Posted on 06/30/2020 2:09:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday said the federal government has a responsibility to protect statues and monuments of historical figures like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Columbus.
Speaking at a press conference in Wilmington, Del., the former vice president defended monuments dedicated to past presidents who owned slaves. Biden made the case that those public statues should be preserved, while monuments to Confederate leaders should be removed peacefully by local officials.
“The idea of comparing whether or not George Washington owned slaves or Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, and somebody who was in rebellion committing treason trying to take down a union to keep slavery, I think there’s a distinction there,” Biden said.
“The idea of bringing down all those Confederate monuments to Confederate soldiers and generals who strongly supported secession and maintaining slavery and going to war to do it, I think those statues belong in museums, they don’t belong in public places," he continued.
"I think with regard to those statues and monuments, like the Jefferson Memorial, there’s an obligation that the government protect those monuments because they’re different. That’s a remembrance, it’s not dealing with revering somebody who had that view. They had much broader views. They may have had things in their past that were now and then distasteful, but that’s a judgment.”
The former vice president argued that local governments should lead in the peaceful removal of statues glorifying the leaders of the Confederacy. But he said that he understands the “anger and anguish” of those who would like to see them toppled by protesters.
“I can understand the anger and anguish that people feel by having for years and years been under the statue of Robert E. Lee if you’re an African American,” Biden said.
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Playing devil’s advocate here:
Isn’t a secessionist a traitor? Smart or not... He tried to destroy what was know as America.
Prepared for incoming but i’d rather here intelligent responses that I can use against this argument.
“The idea of bringing down all those Confederate monuments to Confederate soldiers and generals who strongly supported secession and maintaining slavery and going to war to do it, I think those statues belong in museums, they don’t belong in public places," he continued.
A fair amount of noodle brains around here think Trump should stand in front of every statue.
As you can see, Biden comes out way after Trump about protecting founders statues and the noodle brains think Trump hasn’t done anything.
Crazy town America.
Yep... that’s why they had to bring back the Russia scare!
An obvious conicidence and it Begs the Question.
It all depends on whether it is “the United States are” (the traditional phrase) or “the United States is” (the post Civil War Yankee-domination phrase).
If one is standing on “the United States are” and is fighting for one’s State, one is hardly a “traitor”!!!!!
OMG this is hysterical!!! I am laughing SO HARD!!
Late to the party once again, Sleepy Joe!
He has a following of well over 100,000,000 on social media. Is that enough people receiving his words?
Trump long ago bypassed the msm.
It’s easy to say that. Now that they are all gone!
What a dipshit.
I resent out of control ‘immigration’ - can we destroy the Statue of Liberty? Can we form a mob the democrat domestic terrorists?
Can we form a mob like the democrat domestic terrorists have done?
Come on Biden. Your position on 'mob rule' being OK IF the mob is on your side, is sick. Go away Biden - take your black lives matter domestic terrorists with you.
I feel Pres Trump is in over his head right now. He has multiple large problems facing him and in the last month he has done little more than tweet. There is a resurgence if cobid feedingthe appetites of the power and Dems. There is an astroturf insurrection going on, organized, financed and planned by people with resources and an anti American agenda, there is the ongoing war waged by the media, there is the need to get the economy restarted and there is the need to develop an agenda for term 2 that goes beyond tweeting .
Yep, trump took media heat as a white supremecisr for wanting to protect monuments. It goes without saying that they won’t level the same charge at Biden.
Trump has well over100 MILLION followers on social media and he reaches all of them without depending on the dinosaur media.
Federal and/or states should protect all monuments. Period. Even to Benedict Arnold or the Hopping Frog of Calaveras County. If the state legislature wants to remove a monument, let them vote on it and if it passes, have the governor sign or veto. It is not up to some yahoos with an opinion and a crowbar to decide the matter. And until the state resolves one way or the other, the federal government should protect their right to have a damned monument, if their own police force isn’t up to the job and asks for help.
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