Exactly!
Posted on 08/14/2017 5:30:30 PM PDT by davikkm
Protesters ripped down a monument of a Confederate soldier Monday evening. The monument has stood in Durham County, NC since 1924.
WNCN reports:
A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
Around 7:10 p.m. a woman climbed the statue using a ladder and attached a rope around the statue.
Moments later, The crowd pulled on the rope and the statue fell.
In 1924, the Confederate statue was dedicated to Durham.
Engraved on the front of the monument is “The Confederate States of America.”
Above it, is a statue representing a soldier who fought in the civil war.
“It needs to be removed,” Loan Tran, an organizer, said earlier Monday. “These Confederate statues in Durham, in North Carolina, all across the country.”
There are similar monuments in several cities around North Carolina.
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Somebody on Twitter said they burned the state flag after they raised the anitfa flag.
Too bad that a few hundred pounds of karma couldn’t fall some of these nut cases
Gay Viet Cong ? Deport his ass back.
I originally saw it on Twitter also. Antifa removed the Hennepin County Minnesota flag. Burned it. And raised the Antifa flag. It’s not going to just be confederate statues. They will eventually demand the American flag removed from all public buildings. This is just going to get worse if it is not stopped.
You would have to be a native of the former Confederate states to understand. A union held together by main force really isn’t much of a union....
Exactly!
In Bamiyan Afghanistan there were two Buddha statues carved into a mountain. Why did the western world, which isn’t exactly chock full of Buddhists, object to the Taliban’s destruction of those statues when there haven’t been even Afghan Buddhists in that area in living memory? Why did anyone go through the trouble of trying to restore them?
Because it’s part of the story of mankind.
Why do western archaeologists weep over the loss of Babylonian cultural artifacts when Babylon was notorious for its religious sacrifice of infants - placing them on a bronze basin under which was kindled a fire to cook to death? Because it’s part of the story of mankind.
Why do historians express sadness over the razing and plowing over of Mississippian temple and burial mounds, most in cities that were long empty before Columbus even arrived... when the people who built the mounds practiced human sacrifice and weeping wives and relatives of chiefs were strangled to go with them into the afterlife? Because it’s part of the story of mankind.
In St Louis there’s a statue of French King Louis IX of France. He was a reformer who banned trial by ordeal and introduced the concept of presumption of innocence.
But he was also a crusader.
Now picture this: in the interest of racial and religious harmony, some leftwing nut group linked with muslim activists decides it’s time to pull down Crusader King Louis IX’s rather handsome equestrian statue, rather than just keep stealing his sword, which is what dingbats usually do to it, and leave a vandalized empty pedestal there on which they might or might not propose to erect some abomination of their own?
Should we shrug our shoulders and just allow offended people to destroy anything they find offensive?
What if a bunch of offended Chicago communists [also known as Chicago Democrats] decide that Stan the Ma Musial’s statue offends them whenever Cubs fans visit St Louis and demand it too be hauled down?
It sounds ridiculous, but then ten years ago if anyone suggested local governments would allow mobs of communists to destroy community works of art, or we’d end up with a senate intel committee permitting a Pakistani money laundering ring to operate freely in the capitol, or our military would be buying sex change operations for mental cases... who would have believed it?
It is Vietnamese. I spent a year there 50 years ago.
Destroy all evidence of them evil slave holders and eventually slavery will have never happened.....then what will they do?
...and they add a racist hand gesture for good measure. Is this the new racism?
Donut patrol shows up after the fact.
There are people alive today whose near ancestors died in that war. It’s close enough in history to have very real meaning and impact upon families - I heard second-hand family stories about it myself, when I was small.
My great grandfather ran away and enlisted at age 14 to try to find his oldest brother, they hadn’t heard from him in months. Never found him, he was gut shot and died in Point Lookout, MD as a prisoner of war.
My grandmother told of her grandfather on his deathbed, demanding to be put into his Confederate uniform, and raving that he was ‘going after the Yankees’.
People who think that the war was only about slavery, and that remembrance of it can only be racist, are either intellectually lazy, or intellectually dishonest.
Of course it wasn't only about slavery.
Regardless, what the PC crowd is doing right now with respect to these statues and monuments is absolutely shameful.
Military leaders have always been distinguished in a way which is separate from the policies their leaders espoused. They were soldiers following orders, and in most cases, that should suffice to distinguish them from any bad ideas which their war might have been founded in.
This is why even German soldiers and officers from WW I and WW II still garner a measure of respect for doing their jobs well, and from the prowess of the common soldier to the tactical and strategic genius of their commanding officers leaders.
Confederate soldiers, by and large, weren't fighting for slavery; in their minds they were fighting for their homelands, as well as the concept of States' Rights. The States' Rights cause simply was pinned to the wrong foundation.
Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and other Confederate military heroes were universally respected by both North and South for their superb qualities as military professionals.
The people who are leading the charge to obliterate history couldn't be more misguided. It's a testament to the deplorable education system they are brought up within. In destroying history which they don't like, they are performing a disservice even to their own history—for much of that will also fade into obscurity along with the "giants" who are being taken down. It is through these larger than life figures that we gain entry into the intricate and highly informative details and nuances of these conflicts.
Everything becomes so PC, so "cut and dried" nowadays, that people don't even learn real history. And this is true for all points of view regarding a given conflict.
Regaining control of the American education system is another critical aspect of making America great again...
How many American soldiers died in Vietnam for this ass clown to come here and take over?
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