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Confederate base names stir tensions over America's dark past
BBC ^
| 11 June 2020
| Jonathan Marcus
Posted on 06/11/2020 8:18:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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Says the former Colonial Empire.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’m a Yankee who was fortunate enough to live most of my adult life immersed in the history of this great Commonwealth of Virginia.
I have donated thousands to preserve battlefields all over the country.
I take this tyrannical Taliban-like history erasing personally.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:21:41 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
These reruns bore me. “New intensity”... it’s the same garbage from 2015 and 2017.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I was told by someone years ago who traveled to Europe extensively that if I wanted to see racism, go to Europe.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:23:39 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:24:08 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
And then there are the hardcore right-wing and racist militias, who freely use the symbols of the Confederacy to symbolise their own cause.Oh, what BS!
Where? All about 10 people.
I wonder why the Left makes such a boogeyman about so-called Right-wing militias while actual live, real-time Left wing Antifa militias are out and about making actual autonomous zones in the heart of our cities.
Could the BBC be any less lame?
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:26:04 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
To: Alas Babylon!
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:26:33 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
To: Alas Babylon!
Where? All about 10 people.And half of them are FBI informants.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:27:04 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You mean like England’s “golden past?”
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Shall we get rid of the pictures of dead presidents on our currency too? Actually the currency itself is a symbol of discrimination. Why not just rid of wealth altogether? Lets just get rid of civilization.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:33:18 PM PDT
by
oldbrowser
(The government did not create the people. The people created the government)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
For over 150 years no one had a problem with battle flags, statues or military base names, until someone decided to make it a problem.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Tell me Brit, all about modern American oppression of blacks!
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:38:09 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:40:33 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“dark past”
Nope. No bias there.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:41:27 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of And justfact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
This is ALL coming right out of our universities, if we dont start taking back our education systems this will get worse we need to defund these universities PERIOD!!
To: oldbrowser
They were already supposed to supplant Jackson with PC Harriet Tubman this very year.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:42:55 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
You guys keep blaming colleges.
It is MUCH worse than that, it is insidiously long through all forced lower education. Never mind the parents who have these self-righteous views.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:45:08 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
IMO, these Leftists think they are striking at the heart of President Trump’s base destroying statues, history and names in the South. They are making stereotypical assumptions/generalizations about HIS base. They do not seem to realize just how many of us there are and where we are.
Sure hope people have some of the history hidden somewhere.
They are acting like pre WWII Germany.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Britain’s “dark past” was 20x worse. Ask a few ghosts of headless rulers.
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:52:27 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Caveat Emperor)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
A,ericas? How about democrats?
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posted on
06/11/2020 8:56:13 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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