Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

[guno]

Good!! they should move the statue to a museum where it belongs



In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.


It was just a year ago that the city decided to end its practice of hanging three Confederate flags from traffic light poles at the “Appomattox” statue on Lee’s birthday and on Confederate Memorial Day.

Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

 

[Kondor3]

Darkies got hold of the City Council?

 

[Ringel05]

Good!! they should move the statue to a museum where it belongs



In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.


It was just a year ago that the city decided to end its practice of hanging three Confederate flags from traffic light poles at the “Appomattox” statue on Lee’s birthday and on Confederate Memorial Day.

Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

Alexandria has always been ultra liberal, the rest of Northern VA is moderately liberal, I'm not surprised at anything they do.

 

[Timmy]

Why should we celebrate traitors to our country ?

 

[Hossfly]

Why should we celebrate traitors to our country ?

Save your Confederate money, son. The South will rise again.

 

[Auld Phart]

The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.

They're ashamed of a statue showing a defeated leader?

 

[tinydancer]

Why should we celebrate traitors to our country ?

It's history. What next? Remove Civil War information from text books because the Confederacy has to be mentioned?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Like every totalitarian political movement in history, the Democrats are attempting to erase history. Specifically, their history.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Good!! they should move the statue to a museum where it belongs



In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.


It was just a year ago that the city decided to end its practice of hanging three Confederate flags from traffic light poles at the “Appomattox” statue on Lee’s birthday and on Confederate Memorial Day.

Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

Alexandria has always been ultra liberal, the rest of Northern VA is moderately liberal, I'm not surprised at anything they do.

Northern Virginia is turning into Maryland.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Why should we celebrate traitors to our country ?

Why do you vote Democrat?

 

[MarathonMike]

I shudder to think what they will rename it. Perhaps "The Harriet Tubman Safe Passageway".

 

[Hossfly]

Darkies got hold of the City Council?

Goddamn Democrat Communist bastards.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

They are like the Taliban.

 

[Divine Wind]

It's history. What next? Remove Civil War information from text books because the Confederacy has to be mentioned?

Agreed. It's revisionist history, pure and simple. The LWers deny it, but is exactly what is happening.

It's one thing to put the past in context, but it's another to sweep it under the rug, hide it and deny it ever happened.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Good!! they should move the statue to a museum where it belongs



In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.


It was just a year ago that the city decided to end its practice of hanging three Confederate flags from traffic light poles at the “Appomattox” statue on Lee’s birthday and on Confederate Memorial Day.

Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

Since you're an ultra-bigoted nazi, this has to be a bad development if you're in favor of it.
You believe in censorship and book-burning if it doesn't jive with the dem-nazi agenda.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Good!! they should move the statue to a museum where it belongs



In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

The council’s actions went beyond the recommendations of a task force that studied what to do about the city’s controversial Confederate symbols, but not as far as some residents wanted.

After a lengthy public hearing, the council agreed to try to relocate the “Appomattox” statue from the busy intersection of Prince and Washington streets, where thousands of motorists pass it each day. The pensive and unarmed south-facing Confederate soldier would be moved to a local history museum on the same corner.


It was just a year ago that the city decided to end its practice of hanging three Confederate flags from traffic light poles at the “Appomattox” statue on Lee’s birthday and on Confederate Memorial Day.

Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

Great news. I live right on the Jefferson Davis Highway (everyone just calls it the parkway though, probably because of how embarrassing the name is). I've always wondered why the hell it was allowed to be called that.

 

[Ozone]

america needs a confederacy national park where all the southern pride folks can go to celebrate history, and at the same time be a dumping grounds for all these old statues nobody wants anymore. but that might be too much of a compromise for some people.

 

[TheOldSchool]

america needs a confederacy national park where all the southern pride folks can go to celebrate history, and at the same time be a dumping grounds for all these old statues nobody wants anymore. but that might be too much of a compromise for some people.

The park's southern conservative visitors would spend all of their time trying to sodomize the statues anyways. Best to just melt the statues down.

 

[guno]

Like every totalitarian political movement in history, the Democrats are attempting to erase history. Specifically, their history.

Nope put it in a museum, no other country would allow monuments to traitors and losers

 

[Ozone]

america needs a confederacy national park where all the southern pride folks can go to celebrate history, and at the same time be a dumping grounds for all these old statues nobody wants anymore. but that might be too much of a compromise for some people.

The park's southern conservative visitors would spend all of their time trying to sodomize the statues anyways. Best to just melt the statues down.

why is it that any time anyone tries to be reasonable with a libtard, the libtard always resorts to faggotry?