Posted on 08/18/2017 5:21:03 PM PDT by RightGeek
Another day, yet another statue of a military hero is reportedly under fire. This figure astride a horse was vandalized with the spray-painted words "Tear It Down."
Who was this historical figure? General Lee? Stonewall Jackson? Nathan Bedford Forrest?
No, this was a figure who hails from the north.
Of France:
The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.Nah, I wouldn't be so sure.The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point.
Amy Kirk Duvoisin, the founder of the annual Joan of Arc parade that ceremonially pauses at the statue on the first day of Carnival season, says she's confused by the vandalism.
"Surely, people realize she's not related to American history," she said referring to the French icon.
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No, they don't. And stop calling me Shirley.
Wasn’t he over Macho Grande?
lol
Oh dear, you may actually be right on that
Well, there was that whole Beatles being the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse thingy.
Now we know it was actually Obama, Hillary, Lynch and Holder.
(j/k on that last part but it ain’t completely ridiculous in some respects....)
Is anyone on board an historian?
Shoot we might as well direct them towards water! Away from populated areas!
He says he’s ill and would like to see a doctor because he defaced a statue that was completely unrelated to anything American.
Probably mistook her for a Confederate field nurse.
What's next?
CAIR has offically announced support and encouragement of this democrat party position.
With an average IQ of 85, do you think these people know anything about Madame Defarge, Revolutionary France, a Gregorian calendar or Year Zero?
So why are they being given the power to destroy?? Ask your politician.
[Year Zero?]
Jerry: Since there was no year zero, your party will be 1-year late and and therefore, extremely lame.
Newman: !
(uh that’s one year EARLY Jerry)
The DUmmies probably thought she fought for the Confederacy.
I heard General Lee actually looked a lot like Joan of Arc.
That’s why he grew the beard.
evil is showin g its face.....
I guess not, but this goes to new lows! Holy cow.
More evidence (as if that was needed) that this is about bringing down Amercian society, not about racism, or whatever they’re calling it.
Of course!
And we should change the name of the city of Chicago (where I grew up). I believe it was based on a Native American name that means either smelly onion or smelly swamp. :) I can't remember exactly now.
But naming a city after a Native American term is clearly cultural appropriation!
Who is triggered by that?
What losers we have in the country.
“it’s a person on a horse...it must be confederate.”
Now we will have to listen to the BS about Jackson again.
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