Group Asks For State Capitol Statue To Be Removed

WKYT TV (CBS-27, Lexington, Kentucky) ^ | 5/9/2003

[freedombrigade]

A group of black organizations is pushing to have a statue of a Confederate hero removed from the State Capitol Rotunda. And they're asking that candidates for governor choose sides on the issue.

The statue of Jefferson Davis sits near four other statues on the rotunda. One of them is Abraham Lincoln.

One former NAACP official called the statue offensive. Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Jackson said she thinks the statue should be removed and replaced with a statue of a famous Kentucky woman.

[freedombrigade]

I can't believe Rebecca Jackson is sucking around after the black and feminist vote. She's weak.

[freedombrigade]

Here's a poll on the issue:

http://www.gopusa.com/kentucky/index.shtml

[Grand Old Partisan]

I have trouble with a statue of any Democrat, not just Jefferson Davis, being in a state capitol.

[SoDak]

Not liking history is not a reason to either deny or destroy history. I find the idea disgusting.

[Delphster]

Rebecca Jackson said she thinks the statue should be removed and replaced with a statue of a famous Kentucky woman.
How about Mrs Jefferson Davis?

[freedombrigade]

That's not the issue, you have a bunch of black Democrats stirring this issue. It's the PC crap that the issue. If Jeff Davis would have lived today, he'd been a conservative Republican.

Now, you have this GOP governors' candidate sucking around after the blacks on the Democrat plantation in Louisville and the feminists to try and court favor with them on this issue. I'm ashamed that she has fell for this PC liberal agenda.

[cricket]

These groups will never be mollified. . .

. . .time for some real backbone and for the little Marxists to be delivered a big and final 'no/nada'. . .their agenda is a never-ending/never-ceasing; ever-unraveling, ugly story with no good guys. . .and no happy endings.

[freedombrigade]

I'm in favor of removing both Abe Lincoln and Daniel Boone, because they both engaged in genocide of the Native Americans.

BARF OUT LOUD...SEE HOW RIDICULOUS THIS WHOLE CRAP IS...

[Grand Old Partisan]

Not even close. Jefferson Davis, who today would be in the Robert Byrd wing of the Democratic Party, believed 100% in the foremost principle of the Democratic Party, then and now: the subjugation and degradation of black people.

In contrast, the foremost principle of the Republican Party, then and now, is the Constitution of the United States.

Jefferson Davis, Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore -- Democrats
Abraham Lincoln, Ronand Reagan, George W. Bush -- Republicans

[just me]

It just never stops does it?
Some will not quit until the future generations believe that America was founded by African Americans and the Civil War was Liberals vs Conservatives.

[freedombrigade]

I would suggest that you read Davis' writings on states' rights and other conservative issues. The 19th Century GOP favored a large central government, high tariffs and protectionism and were beholden to the monied interests of the time and sold favors (i.e. they were in the back pockets of the railroads).

[spodefly]

Do you favor removing the statue of Jefferson Davis from the State Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort?

Yes
-- 0%

No
-- 100%

Don't Care
-- 0%

[Octar]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Jackson said she thinks the statue should be removed and replaced with a statue of a famous Kentucky woman.

Isn't Aunt Jemima a famous Kentucky woman?

[reelfoot]

I demand all streets, schools, etc. named for Martin Luther King located in the commonwealth of Kentucky be renamed, as I find such symbolism to be offensive.

[herkbird]

I believe the carving on the face of Stone Mountain in Georgia should be removed along with the carvings at Mt. Rushmore. We cannot have slave owners portrayed on such carvings. Please help me get all the historical creations that are now injuring are most sensitive, removed once and for all. I feel their pain Man, oh how I feel the pain. Sarcasm!!!!

[TheWillardHotel]

I don't live anywhere near Kentucky. However, this
issue goes beyond that state.

This is and issue worth fighting for. This proposed act
is a great dishonor to the history of this nation,
and its war dead.

Frankly, the passions worth expressing and acting upon
are not allowed to be described in this forum.

Here is a quote:

"When the nation's history is poorly taught in schools,
ignored by the young, and rejected by qualified elders,
awareness of the tradition consists only in wanting to
destroy it."

--Jacques Barzun

[Grand Old Partisan]

The political writings of a traitorous Democrat do not interest me, nor should they interest any patriotic Republican.

[reelfoot]

Those who oppose the centralization of government power should be read and honored.

[Dr Warmoose]

I would suggest that you read Davis' writings on states' rights and other conservative issues.

Amen to that. The party of Lincoln was one steeped in patronage and the principles of mercantilism. The Republicans also gave us the most shameful spectacle of post-war governance in the evil and depraved policies of Reconstruction. Also, didn't Lincoln have a problem with dissent and effectively canceled out the 1st Amendment by imprisoning publishers and confiscating their printing presses if they dared to disagree? Didn't Lincoln also suspend habeus corpus and threaten with arrest and incarceration politicians who were tolerant of Southern separation? Lincoln also ordered the bloody slaughter of Northern free-men who weren't eager to be conscripted to fight Lincoln's War to kill their southern brothers. The republican president also gave Sherman the green-light to engage in Total War that featured burning the fields, slaughtering the livestock, raping the women, and looting their households. The assassination couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Contrary to myth, the Confederacy was far more centralized and socialistic than was the Union then or in many ways the United States today, notwithstanding all that rebel blather about sttaes rights -- price controls, rationing, internal passports, government-owned industries, the CSA Attorney General deciding all complaints from state governments (!!!), censorship, hanging several thousand people for the "crime" of loyalty to the U. S. Government, production and delivery directives, and oh yes, slavery.