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 contractors Lamborghini.
For now, at least, things have gotten so nasty the city hasnt found a contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The city doesnt 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 mayors 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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Wow! That is an incident from history which I have never heard. Now, I understand why the real party of hate mongers want it erased.
But before you celebrate Forrest as a racial uniter, read about his actions at Fort Pillow.
I suspect the man was too intelligent to live out his life consumed by his prejudices. That, and a proper Christian conscience, eventually led him to become the man he did.
George Wallace was remarkably similar, going from the famous picture of the guy who stood in the schoolhouse door with a gun, to being a racial uniter late in life. Of course, the libtard media will never tell you about the later part because it doesn't fit their narrative.
Can you imagine Jesse Jackson Sr. or Al Sharpton doing anything similar? Of course not! Because it would damage the industry which they so carefully built!
Forrest was the first Grand Dragon of the Klan, but he left the group when they became too radical.
South Africa was the only truly first world nation on the African continent, and that happened under white rule. The blacks under apartheid had better healthcare, better schools, lower infant mortality rates, better infrastructure, better economy, and most of the other positive markers which identify nations as “first world”. Decades after the end of apartheid, those things are gone-they didn't have to build these things from scratch, all they had to do was maintain the first world nation largely created by whites, and they couldn't even do that.
When/if whites disappear from the face of the earth, South Africa as it is now will be the world, and that's as good as it will get, and that's only if they have even the remnants of a first world nation/city/other polity to begin with. At least with the remnants, all they would have to do is maintain, but if South Africa is any indicator, even that's more than they can do. If they start with third world conditions, things will be even worse.
Of course if the Chinese are running the world, things will be a little different-at least for the Chinese. They don't have any yellow guilt, and won't be at all interested in “levelling the playing field”, or “redistribution of wealth”, or any of the other claptrap which has lead whites to altruistic suicide. If they don't even care about providing their own people with first world lives, they certainly aren't going to put themselves out to provide one to “people of color”, and they'd just as soon go “Tienanmen Square” on their azzes if those POC try their shenanigans such as “Black Lies Matter” on them.
Zimbabwe-former bread basket of Africa-they ran off or murdered the white farmers, now they have to import food. They're currently running a low-key campaign to try to entice some of those white farmers back, because the equipment they were forced to leave when they were unceremoniously kicked out sits rusting and falling apart. The land itself was parcelled out to Mugabe's family and cronies, and more or less “sharecropped” out to the peon blacks who thought they were going to own it. They don't know how to farm it, they don't know how to maintain the equipment and couldn't afford to if they did know, so the land just sits uncultivated while the people starve and Mugabe deposits the money he gets from his begging tours into his Swiss bank account.
I should hope no white person is gullible enough to go back and farm based on any promises from Mugabe and his government. You would think that the history of white farmers being murdered and exiled and their land and other possessions confiscated would be recent enough to give even the most gullible pause. You would think that they'd know that Mugabe's promises aren't worth the breath he used to speak them, and even if they were, there's nothing to stop the blacks from killing them anyway. All they've heard for decades is “evil YT”, what would stop them from killing a white farmer just because he's white?
Andy Jackson was before the CW.
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