As are statues of Jefferson Davis and George Washington who he's mentioned to many black people, why the investment in those and not other slave owners?
History has value!
If they want to take them down then vote on it. It is not the property of mobs who probably don’t live there and don’t pay taxes!! I am not defending any particular statur. I am defending the rights of tax payers! Watching a mob destroy PUBLIC TAXPAYER PROPERTY and no one interferes, no one goes to jail, no one punished is absolutely disguating and evil. Can Christians go tearing down Planned Parenthood advertisements? They offend me...I shouldn’t have to look at them. Anti second amendment advertisements too.
Lowry has no idea what he is talking about. All the anarchist activity is a win for the commies. If all the Confederate monuments were toppled tomorrow it would not stop- the left is just warming up. People like Lowry do not understand that Antifa and BLM are the street militia of the left. If they are tearing down anything, it is not for any good purpose.
Another thing- for those who deride people who oppose desecration of these monuments- do you really want to be allied to and abetting Antifa and BLM, and the communists behind them? That is in effect what happens when you heap scorn on Southerners who oppose these monuments being ripped down. You drive away allies- an important consideration when you recall that Antifa and BLM are not your friends. Trying to appease them is a policy doomed to fail.
The Left will discredit our country’s Founders, and then what they founded. The Confederate statues were easy parts of history to start with. Now they are going after Washington and Jefferson.
The leftist propaganda like this article is endless.
JoMa
What Lowry doesn’t get is that the statues were part of the healing process of bringing Americans back together. Lincoln’s “with malice towards none.”
The left can’t beat the GOP right now so the best they can do is beat the copses of those they think represent them historically
My opinion is that there are two types of Confederate Monuments.
The first of these are the statues of a Confederate Soldier that is inscribed “To Our Confederate Dead”. These are monuments to the thousands of husbands, fathers, sons, uncles, nephews and friends that went away to war and never came home. They lie close to the Chambersburg Pike in Pennsylvania, Shiloh Church in Tennessee, Chickamauga Creek in Georgia, or near a little Dunker Church in Maryland. Some have no resting place; their ashes strewn to the wind by fire in a Virginia Wilderness.
Monuments to the dead are as old as humanity. When they laid Paleolithic Neanderthal Thag in his grave, the stacked some rocks on to, so they would always remember where Thag was. People have done that since then. We should protect these monuments to the dead. Some think they may no longer belong in front of the Surry County Court House or in the middle of a street of downtown Portsmouth. There are cemeteries nearby with graves of Confederate soldiers. Why not move the statues there? I think it fitting the stone sentry guards over his comrades in arms for eternity.
The second type of monument is to the Confederacy. These I do not particularly care what happens to. The statue of Jefferson Davis in a public square in New Orleans was not put there because Davis was from New Orleans or Louisiana. It was not erected there because Davis was an outstand Secretary of War or a Mississippi Senator. It is there because he was the President of the Confederacy. Stone Mountain in Georgia is another example of a monument to the Confederacy. Davis, Lee and Jackson were not from Georgia, nor did they ever serve there in any significant capacity. They are the face of the Confederacy and that is why that monument was carved. It resides on private land, and Georgia law should determine its continued existence. Make no mistake. it is there to memorialize the concept of the Confederacy. If it goes, I will not mourn its loss.
Why must we disrespect the South in the face of rampaging, looting and pillaging ancestors of ex slaves?
Why are these criminals more respected than the great leaders of the South?
The confederate monuments are the heritage of mis guided blacks who worship the isols of Martin Luther King Jr.
Why must we put up with all the MLK crap that besets America?
'The statues are an unnecessary affront to black citizens, who shouldn’t have to see defenders of chattel slavery put on a pedestal, literally."
The vandals don't even know the history of the statues that they vandalize. Here's one example of musician Stevie Ray Vaughn:
Yours are next Lowry. Piss on you.
That’s baloney. These statues were erected as symbols of reconciliation at a time when the nation was torn apart. Suppose the American government after the war had said “We hate the south and what they stood for. We are going to erase all evidence of their existence.” That would never work. It won’t stop at statues. It stops at genocide. Honoring the other side made us a stronger nation.
