Posted on 05/22/2022 6:33:34 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Two Virginia schools which had been named after Confederate generals and soldiers and which changed their names in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, are to revert back to their earlier names.
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Exactly. It might also help if some few of OUR citizenry were willing to STAND UP to protect against the desecrations of present-day liars, weaklings, haters and fools.
I think…and hope…this will be happening in a lot of places.
I work in a historic cemetery in the South where we have VA markers for soldiers who served in the Confederate Army, which were approved by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower in 1951-52 as a sign of national reconciliation.
History is history. I think Andrew Jackson was horrible on many levels…pro-slavery, a cruel slave owner himself, anti-Indian, ani-Catholic, expansionist not matter whose legal property it was. He was terrible in his attacks on Spanish Florida, but he was successful and ended up being the first US Governor of Florida.
Not likeable…but nobody can deny that he had a major effect on the formation of the territory that is now the US, so whether you like him or not, you can’t erase him and just need to know and acknowledge the history, good and bad.
That said, his main defect is that he was the founder of the Democratic Party. So maybe let’s rethink this…LOL!
Born poor. Taught school. Military academy. Military experience. Not much slaveholding there.
He died before he was 40 and his last two years he was in the military.
So, we're talking about less than 10 years, maybe less than 5.
Too busy to check my library on this but Simon Legree he was not.
“Nikki” haley will be deeply saddened.
Excellent news. Finally, common sense returns. Hopefully, it will happen in other states as well.
Jackson ran a Sunday school for slaves. Educating them outside a rudimentary understanding of the scripture was not part of the curriculum. And while this was theoretically illegal, such Sunday schools were not uncommon in the south and Jackson's school was exceptional. When challenged with the law Jackson made it clear he would not close the school and nothing came of it.
University instructor. He led a middle-class existence and slavery was a middle-class institution. He owned one or two slaves prior to his second marriage, acquired some when he wed, and bought and sold more while married. Records show he owned as many as 10 at one time.
Too busy to check my library on this but Simon Legree he was not.
No, he wasn't. There is no reason to believe he was an abusive owner or misused his property. He was an average, Southern slaveowner. Again, so what?
Statues next please.
They changed the name of my high school (also the one my mother attended during WWI) from the innocuous “Central High” to “Cardozo Senior High School” many years ago. It irked a little, but “wotthehell, wotthehell, archie!”
Because they didn’t “lead the charge for slavery”. Leftist PC Revisionists who want to rewrite Southern history need to get over it.
I’m very happy
South bashers here
Pound sand
exactly. No more PC woke nonsense, and return to normalcy. The ghetto animals already got their millions from the liberal white guilters.
This is what happens when a state has GOP had a landslide in the top 3 levels of govt.
Yup. I’m not a Southerner but understand why they wanted to secede in the first place. To be left alone. Bring back the description of the “Civil War” to the original “War of Northern Aggression”.
Because they didn’t “lead the charge for slavery”. Leftist PC Revisionists who want to rewrite Southern history need to get over it.
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If you were the slave, would it matter it matter to you who lead the charge? If you were the Jew in Auschwitz, would you want to see a statue to a German WWII general just because he did not invent the Nazi party?
LOL!
Now if sports teams would revert back to their original names............., Washington REDSKINS, Cleveland INDIANS!
... History is history. I think Andrew Jackson was horrible on many levels…pro-slavery, a cruel slave owner himself, anti-Indian, ani-Catholic, expansionist not matter whose legal property it was. He was terrible in his attacks on Spanish Florida, but he was successful and ended up being the first US Governor of Florida.
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Good point. The issue here isn’t men like Andrew Jackson or George Washington, whose legitimate claims to fame do not involve fighting in a war to keep slavery. Their great accomplishments outside of slavery cannot be cancelled just because they owned slaves.
Do we also have to condemn Benjamin Franklin? He was perfectly happy to run ads from slaveowners for slave auctions and seeking to recapture escaped slaves in his newspapers.
How about George Washington? He owned literally hundreds of slaves.
Ditto Thomas Jefferson.
Ditto James Madison.
Ditto Patrick Henry
Ditto George Mason
Ditto John Hancock
Ditto Alexander Hamilton
Should we not honor any of those listed above? They were all slave owners.
the war wasn't about keeping slavery. Slavery was not threatened within the US.
The war wasn't about keeping slavery. Slavery was not threatened within the US.
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