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Southern Poverty Law Center To Create Map of Confederate Symbols
memphisflyer.com ^ | 9/3/2015 | Toby Sells

Posted on 09/06/2015 7:19:17 AM PDT by rktman

Earlier this month, the SPLC launched a new initiative called "Erasing Hate," which "aims to identify and eliminate government-sanctioned symbols honoring the Confederacy."

"There are numerous government-sponsored symbols of the Confederacy that are out in the public across the country, and, quite frankly, it's time for them be removed," said SPLC founder Morris Dees. "In Montgomery, Alabama, we have a Robert E. Lee High School that wasn't even named until [Brown v. the Board of Education], the desegregation case. We have government-sponsored holidays honoring Confederate 'heroes'."

Flags, street names, building names, and statues honoring the Confederacy became public targets across the country earlier this year after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 201509; confederacy; deniers; dixie; historical; splc
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To: humblegunner

ping to my post 38.


41 posted on 09/06/2015 8:31:33 AM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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To: Marcella

I’m more inclined to be a fan of Morris Day and the Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnm4GSRhn4A

:>}


42 posted on 09/06/2015 8:36:54 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

It’s gotten to the point whether I don’t care if someone thinks I’m racist or not.


43 posted on 09/06/2015 8:39:11 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: MHT

My great-great grandfather was a “Rebel” at Shiloh. He did not have any slaves; he did his own “slave” work on the farm.


44 posted on 09/06/2015 8:46:40 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: rktman

THERE ARE POSTERS ON THIS FORUM WHO ARE NO DIFFERENT

I LIST THE ONES I’VE OBSERVED ON MY PROFILE

SCUM

ALLIES OF THE CULTURAL MARXISTS


45 posted on 09/06/2015 8:47:05 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy

Well crap. Do I dare go look at your profile to see if I’m on there? LOL!


46 posted on 09/06/2015 8:48:15 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

“I’m more inclined to be a fan of Morris Day and the Time.”

Not my kind of music but anything is better than MOrris Dees. :o)


47 posted on 09/06/2015 8:49:35 AM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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To: mylife; Pelham; CatherineofAragon

Anyone who looks at SPLC knows that besides Dees who the leaders are

Mark Levin calls out Mark Potok and Joe Levin As self haters all the time on his show....I think SPLC even has attacked Mark...the irony

SPLC is a cabal of southern traitor without peer Morris Dees and a host of Alinsky Folks with Jewish surnames and a few black wannabe players

It’s a money mill

Always has been

Dees is just the southern aw shucks face....

Look behind him

PS....they hate our own Matt Bracken


48 posted on 09/06/2015 8:54:55 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: ClearCase_guy

“They have the mentality of Islamic terrorists. They are compelled to utterly destroy their opponents and erase any trace of them.”

Once they get rid of the Confederate symbols they’ll go after the founder fathers who were slaveholders. Bulldoze Monticello and Mount Vernon. Tear down the Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument. Rename Washington & Lee University and Washington, DC.

The education establishment is well on the way to removing the first 100 years of American history from the public high school curriculum. No need to teach teens about the Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, etc.


49 posted on 09/06/2015 9:14:24 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: catfish1957
Been called a racist more times than I can count.
Didn't care then, don't care now.
I hired people based on their ability to do a job and their willingness to get it done.
I would have preferred; purple, 8 armed, 4 legged employees to get the productivity up, but none of those ever applied.
I hired based on ability, I fired based on inability.
50 posted on 09/06/2015 9:32:17 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Gaffer

You mean people with confederate sounding names like Jeb? lol yet not-lol


51 posted on 09/06/2015 9:33:23 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (Ideas have consequences.)
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To: This I Wonder32460

Yeb is MEXICAN.


52 posted on 09/06/2015 9:35:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rktman

List of places named after Robert Byrd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd

Have at it.


53 posted on 09/06/2015 9:43:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: rktman
Why don't we create a map showing areas where the density of blacks exceeds that of the general population (about 1 in 10)?

Oh, yeah. THAT would be "racist."

54 posted on 09/06/2015 9:43:57 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: rktman

http://charlestoneastend.com/public-art-works/robert-c-byrd/


55 posted on 09/06/2015 9:45:35 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: rktman; All

I want a map of eugenics symbols and progressive symbols and coomie symbols.....those are all over the place an should be taken down immediately (start with PP everywhere)


56 posted on 09/06/2015 9:46:37 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rktman

They’ll have their work cut out for them in West Virginia, where dozens of entities are named after a certain Ku Klux Klan Keagle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd


57 posted on 09/06/2015 9:49:52 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: NKP_Vet

I agree with you on that the SPLC are a bunch of bastards. Where we part company at is that they are ignorant and stupid. They are evil, intelligent, and dedicated. They know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it. In a sane world, they would be hanging from telephone poles.


58 posted on 09/06/2015 9:50:38 AM PDT by sport
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To: Fresh Wind

Oops, “keagle” = “kleagle”


59 posted on 09/06/2015 9:51:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: rktman

The SPLC has out lived any usefulness it might have ever had.


60 posted on 09/06/2015 10:03:00 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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