Posted on 04/02/2018 7:23:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot was legal.
Now it's on the verge of another first.
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
"Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century.
Peters, who heads the Arcata-based Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, called McKinley a proponent of "settler colonialism" that "savaged, raped and killed."
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against their very existence.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."-George Santayana
McKinley to start..................
The Klan corrupted the flag and it’s cause. If you look at photos of the massive Klan march in DC in 1920’s, they were all carrying the Stars and Stripes, not a CBF to be seen.
Ding ding! There are lots of statues and monuments to tear down if we choose to go down this road. That very much includes Lincoln by the way. Just read 38 Nooses to see how he treated Native Americans.
This really isn’t about erasing ‘history’.
It’s about destroying American Culture and Capitalism............
No doubt at all...................
My grandparents used to say “ Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile”.
What about monuments of tribal leaders who committed genocide against neighboring tribes?
Were you at Lee Circle last summer?
Why not?
Civil war approaches.
While we’re at it. How about the way the Natives treated each other. I guess slavery and total war against women and children are ok if the Natives did it. The Lakota Sioux warred with the Creek, Plains and Blackfeet. In the East, the Iroquois warred with multiple tribes on almost a yearly basis.
All actions by Natives are none of whitey’s business...........
Nowadays it’s, “Give them a centimeter and they’ll take a kilometer.”...............
Its very interesting how a very small group of motivated radicals with extreme positions can nonetheless impose their will on the majority.
Be forewarned though, I'm a middle-aged white guy. That means I've been around long enough to have come up with a fairly comprehensive list of things I don't like - and of course a number of things I'd like to promote, I'm not by nature a negative person. Now, I've been keeping my list of gripes to myself for the most part, not voicing them to too many people, and certainly not trying to impose my preferences or priorities on anyone else. That's the other thing about being a middle-aged guy - I've been around long enough, and was raised not to be a self-centered little s**t so I actually recognize other people are into other things. There's that saying "different strokes for different folks..." Not sure if my generation coined that or not...
But apparently we're abandoning all pretense of real diversity, tolerance, and simply minding our own business. Just now the so-called "liberals" seem dedicated to imposing their will, agenda, and outlook upon everyone else. So, when's my turn to impose my will libtards? I mean, if you really are all about acceptance and tolerance, then you have to accept, tolerate, even celebrate my views too, right?
Because I was in Alachua, Tallahassee and Olustee.
Elizabeth Warren, AKA Pocahontas, is bonafide Hunkpoopa Sue ( a related lefty tribe of the Hunkpappa Sioux.)
It is people like her to redefine history and their own genes in order to alter history and achieve liberal fascist historic justice.
When they come to your town , what will you do? Stay home or fight them in the streets?
If we these bastards keep playing, it is going to be all the statues of founding fathers, explorers, and statesmen.
We need start saying “No” and destroying any politicians or judges who try to go counter to this.
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