuments.
Overlooking the obvious, the victory is in that slavery was ended & now the bell can be rung any time descendants of slaves want to ring it. That is the glorious victory. Seeing reminders of the Confederacy should remind us to honor freedom, and not to disparage the losing side, but to remember the glory of the Union’s victory. Of course, it takes focusing on the positive rather then the negative, as well as freedom, that allows for the ability to not be blinded by outrage and loose track of what really happened. It is a victory this bell no longer rings on a plantation. It is a victory the losing side was allowed to honor their dead, therefore reminding us of the victory of equality over inequality.
Tulane admitted its first black student as a gradual student in 1963. I was an undergraduate there from 1965 to 1969. I don’t remember any blacks in the pre-med program during that time.
Ew, it has ear cooties!