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Pastor Wants Presidents’ Names Removed From Washington, Jackson Parks Over Ties To Slavery
Chicago CBS local ^ | 08/16/2017

Posted on 08/16/2017 9:05:49 AM PDT by DFG

A Chicago pastor has asked the Emanuel administration to remove the names of two presidents who owned slaves from parks on the South Side, saying the city should not honor slave owners in black communities.

A bronze statue of George Washington on horseback stands at the corner of 51st and King Drive, at the northwest entrance to Washington Park.

Bishop James Dukes, pastor of Liberation Christian Center, said he wants the statue gone, and he wants George Washington’s name removed from the park.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; dixie; dukes; founders; george; jackson; purge; searchworks; washington
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To: DFG
He said black people should be able to decide who is and is not honored in their communities.

well, sorry, Pastor dude, but, it's not 'their' community. It's America's community. Get it straight. And besides, the Mexican population outnumbers you now so, let's go see if Washington bothers them, or the Asians - and we'll get back to you.

21 posted on 08/16/2017 9:24:19 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: DFG

I am finding this topic not only boring but childish, ridiculous, and a major distraction from something government must really not want us to know about!!!!

WHAT’S UP????


22 posted on 08/16/2017 9:24:32 AM PDT by browniexyz
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To: Dilbert San Diego

[[What the heck is going on behind the scenes to drive all this?]]

The Evil One is destroying this nation via his pals the liberals


23 posted on 08/16/2017 9:25:00 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: dfwgator

How about

Ultimate
Slaveholders of
America


24 posted on 08/16/2017 9:25:09 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: DFG

The Leftards had better hurry and re-name Washington state, Washington DC, etc. Can’t wait for the progressive Orwellian Utopia!!

Also, going to have to wipe out the names Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, et al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves


25 posted on 08/16/2017 9:27:23 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: DFG

The Leftards had better hurry and re-name Washington state, Washington DC, etc. Can’t wait for the progressive Orwellian Utopia!!

Also, going to have to wipe out the names Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, et al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves


26 posted on 08/16/2017 9:27:23 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: DFG

Can we kill every black person named Washington or Jackson, in the spirit of this purge?


27 posted on 08/16/2017 9:29:13 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: DFG

As someone else pointed out on this forum; why don’t these pols and activist groups put this to the ballot in their state?
Let the voters of the state decide and not some narrow far left group decide if this countries historical landmarks and monuments get destroyed.

Who the hell are THEY to decide for everyone?


28 posted on 08/16/2017 9:30:32 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Told you, they will not stop until they have removed every symbol of our history.

They won't stop even then. The demonic left is insatiably wicked.

29 posted on 08/16/2017 9:30:42 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: I want the USA back

Harriet Tubman


30 posted on 08/16/2017 9:32:00 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: DFG

You’d better remove those democrats too... they were not your friends before they were your “friends”.

Ya can’t make people like you or accept you by force and threats. Ever since obama, when I’m in traffic, I wont let a black person cut in... the answer is NO!
And this stuff they are doing ... is making it easy to really dislike them and ship them OUT!

I appreciate our President not afraid to say the truth!!


31 posted on 08/16/2017 9:33:41 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: fwdude

Along with their supports in the GOP. Rubio saying on twitter it was okay to violently assault people who are labeled racists and white supremacist. I know they were there in VA, but so were average people who weren’t a part of any group who were against this destruction of history.


32 posted on 08/16/2017 9:34:26 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: DFG

I think its easier to remove one pastor.


33 posted on 08/16/2017 9:34:41 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: DFG
pastor of Liberation Christian Center

Liberation = commie front.

34 posted on 08/16/2017 9:38:32 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Rurudyne

‘Tolerating nitwits only makes for suffering more nitwits.’

we are so blessed to have had agronomists in an entire regional sector of the country who just couldn’t figure out how to field a properly sufficient workforce without resorting to enslavement of some underdeveloped populations, and then denying them means of assimilating...


35 posted on 08/16/2017 9:38:46 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: DFG

How about Grant Park in Chicago? U.S. Grant’s family kept their slaves longer than Robert E Lee did.


36 posted on 08/16/2017 9:40:59 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: DFG

Since we’re on the subject of correcting the sins of slavery. Shouldn’t we return all the stolen descendants of slaves to their rightful homeland? I’m pretty sure there’s nothing there to remind them of their ancestors history in this horrible nation of racists.


37 posted on 08/16/2017 9:41:01 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: browniexyz

‘I am finding this topic not only boring but childish, ridiculous’

ridiculous and childish, ok, but you find efforts amounting to ethnic cleansing to be boring...?


38 posted on 08/16/2017 9:44:46 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: dfwgator

Doesn’t the C already stand for Corruption?


39 posted on 08/16/2017 9:50:09 AM PDT by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: IrishBrigade

Sorry, but the facts are that black people managed to prosper even with segregation. It has been decades since mobs of rioting whites burned down a black community and yet they are still getting burned down.

The cause is similar, “nitwits”, race radicals who think having no history because history offends them is a good idea just as others think their anger and fewwings justifies them harming the communities and the innocent law abiding black folks who live there.

Screw them.


40 posted on 08/16/2017 9:50:14 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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