Racist train station.
Posted on 06/25/2015 10:12:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Tiny Confederate flags are right under the noses of millions of straphangers passing through the Times Square subway station every day.
The tile mosaics honor the late New York Times head Adolph S. Ochs, a Southerner with “strong ties to the Confederacy,” said Civil War historian Dr. David Jackowe.
The tiles were installed more than 90 years ago when stations were adorned with symbols to honor prominent figures — in this case, the Tennessee-raised Ochs, who was buried with a Confederate flag after his death in 1935.
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Thousands upon thousands of fine, young men died for the Confederacy, seeking to limit the runaway powers being usurped by the Federal Government.
Contrary to modern Black rhetoric and the yammering of various Leftists, who clearly feel ‘it’s all about them’, the fighting was about runaway centralized power, not cotton pickers.
Ha! The micro-est of all micro-aggressions!
They’ll be tearing those down soon too
Racist train station.
Well if it was, quadruple their property taxes and call it reparations!;)
No but as the city as whole was sympathetic to the south since it was even then a Dim stronghold. Also of course there was the famous draft riot during the war.
Not very original, are they.
They can replace his picture and the flags with a portrait of the leader of the NY draft riots during the Civil War. Liberals love antiwar protesters (especially draft dodgers).
You know it had to have been put there by people who want slavery returned to this nation. /s
lol
The New York Democrats started the race riots in NYC during the civil war, and protested the US fight against the south.
Actually, the left viewpoint and the Southron viewpoint are the same - that it wasn’t about Slavery but to expand northern industrialist power.
I think the Communists got their talking points from the Southron sore losers.
I say this as a direct descendent of at least two Confederate soldiers, one fought for Tennessee, one for Mississippi.
“Tennessee-raised Ochs, who was buried with a Confederate flag after his death in 1935”
Dig him up!
I’m not a Confederate flag fan, but I am a fan of freedom. Happy to see this, but I was kind of disappointed about the particulars. I was hoping that there was a sudden protest involving lots of people bringing Confederate flags to the subway station.
Many flags have a the symbolism of the Union Jack, just with different colors, different crosses.
I did not realize there were so many Southern flags that looked like the Battle Flag just with different colors or stars, different crosses.
Even the Cherokee Confederates under Stand Watie had a variation of the Stars and bars with CHEROKEE BRAVES sewn into the middle bar, also a few more small stars.
there are dozens of styles to rub in the faces of the leftists.
It's been mentioned in other threads that the basic design of the CBF has become something of a generic image of rebellion, all around the globe. The beltway retards are several decades too late in trying to eradicate it.
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