"Can't we all just get along?"
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Posted on 07/12/2015 6:27:59 PM PDT by llevrok
SEATTLE - A Confederate monument in Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery is in the spotlight as a local group calls for its removal.
For more than a century, Lake View Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Seattle's pioneers.
Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families.
"Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive."
LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle City leaders to have the 89-year-old United Confederate Veterans Memorial taken down.
"To me this is the most racist monument in the Northwest," says LaFevere.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal is out of his hands.
"Private property is private property," Murray tells KOMO News. "I support the First Amendment. I don't want it there, I don't like it, but I also don't believe it's the roll of government to tell people what to do with their private property."
Created and funded by the Washington state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926, the monument includes the "Stars and Bars" battle flag.
The memorial has been vandalized repeatedly over the years, most recently defaced by graffiti following the racially-motivated Charleston Church shootings.
"I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that."
And when all evidence of slavery is gone there goes any case they might have ever had for reparations because now there is no evidence slavery ever happened!
> Also interviewed friends of Stanley Ann dunham....
That says it all about which altar she kneels at...
"Can't we all just get along?"
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Aww,leave ‘em. Many of us had family on both sides of the Mason-Dixon, which makes the bellyaching about the Confederate flag the stranger. It’s history (Civil War) good and bad, but it’s in our fiber as a nation. Ripping the flag, statues, memorials, and any other memory is destructive, not healing as the whiners insist.
Will Lenin be the next priority for the sensitive snowflakes in Seattle?
It is never about the issue with the left. It is always about power and self aggrandizement so they go up a (few) notches in the eyes of their peers. (if we were talking money, we’d call it greed)
They started the dig up and move game. We got plenty of those dead Yankees laying around here. They want play the goolish grave desecration game, around Richmond we can do that in spades.
Moving ANYONE’S body is illogical. The left and Nikita Halonov should leave history alone. All of this because a crazy shot up a church and had a blog? Where are the protests about the creep murdering Christians? Why wasn’t that a crime against religion?
I find Seattle oppressive and offensive and intolerant. Typical liberals.
Muzzies have been enslaving non-Muzzies for over 3,000 years to this very day.
Si’ahl earned his reputation at a young age as a leader and a warrior, ambushing and defeating groups of enemy raiders coming up the Green River from the Cascade foothills, and attacking the Chimakum and the S'Klallam, tribes living on the Olympic Peninsula. Like many of his contemporaries, he owned slaves captured during his raids
- wikipedia
“All (I repeat: ALL) evidence of slavery must be banished NOW !!”
You neglected to add that the State in which Seattle is located should be renamed because it’s currently named after a slave owner.
“All (I repeat: ALL) evidence of slavery must be banished NOW !!”
You neglected to add that the State in which Seattle is located should be renamed because it’s currently named after a slave owner.
Let’s get rid of the statue to Lenin first shall we?
WA Ping Absolutely not. They will never see the irony nor the hypocrisy.
Most people don’t know that Highway 99 (that runs from the Canadian border to the Mexican border) was named the “Jefferson Davis Memorial Parkway” back (I believe) in the 1920’s. There is still a marker in Vancouver Washington.
Hot off the press. Liberal dingbats call for anything made from cotton to be destroyed and nothing to ever again be made from that “racist” crop that so many ancestors of negroes had to pick for whitey!
THIS is offensive!
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