And let’s be sure to bulldoze the statues on Monument Ave. and the Confederate White House and Museum in Richmond. Just in case someone decides to be “offended.”
“The purge of Southern heritage continues”
There will be no purge now any more than after the Civil War. Admitting defeat, surrender, in no way can change the heart felt ideals held by free men.
Politicians that mistakenly think that they are winning are only stoking fires that won’t be soon put out. I, myself, twenty years ago, never thought of the Confederate flag in reference to slavery. It stood for a people who were willing to walk head on into enemy gunfire to defend their freedom from a tyrannical government.
The people who are doing this just aren’t smart enough to know that those who do such things will come to justice, although it be long delayed. The South surrendered but never died, and it won’t now either. These acts just make the resolve stronger, the ties more enduring, and the reasons the South had for going to war in the first place a lot clearer.
Six Flags over Texas has the Confederate Flag as a part of the history of the state. I wonder if they’ll excise history over this nonsense?
Stark raving insanity.
If these were going to be the terms of surrender, the confederacy might have gone down fighting to the last man.
They should just go ahead and vote the southern states out of the union. We’ll go peacefully and take our statues and flags with us.
Bevin should visit the Jefferson Davis memorial at Davis’ birthplace. The man in charge of the memorial is a great admirer of Jefferson Davis and proud of his own ancestor who was a Confederate officer. He is also a black man.
that’s ok , send old Jeff down to Mississippi . That’s where he come from anyway . There is a welcome home for him at Beauvoir . He don’t need to be where he not wanted .
And it won't end anytime soon. George Washington was a Southern slave owner, so we can't have our nation's capital named after him, now can we?
There are shops down the road from me in Appomattox that sell Confederate souvenirs. They have flags draped everywhere. I guess they’ll become obsolete soon.
OR, maybe central Virginians will maintain their grip on sanity and buy up their stock so fast they can’t keep it in.
I wonder what all the bandwagon riders are going to do about this show, and reruns of this show, and the actors who started in it, and the movie that was made of that show, and the actors that starred in the movie...
Surely none of them can be allowed to walk among us any loner.
I was borne and reared as a southerner.... I’ve lived in the Deep South all my life. Having said that, I....
a) couldn’t care less about the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
b) ditto the “historic images” of Jefferson Davis, or
c) other cultural momentos of the Confederacy.
I just don’t care... one way or the other. I’m a proud Southerner, but don’t consider what makes the South a wonderful place to live to have anything to do with the Confederacy.
Others, on both sides of the issue can holler and beotch all they want, but I just don’t care.
Good bye, Matt. You had such good promise, too. It was nice knowing you.
You nailed it. The GOP should merge with the Democrats to form the Go-Along Party. Their motto? “Why be bothered with principles on election day,when you can Go-Along to get along?”
"The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away... Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell. Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone 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. . . look with confidence to the ultimate universal acknowledgement of the truths upon which our system rests? It is the first government ever instituted upon the principles in strict conformity to nature, and the ordination of Providence, in furnishing the materials of human society. Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws." - Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.
OMG!
All of these Pubbie politicians trying to one-up each other.
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Sad.
I’m offended by Martain Luther King streets........ they all must go
Racist streets must not be tolerated