Posted on 08/17/2017 4:11:16 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray expressed his displeasure in a Confederate statue Lake View Cemetery on Wednesday. Now, on Thursday, he’s officially asking for its removal. That and the removal of the Lenin statue in Fremont.
RANTZ: Murray should mind his own business
See his entire statement:
“In the last few days, Seattleites have expressed concerns and frustration over symbols of hate, racism and violence that exist in our city. Not only do these kinds of symbols represent historic injustices, their existence causes pain among those who themselves or whose family members have been impacted by these atrocities. We should remove all these symbols, no matter what political affiliation may have been assigned to them in the decades since they were erected. This includes both confederate memorials and statues idolizing the founder of the authoritarian soviet regime. Both are on private property, but I believe the confederate memorial at Lake View Cemetery and the Lenin statue in Fremont should be removed. We should never forget our history, but we also should not idolize figures who have committed violent atrocities and sought to divide us based on who we are or where we came from.”
At least he’s being consistent. Seattle has confederate statues? Washington wasn’t even a state during a Civil War.
This is really getting absurd. Liberals are all about symbolism instead of dealing with the problem.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy put up monuments to the Confederate dead all over the country back in the 1920s.
Why have it removed? Free speech goes both ways, and it is kind of kitschy.
Charges were dropped when he dropped out of next election if I am not mistaken.
I live only 35 miles from Seattle and that place may as well be Mars.
Seattle is boil on our ass.
Seattle earned his reputation at a young age as a leader and a warrior, ambushing and defeating groups of tribal enemy raiders coming up the Green River from the Cascade foothills, and attacking the Chimakum and the S'Klallam tribes living on the Olympic Peninsula. Like many of his contemporaries, he owned slaves captured during his raids.
That thing is always getting defaced somehow.
The snowflakes haven’t figured out that history has a lot of dirty hands—folks of every kind did some seriously nasty stuff.
If they want virtue I would tell them to visit Uranus. :-)
Honestly, Congress (lazy scum) should pass a bill that alternating public landscape should be by referendum only. These left-wing whackos are ruling by decree, a single man making these decisions? Shouldn’t it at least be state congress?
Autocratic rule and mob rule, that’s what we’re reduced to.
It's named for a slave owner!
Look it up, fool!
They had also better change the name of their city, as Seattle is named after Chief Seattle who was a slave owner.
Seattle might not exist without the Confederacy. Professor Mercer transported Yankee war widows there to reduce the large male/female mismatch. The CSA was making Yankee war widows by the bushel basket and, thus, deserves recognition.
Nowadays, of course, a Mercer equivalent would be recruiting young boys.
Private property?
What would Lenin think?
Hmm... on the one hand, I’m not sure about the whole removal of Confederate icons, since it is ultimately part of our country’s history for better or for worse. But on the other hand, I do like the idea of removing Lenin’s statue this time around, especially considering that honoring a mass-murdering dictator is NOT good by any stretch, and besides which, he wasn’t even part of American history in the first place, so he wouldn’t really belong here anyway.
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