It's never enough with these assclowns. If we're going to erase history then I still suggest we delete any reference to slavery. Never happened so what's the gripe? No more "Dixie" beer. No more Winn-Dixie grocery stores. No more "Whistling Dixie". I suppose making reference to "the south" could be classified as micro-aggression?
1 posted on
08/16/2015 8:23:37 AM PDT by
rktman
To: rktman
New Orleans has been down this road before. Some years ago, they deleted the name of George Washington school, because George Washington owned slaves. The school board decided that schools should not honor slave owners.
The school was renamed after some obscure African king.
No word as to whether the boost to self esteem of the black students, who no longer had to attend a school named after a slave owner, resulted in greater student achievement.
To: rktman
... should be taken down under an ordinance that allows the City Council to remove public statues that celebrate racist ideologies or are likely to be sites of violent protest... They going to take down the memorials to Huey Long, too?
To: rktman
an ordinance that allows the City Council to remove public statues that celebrate racist ideologies or are likely to be sites of violent protest Wow. And I guess a "racist ideology" is any ideology that the City Council doesn't particularly like. Because any ideology can be deemed racist if you twist and turn it enough.
By why stop there, City Council? I'm sure there are books in your city libraries that also celebrate racist ideologies. A biography of Lee, for example. Burn those books in big bonfires!
4 posted on
08/16/2015 8:31:56 AM PDT by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: rktman
As many in the democrat party are, we need to remind them of the history of communism...
![Image and video hosting by TinyPic](http://i45.tinypic.com/208yb5u.jpg)
"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communisms crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
8 posted on
08/16/2015 8:36:44 AM PDT by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: rktman
Hey - bulldoze the entire French Quarter. They sold slaves there.
11 posted on
08/16/2015 8:39:09 AM PDT by
mom.mom
To: rktman
Name some school:
Voodoo High School
That should make some folks happy.
12 posted on
08/16/2015 8:40:07 AM PDT by
TYVets
To: rktman
I suppose that all the restored slaves' quarters that are featured in guided tours of the city will be ordered demolished as well. Right, Mitch?
None of this has anything to do with the city of New Orleans, which has never flinched at its history, no matter how sordid. Landrieu is trying to make his bones in the national political scene.
15 posted on
08/16/2015 8:42:56 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: rktman
I lived in New Orleans, on and off, from 1953 to 1959. It was a really great place back then.
I don't remember any "racism". Of course, I was a teen. I wasn't looking for trouble.
I did learn to play the trumpet there.
The place reeks of history. It's a beautiful city.
18 posted on
08/16/2015 8:57:59 AM PDT by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: rktman
If they are intent on moving the memorials, move them to higher ground entirely outside the New Orleans jurisdiction. That will eliminate the reason to do anything when the next storm takes out this particularly corrupt city.
To: rktman
This is outrageous. That is why I have contempt for politicians such as Gov. Nikki Haley. Unless stopped, this will continue until nothing much is left of our history. One example - the Democrats are now renaming Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. Thomas Jefferson is the villain. What is next? Deleting the Constitution because of Jefferson's part?
We need to support historical preservation, not tear down our history.
20 posted on
08/16/2015 9:28:53 AM PDT by
Dante3
To: rktman
Most residents of New Orleans have no Idea what's going on or who's who. That's because almost 50% of them cannot read or write.
22 posted on
08/16/2015 10:17:23 AM PDT by
blam
(Jeff Sessions For President)
To: rktman
Is the statue of lenin still standing in Seattle?
FMCDH(BITS)
24 posted on
08/16/2015 11:48:38 AM PDT by
nothingnew
(Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson