Posted on 04/01/2018 9:05:49 AM PDT by Simon Green
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot was legal.
Now it's on the verge of another first.
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
"Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century.
Peters, who heads the Arcata-based Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, called McKinley a proponent of "settler colonialism" that "savaged, raped and killed."
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against their very existence.
The push follows the rapid fall of Confederate memorials across the South in a victory for activists who view them as celebrating slavery. In the nearly eight months since white supremacists marched in central Virginia to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, cities across the country have yanked dozens of Confederate monuments. Black politicians and activists have been among the strongest supporters of the removals.
This time, it's tribal activists taking charge, and it's the West and California in particular leading the way.
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Hello...friend.
I’m not sure that Lincoln ever killed anyone. I recognize that he was the Commander in Chief of several armies who did indeed kill a lot of the enemy, but I don’t think that Lincoln ever actually pulled the trigger on anyone.
I'm aware of this, but the number of slaves in the "unaffected" states was very small. Still, an interesting historical distinction. It would have made sense to go ahead and have it apply everywhere, one would think. I wonder if it was because the powers Lincoln was exercising by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation were powers appropriate only to use against States in active rebellion? If not, I wonder what the reasoning was for the distinction?
Siyo...
Dohitsu?
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That's it exactly.
That’s not a primary source.
Don’t care. He said it. Its been widely reported. Deal with it.
Prove it....but you can’t.
Prove it....but you can’t.
I’m not your google monkey. Feel free to search for yourself.
To sell it politically Lincoln used the EP as a means of decreasing the labor supply in the South. This was (At least it was thought it would!) to harm the Southern war effort by diminishing production in supply and labor for military engineering.
I've crossed swords with some of those on your list.
I did.
Lost Causer Mythology.
In Arcata, Mendocino County, Calif. It's part of the California State University system--not to be confused with the higher-ranking University of California. And also, not to be confused with Humboldt University in East Berlin.
Thank you.
Well, I’m gone to bed...Osda enoyi...
I did.
Lost Causer Mythology.
Nah. PC Revisionist Lies.
Well yeah - what you claim is probably “PC Revisionist Lies” - but I didn’t expect you to admit to it ;’}
They fought to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor. There is no honor in that.’’ Secede from Obama’s America’’? What the hell kind of question is that?
He wasn't like Foster Brooks at all, Jack. He was an outstanding general who beat everyone the rebels sent against him.
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