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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

Tucker Carlson asked his guest last night...

How about removing Robert Byrd’s name from Post Offices?

Her reply... In time

This is just the beginning folks. At some point they will start demanding the removal of white people.


41 posted on 08/16/2017 9:53:51 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I don't have a license to kill, but I do have a learners permit.)
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To: DFG

What’s going to happen when people start destroying black monuments? where does they escalate to, next?


42 posted on 08/16/2017 9:54:54 AM PDT by unsycophant
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To: DFG

CBS radio featured an interview with this Towering Intellect.

You could understand maybe every third or fourth word.


43 posted on 08/16/2017 9:56:32 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: DFG
Bishop James Dukes is a racist and a bigot. Away with him; he has nothing to say.
44 posted on 08/16/2017 9:59:00 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: DFG

Watching the country die by a 1000 cuts is agonizing. We are helpless unless we push back hard but we won’t. Most Americans are too busy working their butts off to stay afloat. The left has nothing to lose and everything to gain. We knew the left would come back with a vengeance and it comes via our flank. We have not seen anything yet.


45 posted on 08/16/2017 9:59:05 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: DFG

Pastor Wants Presidents’ Names Removed From Washington, Jackson Parks Over Ties To Slavery

So I suppose this racist would prefer Treyvon Dr.


46 posted on 08/16/2017 10:10:51 AM PDT by JayAr36 (No honest person gets rich in politics.)
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To: DFG

Put a statue of Booker T. Washington in the park. Continue to call it Washington Park, but people offended by George Washington can think of it as Booker T. Washington Park.


47 posted on 08/16/2017 10:14:43 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: DFG

We should also remove the names of those who beat their wives, beat their kids, beat their horses, kicked their dogs, drank, took drugs, cursed, had sex outside marriage (especially with interns), ever had a traffic ticket, made prank phone calls, ever told a lie or chopped down cherry trees and were just plain disagreeable.


48 posted on 08/16/2017 10:23:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Thankfully, America was founded upon Islamic ideals. /s


49 posted on 08/16/2017 10:26:27 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Lincoln is getting bad press this morning. Perhaps demote him to the $1000 bill. This is the perfect time to eliminate the penny killing two birds with one stone. Heck, might as well eliminate all currency and go with implants. Or would that cause a rise in chopped off hands?


50 posted on 08/16/2017 10:30:39 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Da Coyote

Here is one Civil War leaders view on race, as expressed in a public debate.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing
about in any way the social and political equality of the white and
black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of
making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold
office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition
to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black
races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together
on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot
so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of
superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of
having the superior position assigned to the white race.” - Abraham Lincoln in his 4th debate with Douglas

They should rename Lincoln Park!!


51 posted on 08/16/2017 10:32:36 AM PDT by MMaschin (The difference between strategy and tactics!)
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To: Enchante

Oops. Can’t have that. George Orwell was white.


52 posted on 08/16/2017 10:33:34 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: rawcatslyentist

I’ll chip in for a couple of one way tickets back to Africa.

The only honest thing Whoopi has ever said was that she’s glad she’s here instead of Africa. She saw too much on a trip there and that blacks are still selling slaves (uh, hello!).


53 posted on 08/16/2017 10:38:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DFG

The ugly zealotry of revisionists reject truth for hate filled opinion. History is not a blank canvas upon which we paint our Utopian vision. It is a tapestry of good and bad, failure and victory, which defines who we are.
When we deny the sin in our history we cut off our nose and lose the ability to smell the stink of our own rancid actions.
Confusion abounds. The attempt to eradicate history is riddled with bodies.
The fools who deem their desecrations morally imperative have no inkling of the horrors they unlease. Their own precious icons will be next on the chopping block.
One cannot erase history and denegrate ancient heroes without consequence. The price for these atrocities is to repeat them endlessly.


54 posted on 08/16/2017 11:26:19 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: DFG

on the other hand, I’m offended by all the MLk Jr streets

The signs must come down. He is racist by definition


55 posted on 08/16/2017 11:30:41 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: IrishBrigade

Boring in the sense that the media is pounding on a topic 9 out of 10 Americans just don’t care about — statues!!!

The ethnic cleansing part is so alarming I am nearly in denial.

I guess Germany should bulldoze Auschwitz and Bittburg Cemetery while they are at it?


56 posted on 08/16/2017 3:07:49 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: bgill

Not so much the chopped off hands as the Michael Jackson Ferriday glove look would be the norm.


57 posted on 08/16/2017 6:22:41 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You take the Washingtons, I’ll take the Jeffersons and Franklins ...


58 posted on 08/17/2017 4:22:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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