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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #25 on: August 21, 2017, 09:30:00 AM »
It's going beyond Civil War statues now...

http://nbc4i.com/2017/08/18/group-calls-for-removal-of-christopher-columbus-statue-downtown/

Calling for removal of the Columbus statue in Columbus, Ohio.  Even suggesting the idea of changing the name of the city.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/16/take-down-statue-remove-name-of-slave-owning-george-washington-from-chicago-park-pastor-says/

Calling for removal of Washington and Jackson statues in Chicago, and renaming parks.

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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #26 on: August 21, 2017, 09:34:39 AM »

Figured that would be the case. I'm curious to how long it will be until FDR statues are demanded to be removed.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2017, 10:09:14 AM »
It's going beyond Civil War statues now...

http://nbc4i.com/2017/08/18/group-calls-for-removal-of-christopher-columbus-statue-downtown/

Calling for removal of the Columbus statue in Columbus, Ohio.  Even suggesting the idea of changing the name of the city.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/16/take-down-statue-remove-name-of-slave-owning-george-washington-from-chicago-park-pastor-says/

Calling for removal of Washington and Jackson statues in Chicago, and renaming parks.

Whatever will that large Catholic charitable organization do if they can't be the Knights of Columbus any longer? Will they have to become the Knights of Malcolm X?
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2017, 08:40:22 AM »
Whatever will that large Catholic charitable organization do if they can't be the Knights of Columbus any longer? Will they have to become the Knights of Malcolm X?
I always wondered . . . what happened to Malcolms I through IX?

Anyway, I just saw a story that someone is agitating for the removal of the reliefs of Lee, Jackson, and Davis from Stone Mountain . . . I can't help but be reminded of the Taliban blowing up some ancient standing Buddha carvings in Afghanistan.

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The largest high relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicts three Confederate figures of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. The entire carved surface measures three-acres, larger than a football field and Mount Rushmore. The carving of the three men towers 400 feet above the ground, measures 90 by 190 feet, and is recessed 42 feet into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's elbow, which is 12 feet to the mountain's surface.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #29 on: August 22, 2017, 08:49:52 AM »
Now, as a Republican, I'm not entirely displeased to see Confederate statues removed. My question is, do we replace them with statues of Donald Trump?

Or do we replace them with statues of the prophet Mohammad?

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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2017, 09:00:37 AM »
Now, as a Republican, I'm not entirely displeased to see Confederate statues removed. My question is, do we replace them with statues of Donald Trump?

Or do we replace them with statues of the prophet Mohammad?

 ???

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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #31 on: August 22, 2017, 11:03:39 AM »
On the road so can't find the link anymore, but yesterday I read about a 200 year old Columbus monument being destroyed via sledge hammer, apparently videoed by the culprits, who sounded like white trust fund antifa wannnabes.

How is this crap any different than what the Taliban did (still does) regarding destruction of ancient monuments and texts all over the Middle East? Conservatives should be making this comparison, because what these lefty nuts are doing is no different than religious zealotry.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #32 on: August 22, 2017, 12:41:17 PM »
Vandalism, in the name of the new socio-political truth, becomes ... heroism.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #33 on: August 22, 2017, 01:01:36 PM »
Don't they know Columbus was an undocumented immigrant, who spoke Spanish?  ???


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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #34 on: August 22, 2017, 01:24:48 PM »
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/HPD-HFD-FBI-on-scene-overnight-at-Rice-11946918.php?ipid=ntk

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Schneck's arrest about 11 p.m. Saturday followed a day of protests and counter-protests over another controversial statue, the Spirit of the Confederacy, in Sam Houston Park. The "Destroy the Confederacy" protest drew hundreds but ended without incident.
Park Ranger Tamara Curtis, who was not allowed to speak to the media Monday, found Schneck near the base of the Dowling statue with two boxes filled with a homemade detonator, a timer, wiring, a battery, a bottle of nitroglycerin and an explosive organic compound known as HMTD, hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, according to the sworn statement by Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Patrick Hutchinson.
After being confronted, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosives but "immediately spit the liquid on the ground ... then proceeded to pour the contents of the bottle on the ground next to him," according to the statement.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #35 on: August 22, 2017, 01:53:40 PM »

Drinking nitro is not good for the heart.

I hate the Confederacy as much as any person should, but this is getting a bit ridiculous.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #36 on: August 22, 2017, 02:04:32 PM »
Maybe someone should let Antifa know that the Confederacy were mostly white, anti-American, and they favored the Democratic Party over the Republicans. Like them.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #37 on: August 22, 2017, 03:10:22 PM »
They also believed that there should be no unemployment for blacks.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #38 on: August 22, 2017, 03:54:03 PM »
They also believed that there should be no unemployment for blacks.


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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #39 on: August 22, 2017, 10:40:22 PM »
Maybe we should replace them with statues to Kaiser Wilhelm, Napoleon, Wellington, von Clauswitz (along with Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, just to give folks a pronunciation challenge) etc.

Since our history is "bad" maybe we can borrow some from Europe as they didn't own slaves...
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #40 on: August 22, 2017, 11:12:45 PM »
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/take_down_the_statues_of_robert_byrd.html
Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd



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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #41 on: August 22, 2017, 11:19:31 PM »
Don't they know Columbus was an undocumented immigrant, who spoke Spanish?  ???


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Ole' Chris was an Italian. Dunno if he spoke Spanish, even if he did get funding from Isabella of Spain.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #42 on: August 22, 2017, 11:21:51 PM »

Since our history is "bad" maybe we can borrow some from Europe as they didn't own slaves...

They just called them "indentured servants."

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« Reply #43 on: August 22, 2017, 11:42:07 PM »
They just called them "indentured servants."

A rose by any other name ...

Yes, but they weren't Black Slaves, it was OK.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #44 on: August 23, 2017, 12:13:16 AM »
Ole' Chris was an Italian. Dunno if he spoke Spanish, even if he did get funding from Isabella of Spain.


As far as I know, he was from Genoa. I believe that's the conventional view. Theories abound that he was actually a Spaniard, perhaps of Jewish extraction. Then again, rumors abound that Hitler was Jewish, and there's a book that claims Elvis was Jewish, so...

I presume he spoke Spanish, just due to his involvement with that empire.
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« Reply #45 on: August 23, 2017, 12:21:32 AM »
You asked what would replace the statues? There's a petition for a Britney Spears replacement.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/pop/7940876/britney-spears-statue-petition-louisiana-confederate-replace

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« Reply #46 on: August 23, 2017, 12:55:14 AM »
I thought the Muhammad idea would get a bit more reaction. Seemed humorous to me.
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #47 on: August 23, 2017, 08:47:04 AM »
There is only one logical replacement for these statues:


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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #48 on: August 23, 2017, 08:50:08 AM »
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Hmmm . . . didn't most Indians Native Americans take and keep slaves?

Doesn't that mean we have to purge public statues and paintings of Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, Cochise, and a host of others?
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Re: More Confederate memorial removals
« Reply #49 on: August 23, 2017, 09:43:40 AM »
Taco bell employees remove statue they find offensive:

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