OK.....Lets keep the Confederate Statues

[miketx]

I really don't think a bunch of morons who didn't bother to learn the back ground of Robert E Lee need to be lecturing others on " perspective".

Lee had a choice

Defend his country or defend a country dedicated to preserving slavery

He chose the latter

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

No it meant a negro was 3 fifths human. Please stop lying.

 

[rightwinger]

But lets modify them to portray the correct historical context

Lets honor those who created a nation to ensure that blacks would be enslaved forever. That is what the Confederacy was about.......Not Scarlett O'Hara, Not gentlemen fighting for a noble cause, not a cool flag to fly on your pickup truck

/---/ Dems desperate to erase their slavery owning heritage

It was nazis, skin heads, klan members and Trump defending that heritage

 

[rightwinger]

Lee had a choice

Defend his country or defend a country dedicated to preserving slavery

He chose the latter

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

No it meant a negro was 3 fifths human. Please stop lying.

Negroes were never given human rights

In fact that 3/5 was needed to keep them enslaved. States got to count 3/5 of their Slave population towards seats in the house
Those extra House seats were used to ensure slavery continued NOT to represent slaves

 

[Cellblock2429]

But lets modify them to portray the correct historical context

Lets honor those who created a nation to ensure that blacks would be enslaved forever. That is what the Confederacy was about.......Not Scarlett O'Hara, Not gentlemen fighting for a noble cause, not a cool flag to fly on your pickup truck

/---/ Dems desperate to erase their slavery owning heritage

It was nazis, skin heads, klan members and Trump defending that heritage

/----/ that is the motive behind the dem fake outrage over statutes.

 

[Reasonable]

As long as they keep this statue.

 

[Reasonable]

^ Val, all that proves is regressive liberal antifa were once in that group.

Little Mikey learned a new word( antifa) so he uses it all the time.

 

[miketx]

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

No it meant a negro was 3 fifths human. Please stop lying.

Negroes were never given human rights

In fact that 3/5 was needed to keep them enslaved. States got to count 3/5 of their Slave population towards seats in the house
Those extra House seats were used to ensure slavery continued NOT to represent slaves

Where did I say they were, deflector?

 

[miketx]

^ Val, all that proves is regressive liberal antifa were once in that group.

Little Mikey learned a new word( antifa) so he uses it all the time.

Trolling reported

 

[Cellblock2429]

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

No it meant a negro was 3 fifths human. Please stop lying.

Negroes were never given human rights

In fact that 3/5 was needed to keep them enslaved. States got to count 3/5 of their Slave population towards seats in the house
Those extra House seats were used to ensure slavery continued NOT to represent slaves

/----/ Those damn democrats and their dirty tricks

 

[Seawytch]

Do any of you "it's part of history" crowd know when this particular statue was erected?

 

[BlueGin]

I really don't think a bunch of morons who didn't bother to learn the back ground of Robert E Lee need to be lecturing others on " perspective".

Lee had a choice

Defend his country or defend a country dedicated to preserving slavery

He chose the latter

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

Must be why Robert E Lee's wife set up illegal schools for slaves in Arlington (with her husbands blessing) and along with her mother helped free many sending them to Liberia(also with her husbands support.)

 

[flacaltenn]

Should we tear down the slave quarters at every Southern plantation that is now on the tour list?

I know the black docents leading the tour groups at these places would object to that.
THEY don't seem to have a problem giving an objective and historically accurate depiction of the history. Why would you?

That is part of the history of the south

More than a bunch of statues and rebel flags

Just for you..

 

[flacaltenn]

Do any of you "it's part of history" crowd know when this particular statue was erected?

The one in Charlottesville? Since 1924.. About the time your Fed Govt was designing and planning the segregated black housing that founded most of today's "hoods"..

 

[WelfareQueen]

But lets modify them to portray the correct historical context

Lets honor those who created a nation to ensure that blacks would be enslaved forever. That is what the Confederacy was about.......Not Scarlett O'Hara, Not gentlemen fighting for a noble cause, not a cool flag to fly on your pickup truck

There are many statutes that depict the events and people who were enslaved. Some idiots might find them offensive. Does that mean they should be torn down?

