Posted on 06/25/2015 7:59:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the nation debates the placement of Confederate battle flags, Atlanta Democratic U.S. Rep. and civil rights legend John Lewis said it’s high time to take a look at the statues under the U.S. Capitol dome, starting with one of Georgia’s.
“I think it should move, be removed,” Lewis said in an interview Wednesday. “I think there will be other symbols, not just from Georgia but other parts of our country [that are removed]. … It’s the beginning of a movement that will help us move toward the realization that we’re one people, we’re one nation and we have to be sensitive to our own history.”
Crawfordville native Alexander H. Stephens served in Georgia’s legislature and the U.S. Congress as a Whig, a Democrat and a Constitutional Unionist. After the state seceded, he was selected as the vice president of the Confederacy, even though he had been a staunch unionist.
In March 1861, Stephens delivered what is known as the “Cornerstone Speech” in Savannah, laying out the reasons for secession. According to a local newspaper account, it included this ugly passage:
“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.”(continued)
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And how about Bobby Byrd too?
Washington’s Monument is next.
So 12% want the 72% deported? That doesn’t sound like it would work out well for the smaller group.
John isn’t being bold enough. Take down “The White House”.
Do it now John!
Time for a backlash.
Weren’t all the buildings in the district (save for the modern ones) built by slave labor?
Sure....why not, but we tried like heck to damage his creds may times over with no result. In fact, nothing we do results in anything because the media runs interference when it comes to their own.
I thought I would change to Woodrow Wilson, who re-segregated the offices of the US government after Republicans desegregated it and opened it up to blacks. He reversed it and expressed the sentiment that segregation was good for everyone.
Maybe King O will negotiate us all out of here to another country as part of the FTA
It is all going to backfire.
All of the idiots that voted for Obama are going to slowly sense their world going away. They didn’t ask for that.
Now watch the racism spike like levels not seen since 1875.
He doesn’t want to let us go until we’re destroyed.
Might be the best idea....It’s been burned and looted before...by the Brits....soooooo.......
I’m Ok with it..
If we are going to eliminate anything to do with the Civil War, then I want everything with Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant gone too, oh, and the words “Slave” and “Slavery” need to go too, we can’t have our heritage, YOU don’t get to still be a damn victim.
As Booker T Washington has stated
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
The rest of his statements of wisdom are well known.
Well, what is the root of the perceived problem here?
I think ends in genocide.
I don’t think whites being deported is what they want.
When they’re done removing all the signs of any kind of rebillion, perhaps we can begin to see what the new reeducation camps will be like to make us all “one people”.
After all the War of Northern Aggression was about crony capitalism versus free capitalism.
The gulag and the execution pits. If we allow it.
I’m not familiar with it. It probably was.
Of course it burned down.
The modern versions of all the buildings used marble transacted down a spine through East TN.
He really wants Stephens replaced by himself, but he’ll settle for Jimmuh Carter.
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