Posted on 08/17/2024 12:34:06 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Meanwhile, the Germans don’t know what to do with the Berlin residence of Joseph Goebbels...!
I think that pendulum is apparently swinging in different directions depending on where it is located.
8/17/1858 Again, during the fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate in Charleston, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln emphatically stated his view of the role of Negroes in American society.
“What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races.”
“I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the free Negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, or having them marry with white people.
“I will say in addition that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which, I suppose will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality; and inasmuch as they cannot so live, that while they do remain together, there must be the position of the superiors and inferiors; and that I, as much as any other man, am in favor of the superior position assigned to the white man.”
right along side tomorrow’s statue of Jessie smollet?
Just plain wrong.
Fairfax County, VA renamed Robert E. Lee HS with that guy. Enough.
Sheila gets to have the first statue on Mars.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/mooned/
Lol.
I kind of get it. Robert E. Lee was a traitor lol.
If they're taking down the statue of Christopher Columbus. That's a different deal, obviously.
That was the work of DeKalb County, not Georgia.
Is it as commie looking, and made by commies, as that other commie MLK?
But why some Georgia rep?
Obviously, I do not agree with the replacement. It's almost like Washington, D.C. putting up a statue of Marion Barry. He was a man of his people!
I grew up here long after the war was lost and am still living here. Childhood landmarks and roads are being destroyed and renamed to the point where I am losing my childhood home. I didn’t lose the Civil War or live during the loss but I’m losing MY past now because of these NE transplants.
So they replaced a “white” racist with a “black” racist? That doesn’t make much sense. Lewis was a race baiting thief.
I hope the illegals don’t find out that the price of bronze scrap has skyrocketed.
Robert E. Lee a traitor? Since when? He certainly wasn’t (none of them were) considered a traitor during the years of the Centennial during the 1960s.
All these American heroes were treated at the Centennial as just that, heroes. The tragedy was that there came a war between the states, north and south, and these brave men were obliged to battle each with the other.
There was no lake of regard.
That's correct.
It was necessary to have some kind of reconciliation between the North and the South.
But the facts are that Robert E. Lee rebelled against the Union. As simple as that.
“I’ll replace the confederate statue with one of the Founding Fathers like Washington or Jefferson.”
Why? Washington and Jefferson were for secession; well, Lincoln, in Congress, said he was for secession too.
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