Or maybe just tear down the statues you don't like? I would specifically like to know how you think this should work.

We are talking about publicaly honoring a nation built on slavery

Communities setting aside their most prominent sites to honor a nation that lasted four years and killed 600,000 people just so they could enslave others

Move them somewhere else and put them in proper prospective

Again....you are attempting to infer the civil war was solely about slavery. That is demonstrable false. I do not think an attempt to erase history because you do not like the history is ever good.

 

[WelfareQueen]

random statues .. meh

removing historical monuments depicting people/events that have meaning to the country and remind future generations who we once were ? HELL NO !

PC/POLITICAL OPINIONS BE DAMNED ... deal with it.

They were murderous traitors to our nation . Why should anyone honor them?

Because that's what Freedom IS.

You're FREE to honor them in your backyard and your car. NOT on government property.

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So we should not honor the victims of slavery on Government Property either because some nut like you on the opposite side of the political spectrum might be offended?


Your logic is crap.

 

[WelfareQueen]

I really don't think a bunch of morons who didn't bother to learn the back ground of Robert E Lee need to be lecturing others on " perspective".

Lee had a choice

Defend his country or defend a country dedicated to preserving slavery

He chose the latter

He was defending a states right to secede.

Much like California is threatening these days...while liberals applaud.

Right to secede over slavery

Somehow it keeps getting back to that

Only because the left likes to compartmentalize everyone into their labeled little boxes. Sorry... we don't live in a strictly black and white world like little robots. The real world is more complex than that. You don't get to assign everyone their thoughts and reasoning for decisions and actions based on your partisan grievances 150 years after the fact.

It was compartmentalized

Being a negro meant you were no more than an animal. Not worthy of human rights. A commodity to be bought and sold. The core of southern wealth in the cotton market but unworthy of any of the profit

THAT is what the confederacy was about

Nope...that was what America was about including you Yankee shits.....and don't ever for get it.

 

[MarcATL]

Do any of you "it's part of history" crowd know when this particular statue was erected?

I've asked that question before...crickets.

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[Valerie]

random statues .. meh

removing historical monuments depicting people/events that have meaning to the country and remind future generations who we once were ? HELL NO !

PC/POLITICAL OPINIONS BE DAMNED ... deal with it.

They were murderous traitors to our nation . Why should anyone honor them?

I'm sure the south said the same thing about Lincoln and Grant.

Southern traitors maybe . Lincoln and Grant fought to save the USA . Not destroy it .

These confederate fans are the same who get offended by players sitting out the national anthem . Oh the irony !

right?

also weird how none of these "free speech" warriors ever showed up for other fringe gatherings like westboro baptist rallies, to celebrate in solidarity for their free speech...

this selective passion for "free speech" alongside weapon wielding nazis in riot gear is bizarro bullshit.

to see POTUS excuse, lie, and conflate fodder for more false equivalence, is downright dangerous and deplorable!




Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe almost immediately slammed the comments, saying simply, “This was not ‘both sides.’ ”

“Neo-Nazis, Klansmen and white supremacists came to Charlottesville heavily armed, spewing hatred and looking for a fight. One of them murdered a young woman in an act of domestic terrorism, and two of our finest officers were killed in a tragic accident while serving to protect this community,” McAuliffe wrote.

Virginia governor: Charlottesville violence was not ‘both sides’ - The Boston Globe

 

[Valerie]

The racist marchers had been angered by the city’s vote to remove the statue from the spot in Charlottesville where it has stood since 1924. That decision is part of a larger trend in which Southern states are reconsidering long-standing public monuments that honor or romanticize the Confederacy.

Even Jefferson Davis’s great-great-grandson thinks the Robert E. Lee statue should be removed from Charlottesville

Now, even Jefferson Davis’s great-great-grandson—an outspoken defender of the Confederate president’s legacy—says that the statue of Lee should be removed from public display.

 

[Valerie]

the city VOTED for this removal, hello? rethuglicans?