Posted on 07/13/2020 10:40:19 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
On 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper took a deep dive into the debate over the removal of Confederate monuments.
Cooper sat down with Mayor Levar Stoney of Richmond, Virginia.
"The monuments are just a symbol of the effort to ensure African Americans stayed, maybe not in physical bondage, but in bondage in political and economically in this country and in this city," said Stoney, who added, "Those who chose to erect those monuments, and the figures who are glorified in those monuments, they made some serious attempts to ensure that people who look like me would never hold any political office, ever, in Virginia."
"It is, for me, the greatest example of nostalgia masquerading as history. It's the fake news of their time," stated Stoney.
Cooper also sat down with former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu who in 2017 made the controversial decision to remove four Confederate monuments, and shared with Cooper the dangerous risks that came with it.
While Cooper described the scene as looking "like a military operation," that construction crews wore bullet proof helmets and vests, and police snipers were stationed on rooftops, Landrieu shared that it was impossible to find a local company that would take on the job. "When we put the thing out to bid, the one contractor that showed up had his life threatened. He had his car bombed," revealed Landrieu. "His car was actually fire-bombed. Death threats were coming in."
Landrieu did eventually find a contractor out of state to take down the monuments.
"In a city I represent, that's 67% African American, to have a young African American girl pass by that statue and look at it every day, I ask myself, 'Am I really preparing for her a really good future?"
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Is melon label a new FR code for molon labe?
R u series? Clam Down? ( : >)
Slavery predates the nation. It was imposed upon us by our masters the British. We had to solve the dilemma ourselves. But I agree with your sentiment, sometimes referred to as “We shoulda picked our own damn cotton”.
Or Buchanan for that matter.
“Is melon label a new FR code for [molon labe]?”
My iPad auto corrected to “melon label” and I left it. I found it amusing and not completely obscure, so I left it.
How do we nominate this to FR lexicon status? ( : >)
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