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First it was Confederate monuments. Now statues offensive to Native Americans are poised to topple
www.latimes.com ^ | Apr 01, 2018 | 4:00 AM | By Jaweed Kaleem

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: dixie; liberalfascism; purge
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Who didn't see this coming?.........................
1 posted on 04/02/2018 7:23:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Remember: Michelle Obama started this during the 2012 campaign that Barak had a lot of work to do to change our history and tradition.


2 posted on 04/02/2018 7:27:06 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

We kept telling folks, but the Lincoln Lovers cheered them on.


3 posted on 04/02/2018 7:28:34 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: antidemoncrat

It won’t stop until they expunge the Founding Fathers.


4 posted on 04/02/2018 7:29:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

Leave these statues along. Fire water or fire sticks. Those are your choices.


5 posted on 04/02/2018 7:30:01 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: antidemoncrat

Eventually Lady Liberty herself will have to be torn down, because it ‘offends’ Communists...................


6 posted on 04/02/2018 7:30:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Red Badger

A little sopranos. Beware … Language

https://youtu.be/jBD61skoMk8


7 posted on 04/02/2018 7:31:32 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Red Badger

So, when does Mount Rushmore get dynamited?


8 posted on 04/02/2018 7:32:00 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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In due time.....................


9 posted on 04/02/2018 7:32:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Red Badger

When is capitulation enough for liberals?

Stupid question. NEVER

Better question though, for how long can liberals remain perpetually angry?

We should try to find out and totally break them.


10 posted on 04/02/2018 7:32:56 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Red Badger

Mount Rushmore is on the list......mark my words.


11 posted on 04/02/2018 7:34:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: Red Badger

Next, Christian and Jewish statues and icons will fall.
Then The Founders and COTUS icons will fall.
Then Lady Liberty will be replaced with a hooded muzzie woman with open arms.


12 posted on 04/02/2018 7:34:41 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: dfwgator

Or people of European descent.


13 posted on 04/02/2018 7:35:01 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: antidemoncrat
The Alaska legislature officially asked the US Govt to change the name of Mt McKinley in 1975.

Obama changed it to Denali in 2015.

14 posted on 04/02/2018 7:35:03 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Red Badger

This crap is ALL right out of the communist strategy list leaked many years ago. Gotta find it again, see which number(s) it hits.

That’s where ALL of this social justice crap originates.


15 posted on 04/02/2018 7:35:22 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Trump has implemented Supply Side Economics!!!)
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To: Vaquero

So much truth.

I miss those guys.


16 posted on 04/02/2018 7:35:52 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: antidemoncrat

DOWN WITH WHITEY!!!!!!!


17 posted on 04/02/2018 7:36:45 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html


18 posted on 04/02/2018 7:37:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Red Badger

OK, what are the statues????


19 posted on 04/02/2018 7:37:39 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: TallahasseeConservative
We sent a MAGA team to Lee Circle last summer...the ku klux klan told them to get lost.

Won't repeat that mistake again.

20 posted on 04/02/2018 7:37:39 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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