Posted on 05/20/2017 9:37:17 AM PDT by brucedickinson
“The cultural and economic and the spiritual loss to this city for having those statues up that have run people out of the city,” Landrieu claimed. “The great migration that sent some of our best and brightest to places across the country that we don’t have the benefit of has been incredible.”
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Yes, New Orleans’ best and brightest did leave. They currently are languishing in prisons around the country.
Hooray! No more racism!!!
And now that our past is ceasing to exist we can forget all about that “reparations for slavery” stuff!
Were these statues of our history past all named Katrina? What a doofus!
There was a black American by the name Isaac Scott Hathaway of Lexington, Kentucky, who as a child of a former slave/union soldier/ minister who highly valued education, was taken by his father to a museum, I think in Ohio, when very young.
They went into a gallery of statues, and it bowled the young boy over. He fell in love with sculpture from then on... but he tugged at his father’s sleeve because he noticed something.
He asked his Dad, “Why aren’t there any statues of black people?”
Now, his Dad could have told him it was because blacks are mistreated, which of course at the time would be true. He could have told his son it was because the museum curators were racist, which may or may not have been true. He could have told his whites considered blacks too inferior to be depicted in stone or bronze, which was true of some whites but not all. He could have told the boy life was unfair and he would never see black people in sculpture.
But he didn’t.
Instead he simply told his son it was because there were no black sculptors.
At that point his son peered back at him with determination on his face and told his Dad that he would become a sculptor ...and make those missing statues.
And he did. He studied his dream and worked all kinds of jobs and painted horses for the race horse owners of Kentucky. He and his Dad built an art studio out of an old chicken coop, and he dug clay out of the riverbanks and hauled it home.
He taught in an elementary school. He worked so hard he helped all of his brothers and sisters get their educations too, and they went on to great things in various fields.
And he sculpted. There were many schools being built and he founded his sculpture company at an auspicious time, making busts of black heroes - and whites- out of plaster for those schools. The company did well.
He was commissioned to sculpt coins by the US mint of Booker T Washington and George Washington Carver.
He eventually started teaching sculpture in college and became the founder of the country’s first university level ceramics program.
All because his first impulse wasn’t to get angry and vindictive and try to destroy those white statues he saw because it was unfair ...his first instinct was to become the remedy and use what he saw for inspiration and study.
I think he would be very embarrassed, were he alive today, to see these idiots destroying art, rather than studying it to hone their skills. He would probably thrash the vandals, official or not, and tell them to pull up their pants and get to work digging some clay to make models for sculpture to ADD to the city’s collection.
But he’s not here, so we have fools who are, by destroying rather than building, reducing the amount of exposure to fine art that the children in the area have, rather than expanding it; they denying to the children of New Orleans the inspiration to learn and develop their artistic gifts, to become Isaac Scott Hathaways.
the reason people left was because of people like Landrieu and the type of people on the city council. The main culture changed years ago and people just didn’t want to live with that. And of course the crime is bad, has been for a long time. One of the reasons I lived in New Orleans was because of the history, I left a few years ago for peace and quiet.
Oh, thanks.
Oh, good grief, there are TWO of them? The city is cursed.
Everyone is leaving chocolate city. Oh noes
I think Katrina did that rather than Robert E. Lee. Again I ask, can’t they put up a statue of Beast Butler?
Reminds me of the flood that hit East St Louis because their mayor - who was a funeral home owner and owned the only equipment in town capable of doing it- stole the city’s flood gates and took them to the scrapyard.
Where do the Democrat’s come up with schmucks like this? Oh wait, there are millons of them.
And we’d still have our welfare recipients, prostitutes, criminals, and thugs living here if it wasn’t for those meddling monuments!!
After seeing those photos, I hope they don’t plan on putting up a monument to Obama. His ancestors were slave owners too. Maybe they should put one up that represents the Democrat party, since they’ve been running the plantation for a long time now.
A liar extraordinaire - my take is that not one person moved away from NOLA because of the monuments. The removal is proof the government of the city is racist - anti-white, anti-history.
Think it’s a good idea to turn the Mississippi River away from New Orleans and let it flow straight south at its’ juncture with the Red River and the Atchafalaya River just south of Simmesport. Turn New Orleans into the ghost town that it deserves to be.
Edmonia Lewis was a black artist/sculptor, born in 1844.
I first came across her many years ago while doing research on the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
It’s those dang Confederates that are causing all out problems.......
It’s her brother. Now I know why some mothers eat their young.......their mother should have.
We’re with you on that. We used to go every January to celebrate my birthday........never again just like you said.
That great migration caused a very significant rise in crime everywhere those migrants went, especially Houston. The mayor is a dunce, brainwashed to the point of a stupefying depth.
and would have been underwater decades ago were it not for 7 massive pump stations that keep the city dry.
NOLA is 12 feet under sea level.
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