Should Confederate War Memorials/Statues Be Abolished?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by vanzandt, Aug 12, 2017.

  1. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    You have nothing but stupidity, ignorance and arrogance. Some kind of cull is needed in this country.

    Where is Robespierre when you need him?
     
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    #461     Dec 18, 2019
  2. Cuddles

    Cuddles

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    #462     Apr 14, 2020
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  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

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    #463     Jun 2, 2020
  4. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

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    #464     Jun 2, 2020
  5. easymon1

    easymon1

    Why not ALL War Related Crap?
     
    #465     Jun 2, 2020
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/robert-e-lee-statue-richmond.html
    Virginia Governor Plans to Order Robert E. Lee Statue Removed
    A statue of the Confederate general in Richmond is controlled by the state, but the city’s mayor said he would propose a bill to remove additional Confederate monuments there.

    Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia plans to order the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond to be removed, an administration official said on Wednesday, the same day Richmond’s mayor said he would propose removing additional Confederate monuments from the state capital.

    Demonstrators in at least six cities have targeted symbols of the Confederacy in recent days after George Floyd was killed while Minneapolis police officers arrested him, marring some statues and monuments whose presence has long ignited controversy.

    The Northam administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the move had not yet been publicly announced, said Mr. Northam, a Democrat, would release more details at a news conference on Thursday morning.

    The official said the Robert E. Lee monument was the only Confederate statue in Richmond over which the state had control. The statue of Lee, the Confederacy’s commanding general during the Civil War, was one of many monuments in Richmond that were recently vandalized with spray paint; protesters tried to topple others from their bases.

    Mayor Levar Stoney of Richmond said on Wednesday that he would propose an ordinance to remove all four Confederate monuments that the city controls along Monument Avenue. Mr. Stoney said he would introduce the bill on July 1, when a new state law goes into effect giving local governments the authority to remove the monuments on their own.

    “Richmond is no longer the capital of the Confederacy — it is filled with diversity and love for all — and we need to demonstrate that,” Mr. Stoney said in a statement.

    Michael Jones, a City Council member who has been a leading voice for removal of the Confederate monuments, is also sponsoring the proposed ordinance. “This is not my victory,” he wrote on Twitter. “To our great grandparents, who lived in their shadow and to young protesters who echoed the call - this is all yours.”

    At least two cities have removed contentious statues from public spaces this week amid the protests that have followed the death of Mr. Floyd, a black man who worked as a bouncer. Prosecutors have charged Derek Chauvin, a white police officer who has since been fired, with murder and said three other officers aided in the killing.

    On Monday, the mayor of Birmingham, Ala., ordered the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park. Protesters had defaced the statue, the 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument in Linn Park, and chipped away at its base over the weekend. A large crane arrived to remove it shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, which was Jefferson Davis Day, a state holiday in Alabama honoring the president of the Confederacy.

    The city of Philadelphia took down a statue on Wednesday morning that depicted the former mayor Frank Rizzo, a champion of conservatives who aggressively policed black people and gay people in the 1960s and ’70s and whose likeness has long been criticized as a symbol of racism and oppression.

    The statue, which sat on the steps of a municipal services building since its unveiling in 1999, was often vandalized, and protesters in recent days have tried to take it down and light it on fire.

    Mayor Jim Kenney said the Rizzo statue was already scheduled to be removed — in 2021, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. But he said the protests showed that the statue “had to go away for us to understand where we need to go to look forward.”

     
    #466     Jun 4, 2020
  7. No doubt Governor Blackface is trying to do something ballsy to compensate for his blackface shiite. He will probably put a statue of Al Sharpton up there because it is all about Gov. Blackface trying to be woke to compensate for his dumphuk arse.

    How bout the rapist Lt. Governor there? Is he still in office? We know he is not in prison. Last we heard he had women credibly accusing him of rape but a decision was made that he could not be prosecuted because Governor Blackface might be removed and if Lt. Gov Rapist was removed too then a republican would become governor. Yeh. I see how it works. Why dont we just forget about all that and those sins by ripping Robert E. Lee down and putting some quick points back up on the board.
     
    #467     Jun 4, 2020
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  8. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    They were enemies of the state.

    Or we should build monuments to bin Laden, Hirohito and hitler.
     
    #468     Jun 4, 2020
  9. easymon1

    easymon1

    what state, Great Britan> France? lol read a little.
    BTW Bin Laden Family members were The Only Humans allowed in the air directly after 911 event, and allowed evacuation from USA.
    What do you make of all of this?
    Do you think maybe, just maybe you are manipulated by limited accurate information?
     
    #469     Jun 4, 2020
  10. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Robert E lee waged a war against the United States of America.

    Saudi royal family was allowed to leave America on 911. Bin laden is part of the family but they have officially disavowed him. I’m not sure what that has to do with bin laden waging a war with America. And I’m not sure what it had to do with putting up statues of america’s enemies.

    You keep bringing up that I don’t know what I’m talking about and I should read more. Are you projecting?
     
    #470     Jun 4, 2020