How about a statue along this line 
Posted on 04/30/2008 9:12:42 PM PDT by BnBlFlag
Petition Seeks to Remove Denton Confederate Statue(Denton County, Texas)DENTON - While to some the statue of a Confederate soldier that stands before the Denton County Courthouse represents a piece of history, others say they believe it just represents hypocrisy. That stand has incited two University of North Texas students to start a petition for the removal of the historical landmark, a statue of a Confederate soldier holding his gun to represent the South in the Civil War. "It's really very frustrating that so many people would look at this and clap," said Aron Duhon, one of the students behind the petition. Duhon said the statue, with its two separate fountains, is a standing ovation to racism. The two fountains were originally made separate for whites and blacks. "A confederate soldier who took up arms in defense of a regime based on slavery is the farthest thing from a hero possible," Duhon said. The word "HERO" was etched in the memorial nearly 90 years ago. "We live in a diverse population," said Jason V. Waite, another student behind the petition. "We have the University of North Texas here. We have lots of foreign students, lots of commuters and this only puts a damper on entrepreneurial interests in Denton." Denton County Judge Mary Horn said the students' petition is the third time the confederate statue issue has caught the attention of the commissioners court. "We did take it up with the Texas Historical Commission and their feeling is it is part of history and it does need to stay," Horn said. There are those who agree. "When I see a Confederate soldier memorial, I got to stop to have a picture of that," said Sandy Kolls, a self-professed historical buff. Kolls came across the statue while visiting Texas from Illinois. "I'm a northerner and I honor the soldiers who fought for the Confederacy, okay?" she said of the statue. "So, I get a good feeling." There are also others who disagree. "I believe it represents hatred," said Coby Williams. "That's just like having, I guess, like a slave owner with a whip," agreed Leah Herford. The UNT students say they will collect signatures now and throughout the summer to try to convince the Texas Historical Commission to remove the statue. In the past, the Commission has stood firm on keeping the memorial standing on public ground. E-mail ddenmon@wfaa.com Print this story Email this story
Break into my house and I will do the same thing to you as my ancestors did to the Yankees. They might have lost but to make a blanket statement that the South was wrong is also incorrect. My only ancestors that owned slaves fought for the North and those that didn’t fought for the South...explain that?
How about a statue along this line
I bet they have a stroke...
Shhh.... Someone might mention all those black freemen living in the confederacy, too. Then the S would really HTF.
You know...just to make sure It wasnt a halucination...I went and did little review...
Some of the letters written in the day are astounding...
Thanks!
He calls it END RACSIM AND VIOLENT MILITARY HISTORY
he’s after any military statue
Good lord, this is what happens when Dixie haters like some of the asshats here on this forum get their way on things Southern.
and he’s just as effed up and neurotic as they are here
y’all should all get help and when the FReepathon is over I’ll chip in.
A good Yankee.
The soldiers face Northeast, the direction the Yankees came from, and might come from again.
He’s with this group of Kooks:
Duhon is a French Louisana name...somebody raised this prick wrong.
“......Dallas/Fort Worth and their Suburbs were being taken over by Liberals”.
Northerners and Californicators are moving in in droves, mainly to the Suburbs. (Some of them are Conservatives, but even the majority of those don’t understand a thing about Southern Heritage.)
Dallas has been taken over by Blacks, Hispanics, White Leftists and Queers.
I have a book on Black Confederates I bought at the Black Slave History bookstore at Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana two weeks ago.
I also bought a book of slave journals written in the 1920s in their own words
A book on the free mulattos of New Orleans and their role in the Civil War on both sides
and others...
most folks are so ignorant on this stuff and just spout off what they think is supposed to be the “politically correct answer”
a disservice to all of us but more so to the memories of folks who actually lived it
someone explain to me how South bashing and giving in to political correctness is a conservative value?
Indeed..the black confederates are dismissed as non black aka creole....and most people dont know what the hell creole even means...
Ignorance knows no bounds.
Nah...slavery still exists in africa.
Kinda ironic.
“The Soldiers face Northeast the direction the Yankees came from.”
The statue of Dick Dowling, victor of the Battle of Sabine Pass, which stands in Houston’s Hermann Park, faces South. I’ve always thought that was because the Yankees were invading Texas from the South (Gulf of Mexico).
The Confederate Statue in my old hometown of Beaumont faces North.
“A good Yankee”.
Amen, Bro.!
Oak Alley Plantation is, to me, the most beautiful Plantation House and grounds in the Country.
Now wardaddy, drink the kool aid and don't ask non PC questions. We must enjoy our diversity. Try not to upset the Obamites, the liberals, and the Democrats...they are sensitive to harsh criticism you know....
“He’s with this group of Kooks”.
Figures.
“Duhon is a Louisiana French name....somebody raised this prick wrong”.
I agree. There’s not too many radical Cajun Leftists. In fact, I went to Jr. High and High School with a Duhon. A good ole Boy and a good athlete.
I just ate dinner tonight at Sole off the square in Franklin Tennessee about 20 minutes from my home in Nashville.
I noticed the town square CSA memorial statue faces due south.
I love Franklin, some Northerners (not the good ones)recently tried this same crap here as Duhon and his Marxist pals at United AID....but they got nowhere.
One of the two mentally handicapped freepers thus far on this thread asking why there are no Union memorials in Maryland has apparently never been to a Civil War battlefield (Sharpsburg)where the Union memorials outnumber the CSA memorials by about 30 to 1
The ignorant also ask why we don’t put up Union memorials down here to Southerners who rejected the butternut-grey of their peers?
We have some actually in places like East Tennessee but everyone came to resent Reconstruction heavy handedness including even former Union sympathizers.
My mom was buried last month at Evergreen Cemetary in Mufreesboro outside Nashville about 30 miles SE and where about 20 yards from under the large Oak where she rests lie about 200 true Southern lads who gave all they had for their kinfolk and land 150 years ago.
Guess where I directed all her flowers beside the pall to be placed?
I ain’t never gonna take a crap on my ancestors and I’m teaching my kids the same lesson. Proudly.
My great great grandfather...one of several CSA ancestrors:
“One of the pioneering first families of Sullivan’s Hollow, Mary Elizabeth’s father, Thomas Rassberry Byrd, worked as a cobbler in the Confederate Army at the Battle and Siege of Vicksburg under Capt. Bontison. “Papa was only a lad when he served. It was late in the war. He traveled to Vicksburg and the surrounding camps repairing the soldiers’ shoes. He would tell us about the terrible conditions of the people of Vicksburg. It stayed with him his whole life-—the sacrifices of the Vicksburg people.”
Mrs. Causey and her sisters were all inducted into the Meridian Robert E. Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the only known family with five surviving “Real” Daughters of the Confederacy. “
If you won’t stand up for where you come from then you’ll fall for anything.
This argument over Southern deconstruction is just part of a larger effort to dismantle Western Civilization piece by piece and they reckon they should start with the most vulnerable. Those here who pile on in their insatiable thirst for self righteousness are either ignorant or stupid or disingenuous as to why they are here on FR to begin with.
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