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That's a very cleverly-constructed strawman, but you assume much about me that is neither in evidence nor accurate at all. We have a very strong reaction in this thread to the presence of the statue (even a fella in #9 who said the only flaw with Booth's plan was the delay in getting it done). I think the statue will see repeated vandalism (anti-Yankee vandalism), and you disagree in the strongest possible terms.

I only wanted to see if your opinion has changed, but as I said on the first thread. We shall see.

In truth, no kidding, I've lived here all my life. There will be a little noise, maybe some of the re-enactors will come in uniform. Then everyone will be called a racist and go home. Nothing will happen except mabe the winos who live under the bridge a few blocks away may come over at night and leave the sort of stuff winos leave. You have seen more fireworks on this thread than you will during the real event.

You want to know what really sets folks off about this crap down here? Not Lincoln, Lee, Jeff Davis, Grant, The War. They are just tools used to constantly harp that we are outright racist and Klan members and on and on. This Lincoln Statue thing is just another obvious "You Dumb A.. Crackers are Nothing But A Bunch of White Trash Racists." And we will let you hang the sign. But we know what the truth is, and that is what rankles us.

A couple of months ago a white racist preacher came to the Chesterfield County, just south of Richmond (I'll bet he didn't have the cajones to try this in the city). Everybody had a fit. He was going to sue the county if they didn't let him use one of the libraries for a meeting. You know what? In this hotbed of racism, I'll bet not 6 or 7 people showed up. The outside was filled with busloads of anti-racist people protesting though. Go figure.

The racist Commonwealth of Virginia is the only State in the Union to ever elect a black govenor, but Virginia is racist. When mandatory busing was ordered in the early '70s, Richmond sucked it up and did it, with no more than maybe a little verbal complaining. At the same time, enlightened, liberal, Kennedy loving non-racist Yankees rioted and tore Boston to pieces, but we are the racists.

It just grates on peoples nerves when you go seven ways from Sunday trying to prove that you don't go off and burn crosses in the woods, and a bunch of hypocritical yankees who are constantly preaching otherwise come and want to stick another racist tag on you.