Posted on 12/17/2015 12:28:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
The New Orleans City Council has voted in favor of removing prominent Confederate monuments along some of its busiest streets - a sweeping move by a city seeking to break with its Confederate past.
The council's 6-1 vote on Thursday afternoon allows the city to remove four monuments, including a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has stood at the center of a traffic circle for 131 years.
The decision came after months of impassioned debate. Now, the city faces possible lawsuits seeking to keep the monuments where they are. ...
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History is history...Good or bad...It is still history...You can’t change it or hide it....
New Orleans - Where the Second Civil War started.
Destroying history in the name of hysteria.
Can they vote to close mosques also?
A Mao-style cultural cleansing.
Amazing the depths this country is sinking to, in so many ways.
We are soooo screwed.
Hmmmmm.....Ok. Remove one of the cities few icons left. Brilliant!
Laughable. All this PC crap in a decaying thug city that will be part of the Gulf of Mexico in the next big hurricane. Its like arguing about proper table settings and decor while the Titanic sinks.
They’re not afraid of muzzies - only dead confederates...
These people don’t have the technical ability to remove these monuments without hiring white people to do it for them.
Ok , bring out the Pickup trucks and battle flags again. Its free speech time!!! Com’on Cajuns!!
In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the past. …167 years of trying the same thing over and over in the name of both insanity and micromanaging the world.
No better than the Taliban blowing up statues.
I wish. That’s long overdue.
The Confederacy abandoned New Orleans in 1862 to protect a small town in NE Mississippi. Did they know something back then we don’t know now?
To paraphrase Mao, the US Government is creating communism with American characteristics.
Exactly!Symbols of PAST slavery violence and oppression have to go while symbols of PRESENT slavery ( Muslim women dressed in body bags—or the face abuse ir death- dont offend at all. Funny how they’re not afraid to stand up against the past but the present is tolerable.
Sand Taliban, Black Taliban same thing.
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