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John Lewis: Take down Georgia’s U.S. Capitol statue of Confederate V.P.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | June 25, 2015 | Daniel Malloy

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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TOPICS: Georgia; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; georgia; racism
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To: eyedigress
All of the idiots that voted for Obama are going to slowly sense their world going away

No, they will never get enough liberalism. It's an addiction.

41 posted on 06/25/2015 8:45:47 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Chauncey Uppercrust

They don’t understand what they do and never will.


42 posted on 06/25/2015 8:47:12 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: GeronL

Bevin has killed any outside chance he had with all his recent liberalism.


43 posted on 06/25/2015 8:48:42 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Cold Heat

No, much worse now except for Vietnam.


44 posted on 06/25/2015 8:49:24 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many terrorists have we been lectured on tollorance and now they can pin one on a so called conservative and they get to unload.

Pray America is waking


45 posted on 06/25/2015 8:53:48 PM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These black activists and the white liberals supporting them remind me of the Taliban that destroyed the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan.


46 posted on 06/25/2015 8:55:05 PM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: jeffersondem

Excellent point.

Is Abe Lincoln next? Should we redesign the five dollar bill, destroy the Lincoln memorial?

There is no end to this madness. Lewis and others just want to use white guilt to assert more control over others.


47 posted on 06/25/2015 9:02:23 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: jeffersondem

There needs to be a purge, all right. But not of inanimate objects.
Our country has never seen the kind of division that will grow out of this tyranny. Mark my words.


48 posted on 06/25/2015 9:08:05 PM PDT by KGeorge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)
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To: KGeorge

Yes it will. Expect serious declines in many areas.

People are getting tired.


49 posted on 06/25/2015 9:09:38 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: eyedigress

I do. Where is our military?


50 posted on 06/25/2015 9:19:10 PM PDT by KGeorge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the whole Nation is to remove all remotely symbolic Civil War symbols, then fine... BUT, THERE HAS TO BE NO MORE MENTION OF SLAVERY EVER AGAIN... Since the premise is that reminders of the Civil War, are reminders of slavery... So they BOTH go equally.


51 posted on 06/25/2015 9:20:12 PM PDT by wdnhrse
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To: KGeorge

They are staying out of it.

I had a nice dinner in Fayettville, NC last night and Airborne is still Airborne.

The politics of B. Hussein Obama is not highly regarded.


52 posted on 06/25/2015 9:22:35 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

they have to change the name of the Democratic Party because all that slavery stuff, Jim Crow and the radical racism of the last 170 years was all done under the name of the Democratic Party.. all the Democrats who voted against the civil rights bills, lynching laws, and those who fought for segregation at anytime in their lives must be expunged from public mention as well as any public streets, buildings or statues that carry their names.. that takes out half the democrats in politics who ever existed.. and some pretty recent ones at that.. let’s start with Al Gore Sr.and Robert KKK Byrd


53 posted on 06/25/2015 9:23:52 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do they really want to take this to its logical conclusion ?


54 posted on 06/25/2015 10:54:46 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: Girlene

Fundamental transformation. It ends with Washington D.C. named after a known slave holder.


55 posted on 06/26/2015 12:37:12 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This man is a total buffoon. Just listen to him talk.
Trust me, he’s my congressman.

Only because of “government education” is a man like this elected.


56 posted on 06/26/2015 2:40:12 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
High Time !

not just time, but High Time !

I feel like I'm watching "who can be the biggest ass contest in America"

57 posted on 06/26/2015 3:02:37 AM PDT by onona (Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
Is that planned for

?

58 posted on 06/26/2015 3:22:09 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Theodore R.

Hopefully The Lord will say... forgive them for they know not what they do.


59 posted on 06/26/2015 7:10:07 AM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust (BLUE LIVES MATTER)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OK Lets get rid of the Democrat party for starters.


60 posted on 06/26/2015 8:11:09 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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