Nationwide Removal of Confederate Statues

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[Commander -JB-]

On 12/4/2018 at 1:37 PM, Why am I Mr. Pink? said:

 

and the dumbasses from Md, Pa, Ohio, NY etc that for some reason have to display their "southern heritage" .... confederate flag = racism and I really wish we all agreed that any time we saw someone with the flag we would laugh and make fun of them openly and loudly. I want to punch them in the face but ill take organized public ridicule.

 

 

Don’t forget WV.

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[Springfield]

Probably old but whatever.

 

[Larry]

Just me, but out of all the arguments against monuments to the confederacy, the fact that they lost is the weakest one I can think of.  

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[spjunkies]

Leave Nate's statue alone buncha PC jerks

Edited January 29, 2020 by spjunkies

[TradeTheBeal!]

Yeah, leave it alone...in the darkened corner of a warehouse collecting dust.

[GhostofSparta]

Can we at least all agree that this is a national treasure?

[Jumbo]

why isn't there a nationwide removal of confederates?

[Bang]

What would be cool is if we melted them all down,, and poured the molten metal down the throats of every ****er that supports them.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a ****ing animal.

 

~Bang

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Del. Wendell Walker, R-Lynchburg, introduced a bill at the start of the General Assembly session calling for the removal of the statue of former governor and U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd from Capitol Square.

 

“The reason I put that in was more of a political reason,” Walker said.

 

Gov. Ralph Northam made remarks about his support for allowing local governments to remove Confederate monuments as well as creating a commission to recommend a replacement of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that Virginia contributed to the U.S. Capitol grounds.

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Byrd is considered the architect of Massive Resistance, a set of policies that aggressively pushed back against racial integration of public schools following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

 

“If we’re going to do this, then I’m going to request to remove the Harry Byrd statue,” Walker said. “He was a Democrat and advocated for Massive Resistance.”

 

Quite a few Democrats said they looked forward to voting for Walker’s bill.

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Walker didn’t want the Byrd statue taken down, so he requested it no longer be considered by the legislature.

 

[Captain Wiggles]

Just more evidence of the GOPs hypocrisy. No coming back from their decades long support of Nixons southern strategy. 

[Larry]

"Coming back"? 

 

First they'd have to stop doubling down on it.  

 

[PokerPacker]

On 1/29/2020 at 8:27 PM, Jumbo said:

why isn't there a nationwide removal of confederates?

There was; it was called secession.  For some reason, we decided to bring them back.

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[China]

Court reverses settlement that would give $2.5 million in university funds to protect Confederate monument

 

A North Carolina state court has reversed a settlement that provided $2.5 million in university funds to preserve a Confederate monument.

 

The UNC system announced in November that a statue commonly known as "Silent Sam" would be given to the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans along with a $2.5 million charitable trust after the group sued the system over its removal of the monument, according to a 2019 news release.

The monument was pulled down by protesters in the midst of controversy over Confederate statues in 2018.

On behalf of three UNC law students, two UNC undergrad students and a faculty member, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a motion to intervene in the case and stay the distribution of funds, according to a January statement from the organization. A judge denied their motion, and in January they filed an appeal.

"This is a victory for students and faculty across the University of North Carolina System and for the people of North Carolina who viewed this settlement as fraudulent and the transfer of financing to be in direct conflict with the university's mission," said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the organization "This development stands as a reminder that we can't stand silent in the face of injustice or tolerate actions that perpetuate dangerous racial ideology."

 

Click on the link for the full article

[@DCGoldPants]

I've added a google calendar reminder for April 9th to celebrate Confederacy Surrender Day. Going to praise the United States of American and their historic victory over the traitorous Confederacy along with their fake news lies about Northern Aggression. Will highlight Lincoln and some Union Generals along with all the Confederate Participation Trophies falsely labeled as monuments to this day.

 

It will be glorious. 

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[Larry]

1)  Applause. 

 

2)  Wondering how long it'll be before right wingers start attacking the Commandant of the Marine Corps for being an anti-American politically correct liberal.  

 

In fact, I actually was just inspired to create a meme.  

 

 

 

[Dan T.]

A new Confederate statue has been erected. It's outside the State House in Des Moines, Iowa, "honoring"  Confederate sympathizer and white nationalist Rep. Steve King, erected by a comedy duo known as The Good Liars:

 

 

 

 

The statue itself is about 3 inches tall:

 

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[Renegade7]

If we gonna burn our own country to the ground, we shouldn't leave any of the Confederate statues left standing when we done.

[PleaseBlitz]

About time.

 

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/02/alexandrias-confederate-statue-is-gone/

 

Alexandria’s landmark statue of a Confederate soldier was removed from Old Town Tuesday morning. Its owner, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, informed the city of Alexandria’s government that the statue would be removed on Monday, city spokesperson Craig Fifer tells Washingtonian. “While we provided traffic control,” Fifer says, “the City is not involved in or aware of the destination.” Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson announced the removal on Twitter Tuesday. The statue’s pillar will be removed later, Wilson says, and there’s no decision yet on how the city will use the intersection.

Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving. pic.twitter.com/CZTjlOkpfT

— Justin Wilson (@justindotnet) June 2, 2020

 

The Caspar Buberl statue, called Appomattox, has stood at the intersection of South Washington and Prince Streets since 1889, a location chosen because it was where many Confederate soldiers gathered to leave for war. The city, which stopped flying Confederate flags five years ago, has since hoped to get rid of the monument to its Confederate past, a task complicated by a Virginia law that protected it. Governor Ralph Northam signed a law this April that allows cities to remove Confederate monuments. It will go into effect July 1. Alexandria renamed its portion of Route 1, formerly called Jefferson Davis Highway, last year.

 

Wilson tells Washingtonian the city had been in discussions for some time with the United Daughters of the Confederacy about removing the statue and that the organization decided Monday to accelerate the process. He says one of the city’s goals was to “ensure there was no drama about it. We did not want to see a repeat of Charlottesville or anything else.” Charlottesville’s city council voted in 2017 to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, a decision that spurred lawsuits and eventually drew the attention of racists nationwide who descended on the city for a rally. Three people died in the violence that ensued.