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Crew begins dismantling Confederate monument in Louisville
Yahoo news ^ | November 19, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 11/20/2016 9:06:24 AM PST by yoe

A work crew began to dismantle a Confederate monument in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, the mayor said, in the latest move to take down or relocate symbols of the slaveholding Southern Confederacy from the American Civil War.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer in a pair of messages on Twitter showed photos of figures that had been removed from the monument.

[snip]Students and staff members at the University of Louisville had said the memorial condoned slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: dixie; gregfischer; louisville; purge
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To: jmacusa
"I’m a conservative."

Cuckservative.

81 posted on 11/21/2016 5:37:25 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Godebert
Thanks for ceding the argument to me Dixiecrat.
82 posted on 11/21/2016 5:39:12 AM PST by jmacusa (Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
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To: Godebert
Kentucky is red on that map, boy.

Kentucky was a union state during the civil war, boss.

83 posted on 11/21/2016 5:40:41 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
"Kentucky was a union state during the civil war, boss."

Kentucky was also a slave state.

84 posted on 11/21/2016 5:48:20 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: jmacusa

Erasing history because it offends you is a 7th century mentality no matter who is doing it.


85 posted on 11/21/2016 5:51:44 AM PST by Emergencyawesome
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To: DoodleDawg
On April 15, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln sent a telegram to Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin requesting that the Commonwealth supply part of the initial 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion. Magoffin, a Southern sympathizer, replied "President Lincoln, Washington, D.C. I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister Southern states. B. Magoffin" Instead, most Kentuckians favored John J. Crittenden's position that the Commonwealth should act as a mediator between the two sides. To that end, both houses of the General Assembly passed declarations of neutrality, a position officially declared by Governor Magoffin on May 20, 1861.
86 posted on 11/21/2016 5:52:41 AM PST by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: yoe

They’re just trying to construct a pretend history....no different than the Taliban.


87 posted on 11/21/2016 5:55:35 AM PST by xzins
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To: Godebert; DoodleDawg

Magoffin advocated neutrality but chose alliance to the union when the confederates invaded in the fall of 1861.


88 posted on 11/21/2016 6:15:31 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Godebert
Kentucky was also a slave state.

So where Missouri, Delaware, and Maryland. What's your point?

89 posted on 11/21/2016 6:29:25 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Godebert
On April 15, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln sent a telegram to Kentucky governor Beriah Magoffin requesting that the Commonwealth supply part of the initial 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion. Magoffin, a Southern sympathizer, replied "President Lincoln, Washington, D.C. I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister Southern states. B. Magoffin" Instead, most Kentuckians favored John J. Crittenden's position that the Commonwealth should act as a mediator between the two sides. To that end, both houses of the General Assembly passed declarations of neutrality, a position officially declared by Governor Magoffin on May 20, 1861.

Said neutrality being broken by Leonidas Polk's invasion and occupation of Columbus on September 3rd, driving Kentucky back into the Union fold.

90 posted on 11/21/2016 6:31:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Excellent history D.D...Thanks...


91 posted on 11/21/2016 8:59:01 AM PST by yoe (I am getting my country back! Hooray!)
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To: rustbucket

Ping


92 posted on 11/28/2016 10:45:21 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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