with the exception of the few conservatives left, it seems like the entire left coast from southerner northern border has gone insane
Posted on 07/12/2015 6:27:59 PM PDT by llevrok
SEATTLE - A Confederate monument in Capitol Hill's Lake View Cemetery is in the spotlight as a local group calls for its removal.
For more than a century, Lake View Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Seattle's pioneers.
Only a short walk from one of the cemetery's most visited grave sites - that of Bruce Lee - a 14-foot granite monument memorializes Washington state's Confederate veterans and their families.
"Just because it's a military memorial doesn't justify it," Charlette LaFevere says. "It's offensive."
LeFevere is part of a small group calling on Seattle City leaders to have the 89-year-old United Confederate Veterans Memorial taken down.
"To me this is the most racist monument in the Northwest," says LaFevere.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray doesn't like the monument, but says any sort of removal is out of his hands.
"Private property is private property," Murray tells KOMO News. "I support the First Amendment. I don't want it there, I don't like it, but I also don't believe it's the roll of government to tell people what to do with their private property."
Created and funded by the Washington state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926, the monument includes the "Stars and Bars" battle flag.
The memorial has been vandalized repeatedly over the years, most recently defaced by graffiti following the racially-motivated Charleston Church shootings.
"I don't want any person - person of color, anybody, to walk by this monument and feel intimidated or oppressed," LaFevere says. "And its very existence is expressing that."
That’s right, let’s start with party of Jim Crow who kept blacks in chains for a 150 years now after the great war. The party that lynched them wholesale all over the country and the party that turned dogs on them and refused to let them go to their schools and the party that started the “for colored only” drinking fountains and made them sit on the back of the bus.
So tell me how in the hell does the Republican Party get branded the party of racism that hates blacks when the democrat party is the party that has always hated blacks and history proves it.
Seattle: “Communism—OK. Brave Americans—not OK.”
It’s hard to believe that Seattle would do this thing.
with the exception of the few conservatives left, it seems like the entire left coast from southerner northern border has gone insane
The yankees arent doing this crap..the liberals are....keep your enemy straight pal.
Charlette needs to get a life.
Charlette is a complete phony.
I see Lenin, and I want to sign, Hammer Time. Yeah, good by to that disgrace.
It has the portrait of a slave owner on it!
> Don’t forget that George Bush had the Confederate plaques removed from the Capitol in Texas when he was governor. Don’t forget that Texans forbid the SCV to have their own license plates.
The end game is different now. This is a whole new level of idiocy. Its the removal of historical AMERICAN symbols that really had NOTHING at all to do with a doped up liberal idiot shooting up a church and taking lives. Its exactly what ISIS is doing in the Middlle East when they strip all Christian artifacts and symbols to remove its presence so they can institute their own. Its the excuse the liberal progressives have been waiting for to start dismantling America’s power by removing its history and its legacy. There is a difference.
I have had a little exposure to Seattle’s ideas as to monuments, and I posted it here some time back. Rerun time.
More than a few years back I read an article in the Seattle Times that on Aug 6 of that year there would be a memorial service and the unveiling in some park of a statue dedicated to a nine-year-old girl who died in the Hiroshima bombing. (It was one of those “Feel Guilty, America!” articles.)
I wrote the reporter and asked her if that organization was going to raise a similar monument in memory of a nine-year-old girl who died in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
She replied that she was unaware that any civilians died in that attack. That’s when I realized that Washington was completely Californicated.
He might have a point if there were anything actually racist in the monument. Or anything that expressed any opinions at all.
In fact, it's just a bunch of stones with the name and seal of the organization and crossed rifles on it. You can object to its existence, I guess, but there's nothing racist or objectionable in its design or appearance.
there is an embossed Bars and Stars on the emblem. That’s all.
Looking up this female, she has a blog and it is highly charged with rhetoric against everything. In short, a perfect liberal
A leftist in search of something to be offended about. Why am I not surprised?
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