Posted on 03/25/2016 7:06:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by death threats, intimidation and even what may have been the intentional torching of a contractor’s Lamborghini.
For now, at least, things have gotten so nasty the city hasn’t found a contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The city doesn’t have its own equipment to move them and is now in talks to find a company, even discussing doing the work at night to avoid further tumult.
Initially, it appeared the monuments would be removed quickly after the majority black City Council on Dec. 17 voted 6-1 to approve the mayor’s plan to take them down. The monuments, including towering figures of Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, have long been viewed by many here as symbols of racism and white supremacy. …
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“It’s not enough to force massive third world immigration on us to replace the white Christian majority that built this country. They need to replace us and erase our history.”
That’s pretty much the Nikki Haley theory of government, aided and abetted by her neocon advisers.
I am glad there are still Southerners who will fight those who would erase their history and destroy their culture. If this county goes for Hillary, I say put that capital back in Alabama.
For “not much of a speaker” Forrest spoke volumes.
White people deciding to start acting like black people if things don’t go their way.
Will they be removing the Pirate Jean Paul Laffitte stores, etc. from New Orleans as well? Why celebrate piracy and banditry?
/sarc?
//no sarc?
///who can tell anymore...
Reminds me of the song Butler's men sang as they marched through New Orleans.
Rape, Rape, Rape the women,
Loot, loot, the guns and linen,
All we will leave behind is ruin and some pregnant women...
Ugh. I never heard that. Well, times never change in a way.
I wonder if the beautiful Joan of Arc statue down near the river will be slated for destruction?
And these were the wonderful, morally superior “victors”, the forerunners of today’s leftists-set themselves up as morally superior based upon nothing more than their own say-so, while trying to degrade better men than themselves, and gratuitously insult women. It irked them no end that southern women and men considered them beneath notice.
I will never set foot in the #$%^&# town again in the rest of my life.
Eat that NOLA...... Hope your tourism dollars dry up to nothing
NO is a sh**hole and always will be. The only reason to go there is to flirt with danger and depravity.
Nothing like leftist totalitarianism that the little fascists bring to the table.
Statues now,
You and me later.
Can we erase slavery then? Never happened.
75% agree. However, if you pick and choose, there are points like genealogical research, which NOLA has for LA, plus the zoo, and French Quarter (morning only). You are right though, after 6 PM, there are places in NOLA that I would get a mile within.
Getting beignet powder on my shirt with coffee is a must too. But as a southern heritage defender, that is all out the window now.
Yes, it’s true. A city with a majority black City Council, that’s been run by black mayors for roughly thirty of the last forty years, where the police superintendent and sheriff are both black and there’s substantial black representation on the city/parish judicial benches, has decided that racism and white supremacy are among its most important problems right now.
Exactly right.
To hell with these politically correct traitors.
An excellent point.
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