Posted on 06/21/2005 12:05:45 PM PDT by Crackingham
Vandals damaged the city's monument to Confederate soldiers by spraying black paint over the faces of statues representing four white rebel fighters. The damage was discovered during the weekend at the memorial, which consists of a 56-foot-tall granite pillar surrounded by four metal figures representing the navy, cavalry, infantry and artillery branches of the Confederate military. All are white.
"I think the Civil War is still sensitive to a segment of the South," Nancy Perry, the city's museum director, said Tuesday.
Police had made no arrests. A metal conservator could begin work to clean up the statues this weekend. The monument, dedicated in 1893 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was scheduled for an $80,000 restoration this year.
This is a hate crime. Let's see if it's treated as such. The vandals will hailed as heroes by MSM, watch and see.
damn yankees....
No, this will just be very politely ignored.
"I think the Civil War is still sensitive to a segment of the South,"
Well....duh.
"Police had made no arrests. A metal conservator could begin work to clean up the statues this weekend"
The Police should DO their jobs, arrest these people, put them in pink jumpsuits, give them a bucket of soapy water and some small toothbrushes and put them to work scrubbing off the mess they made.
No work, no lunch, so supper, no breakfast - just a hungry night in the local jail.
Why have we turned into such a nation of wimps????
I don't think it was Yankees. More likely NAACP.
Not all of us yanks feel that way.
I've met as many self-hating Southrons in my life as bigoted yankees.
Hate haters, perpetrating an act of hate to give themselves something else to hate, as best I can tell. They've got a lot of time on their hands.
I doubt that too. More than likely a couple of ignorant 19 year old brainwashed white college students.
"all are white" what a sub-moronic thing to say and where do you go to find a usuable quote?,why the musuem director of course, why not ask the guys at the Southern States what they think, cowardly deed, pathetically covered.
I agree completely. This is the work of social crusaders for great justice/liberals/socialists/communists/progressives/social democrats whatever the hell they are calling themselves these days. Look for dreadlocks, a preference for 'indy music', an unreasoning sympathy for the underdog, militantly secular, pseudo-humanist kids with middle, or upper middle class parents. The NAACP does not normally stoop so low as petty vandalism. They have their flaws, to be sure, but this is more a stupid spur of the moment kid thing than the calculated work of an advocacy group.
It was probably tourists who decided to sneak in from Va. Beach
I don't see the connection of leftist radicalism with indie music. I enjoy a wide variety of music, including several independent label bands. Most of this sort of music is simply apolitical, obsessed with attaining pop perfection instead of human perfection.
Yeah, and not the segment you're thinking of, either.
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Awful story.
1. Do you suppose there will be any sort of "apology" from any group for this awful act? (If Wachovia can apologize for something it never did, could some other group apologize for this sort of action?)
2. Do you suppose any group will be willing to pay reparations to the descendents of Confederate Soldiers as a way of atoning for this awful desecration of the memory of victims of Northern Agression?
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