Shenandoah County (Virginia) School Board votes to restore the Confederate memorial names of schools ...

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It officially freed the slaves. You are a true idiot and an example why Sherman should have burned the entire South to the ground.

Just another episode of Sinkworrier concerned about his dishes instead of the truth. It officially freed slaves only in the areas controlled by the Union Army in states in rebellion. It freed no slaves in the border states and none in the areas controlled by the Confederate army.

Look up the history of the Juneteenth holiday if you want to know the reason it was celebrated. Why isn't the Emancipation Proclamation celebrated with a holiday if it freed the slaves?

 

[rightwinger]

You do know that the Federal Government controls military bases ?

Even the Federal Government dumped naming military bases for Confederate heroes
Long overdue

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

The argument was that slavery was not addressed until after the war. The proclamation shows that to be wrong.

The last people to give up their slaves where the so called civilized Indian Tribes. After the war.

 

[horselightning]

funny blacks are more the reason there own people were put into slavery and never admit it. they also still practice it in africa today. they out ti take time reading the stories of those blacks in slave by there own and learn how these real people who were once slaved looked down an america blacks today as spoiled. it is entresting

 

[horselightning]

The last people to give up their slaves where the so called civilized Indian Tribes. After the war.

black people have never given up slave in africa. sale there wives ab d children all the time.

 

[horselightning]

That has never been a reason for erecting a statue. Confederate memorials are unique among war memorials in this country.

Most were mass produced and erected well after the war, even in states that were not part of the confederacy or did not exist at the time of the war.

Other war memorials are aldo typically either in cemetaries or to commemorate battle ground sites. Not so the Confederate ones which were often large and prominantly displayed in town centers..

When ever there was a major racial upheavel (Jim Crowe, civil rights) there wasa sudden surge of new monuments, often in towns with a significant Black population.

Should Germany put up memorials to the Nazis? Should they be put in towns whith significant Jewish populations?

Just food for thought here but why not treat them like other war monuments....place them in cemetaries and historic sites?




I think that is a valid concern given the tendancy of people to go too far in either direction. BUT Washington did not participate in the Civil War did he? I don't agree with removing statues simply because the person had slaves, historical context matters and if the reason for the monument had nothing to do with slavery, why remove it?


I don't it is that blurred in the case enslaving peopme and fighting for that "right" or similarly, what the Nazi's did. There might compmex reasons for war, but that doesn't mitigate the fundamental evilbeing fought to preserve. Again, it is a bit like making a casethatGermanyshoyld etect statues honoring major Nazi commanders and figures.

most people are so smal lminded about these confederates and civil war in general . try researching there lives instead of judging and hating them.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

black people have never given up slave in africa. sale there wives ab d children all the time.

I was referring to slavery in the US.

 

[horselightning]

I was referring to slavery in the US.

africa has everything to do with it they allowed it for money. black wouldnt not have got her with out thme kidnapping and steailing there own.

 

[rightwinger]

most people are so smal lminded about these confederates and civil war in general . try researching there lives instead of judging and hating them.

The Confederacy was an Evil Empire of which there is nothing to celebrate

There was nothing good about the confederacy

 

[pknopp]

So, a slave held in Bowling Green Kentucky, Columbia, Missouri, or Annapolis, Maryland were affected by the Emancipation Proclamation in what way?

Not a damn thing happened! They were slaves before, and they were slaves after.

Irrelevant.

 

[pknopp]

The last people to give up their slaves where the so called civilized Indian Tribes. After the war.

O.K.

 

[rightwinger]

The last people to give up their slaves where the so called civilized Indian Tribes. After the war.

So why don’t you build a monument to honor them?

 

[JoeB131]

Palestinians cause their suffering by killing Jews.

From the river to the sea, Israel will be free, ( of Palestine)

Only if they want to become an international pariah.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Only if they want to become an international pariah.

Only dead Jews are not international pariahs. That's why Israel does not worry about opinion when engaging in self defense.

 

[JoeB131]

Only dead Jews are not international pariahs. That's why Israel does not worry about opinion when engaging in self defense.

They should.

Apartheid states are not sustainable... Just ask South Afrcia.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

They should.

Apartheid states are not sustainable... Just ask South Afrcia.

Yes. Just ask South Africa. That was a joke right?

 

[JoeB131]

Yes. Just ask South Africa. That was a joke right?

Not at all. I mean, I know you are horrified by people of color running things, but they are fine with it.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Another sign that We the People, the Posterity, have had enough.

Slowly, inch by inch, reclaiming our birthrights. But the battle will take years and we must not grow weary.

Shenandoah County School Board votes to restore the Confederate Names of schools

With over 500 people watching on Youtube, the Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to restore the Confederate general names of schools in its district.

www.whsv.com

Mr America, you now want to restore the names of racist, slave owning, traitors. I thought these folks were Democrats, why do you want to honor Democrats.

 

[LeftofLeft]

You do realize naming schools, highways,monuments, military bases after Confederate heroes was done as an insult to blacks to keep them in their place?

I live in the same region. Do you think Lee Mansion which overlooks Arlington Cemetery was done to keep Blacks in their place?

The most explicit acts to literally keep Blacks in their place I have seen in my life are enlightened Democrats in the Northeast in the 1970s fighting tooth and nail to keep Blacks out of their schools; including, an up and coming US Senator from Delaware ranting at the notion of his kids going to schools with Blacks as “a racial jungle”.

I’d rather my brown kids go to school named after a dead person whose views I don’t agree with vs. going to school in communities that secretly long for racial segregation.

 

[rightwinger]

I live in the same region. Do you think Lee Mansion which overlooks Arlington Cemetery was done to keep Blacks in their place?

The most explicit acts to literally keep Blacks in their place I have seen in my life are enlightened Democrats in the Northeast in the 1970s fighting tooth and nail to keep Blacks out of their schools; including, an up and coming US Senator from Delaware ranting at the notion of his kids going to schools with Blacks as “a racial jungle”.

I’d rather my brown kids go to school named after a dead person whose views I don’t agree with vs. going to school in communities that secretly long for racial segregation.

The Shenandoah School Board sent a message

They are still deeply racist and do not care for the opinions of its black residents.

The area is still rich in Civil War heritage and that deserves to be noted. But to celebrate those who fought to enforce slavery is poor judgement