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Petition started to remove Monroe statue of General Custer
https://www.clickondetroit.com ^ | June 9, 2020, 6:55 pm | Victor Williams

Posted on 06/10/2020 2:49:10 PM PDT by 11th_VA

MONROE, Mich. – Dozens of people are saying it’s beyond time for the statue of Civil War commander General Armstrong Custer in Monroe to finally come down.

“All of us feel like if this is up then we have no justice, we have no peace at all, honestly. It feels like it’s a threat to us, honestly. Like, why is this up, praising this guy when we have no justice for our colors,” said one Monroe woman.

She’s not the only one who feels that way. An online petition has bee started proposing the statue’s removal and so far it’s received thousands of signatures.

“We should have justice for ourselves. If we don’t feel like this needs to be up then all of us as a community should be able to come together. Everybody deserves Justice. Everybody deserves peace. Everyone deserves equality. Until we have all that, we will not have no peace. No justice, no peace,” Ariana Baez said.

But only time will tell in a world that’s ever-changing, especially in the year 2020.

“We out here fighting for our people, you know? Custer, that gotta come down,” a woman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...


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To: 11th_VA

If only George had a little patience and waited for the gatling guns.


21 posted on 06/10/2020 3:05:21 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Leaning Right

Good old Captain Parmenter!


22 posted on 06/10/2020 3:06:05 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: 11th_VA

There’s a state park near me that has a bunch of hiking trails with different color blazes on the trail. Blazes are paint markers on trees to denote the trail.

One of the trails is called the Indian Run Trail with red blazes. Just fir kicks, I’m thinking of mentioning it on local social media to see if I can get the Karen’s and PhH Mom’s all aflutter.


23 posted on 06/10/2020 3:06:10 PM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Shadow44

True— and the Indians wiped out his command out of his totally foolish operational command in ... “Indian country”.

He wanted to be President, imagine— just like the idiot Biden. His body was scalped and mutilated, and the Lakota women punctured his ears into his brain “so he would listen and hear better when the Great Spirit speaks of his harming of the Lakota”. Good movie on this “Son of the Morning Star”. Also great is the pure science analysis of the movements of the command, using shell casings still on the battlefield and GPS locators. Fascinating- they violated all kinds of trained tactics, and were slaughtered (and killed themselves as well, apparently).

So, there’s that. Southerners know Custer for trying to get General Longstreet to surrender the remnants of the Army of N. Virginia to Custer (a Colonel) in the last days before the Appomattox surrender. Custer rode on to confront Longstreet and demanded surrender from him. Longstreet stood in his saddle, (said to have sworn at Custer, saying “The Generals will meet and arrange the terms,not a BOY like you of junior rank!)with a raised voice at Custer and then literally chased him off.

Custer had it coming and a great Native cavalry delivered it. He would have been a terrible President.


24 posted on 06/10/2020 3:09:34 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: W.
Monroe, Michigan, is described as the childhood home of George Armstrong Custer. He was born in New Rumley, Ohio.

Monroe is named for President James Monroe. When does it have to be renamed? After all, Monroe was a slaveowner.

25 posted on 06/10/2020 3:10:21 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Custer was a UNION officer, fighting to defeat the South.”

True.

But he’s also had a reputation among some historians and SJW’s for what he did at the Battle of the Washita.


26 posted on 06/10/2020 3:11:37 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: 11th_VA
Can't wait until the country is littered with statues of heroes like this:


27 posted on 06/10/2020 3:13:35 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Shadow44; All
I knew this would happen. Just sooner than expected.
Demands to renumber and name units of the First Cav and rename the division are sure to follow. Hard to find any major US Army officer in the 19th century, other than Grant, who wasn't in at least one Indian War. Sherman was not in an Indian campaign as a company grade officer but was the overall commander for the major operations against the Plains Indians. So all their statues have to go and the history books have to be rewritten. This poison is spreading fast. Time to start defending historical figures and historical memory period and stop sniping about how Lee was a traitor and how many slaves who owned when. The common fabric of American history is being shredded as we watch.
28 posted on 06/10/2020 3:13:42 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: RummyChick

They will do that.

The goal is to tear down every monument of white people, because it’s white supremacist.

Nobody is going to be spared.


29 posted on 06/10/2020 3:16:31 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: 11th_VA

Trump would likely be in favor of removing Custer’s statue.

Trump: “Custer’s was a loser”


30 posted on 06/10/2020 3:18:29 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: 11th_VA

General Grant needs to be REMOVED FROM GRANT’S TOMB... HE INVADED MEXICO!


31 posted on 06/10/2020 3:18:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT8)
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To: 11th_VA

They should pull down statues to General Eisenhower as he killed lots of white people. That’s racist.


32 posted on 06/10/2020 3:18:48 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: 11th_VA

BLM is controlled by Antifa’s neo-Nazi white boys. Ariana Baez is a klutz.


33 posted on 06/10/2020 3:20:20 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: 11th_VA

Just take down all statues of anyone, anywhere. Oh wait, isn’t that what the Muslims want?


34 posted on 06/10/2020 3:24:53 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Shadow44

They won’t stop until they are stopped.


35 posted on 06/10/2020 3:30:32 PM PDT by Calvin Cooledge
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To: 11th_VA

I wonder if they ever ask themselves why there is a statue of someone like Custer in the first place? Of course not, that would require thinking.


36 posted on 06/10/2020 3:38:03 PM PDT by white_wolf
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To: John S Mosby

Custer did have a breveted general’s rank at the age of 23 in 1863, fought at Gettysburg and received the first Confederate flag of truce at Appomattox and was there for the surrender. He supposedly took off with the table the surrender was signed on. It’s ironic that he is remembered for his final fatal failure, but the same traits, going right in at the enemy, are what made his career during the Civil War.


37 posted on 06/10/2020 3:45:53 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: 21twelve

My other is “oriental”.

Friend’s friend (RIP) once corrected me in a restaurant - and we were just talking, not to waiters or anything - that it’s “Asian”. I said, I’ll call them what I want.

Frankly I really should say “yellow” to be consistent, but just can’t quite get the gumption to do so.


38 posted on 06/10/2020 3:47:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: white_wolf

“.. ask themselves why there is a statue of someone like Custer in the first place?”

To celebrate his torture and killing of Indians.


39 posted on 06/10/2020 3:49:13 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: John S Mosby

Why such animus against Custer?

LOL


40 posted on 06/10/2020 3:55:47 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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