Question about the statues

[miketx]

If these statues are so offensive, why didn't Obama take them down? Or Bush? Or Clinton?

Why were statues still being erected a hundred years after the war?

The north stopped erecting statues twenty years after the war and they actually won

Off topic as usual. If the statues are so offensive why didn't they get taken down under other presidents?

What did the confederacy accomplish that is worth memorialize get?

If the statues are so offensive why didn't Obama or Bush or Clinton take them down?

 

[g5000]

If these statues are so offensive, why didn't Obama take them down? Or Bush? Or Clinton?

Why were statues still being erected a hundred years after the war?

The north stopped erecting statues twenty years after the war and they actually won

Off topic as usual. If the statues are so offensive why didn't they get taken down under other presidents?

Did you see posts 44 through 48 or did you have your solar eclipse glasses on?

 

[koshergrl]

"...Where, remnants of the old order remain, they are to be removed, the state using all the force necessary for this purpose."

DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman

 

[g5000]

2016: Kentucky Confederate monument to be removed after 120 years

 

[miketx]

If these statues are so offensive, why didn't Obama take them down? Or Bush? Or Clinton?

Why were statues still being erected a hundred years after the war?

The north stopped erecting statues twenty years after the war and they actually won

Off topic as usual. If the statues are so offensive why didn't they get taken down under other presidents?

Did you see posts 44 through 48 or did you have your solar eclipse glasses on?

Oh thanks. Then if all the statues are gone, what going on?

 

[g5000]

2016: The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away

Few would argue that likenesses of American forefather George Washington should be removed from public spaces, although he, too, owned hundreds of slaves. It’s more complicated to defend a statue of, say, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and prominent Ku Klux Klan member, whose racist beliefs are part and parcel of his legacy.

 

[toobfreak]

The statues aren't offensive. Those protesting the history of this country are.

They can take the statues down, but that does not erase what happened in the past.

It will be a step in denying history, though.

I don't like it.

What I don't like is how easily many kowtow to these idiots, including a lot of Republicans. They could not bend over fast enough to rip them down left and right. One city even worked through the night from dusk to dawn in order to remove a bunch to avoid any protests. HOW AFRAID this country is of dissension! You could organize 10,000 conservatives protesting in the streets and not one Democrat would give them an inch (maybe not even any Republicans) but let a small group of loons cry racism and the whole world falls over backwards.

 

[g5000]

2016: Five Places Where Confederate Monuments Have Recently Disappeared (or Soon Will) | Smart News | Smithsonian

 

[miketx]

2016: The South’s Confederate-monument problem is not going away

Few would argue that likenesses of American forefather George Washington should be removed from public spaces, although he, too, owned hundreds of slaves. It’s more complicated to defend a statue of, say, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and prominent Ku Klux Klan member, whose racist beliefs are part and parcel of his legacy.

What will the regressives want to destroy after they are all gone?

 

[g5000]

2015: New Orleans votes to remove Confederate monuments - CNN

 

[g5000]

2000 (Clinton era): Texas Confederate plaques are taken down

 

[g5000]

2000 (Clinton era): Confederate Flag Removed From S.C. Statehouse

 

[g5000]

1998: Duke University is Latest to Remove Confederate Statue

 

[miketx]

2000 (Clinton era): Texas Confederate plaques are taken down

Statues, statues....

 

[g5000]

1993: MONUMENTAL DIVISION IN NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS -- A monument to white supremacists who fell trying to overthrow the post-Civil War Reconstruction government may soon be removed from a downtown street.

But its supporters -- including former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke -- have vowed to block the action and say they'll seek to have the city lose federal funds.

The Liberty Monument is a stone obelisk that commemorates the 1874 Battle of Liberty Place in which 8,700 ex-Confederates skirmished with the biracial Metropolitan Police and state militia. The former Confederates were attempting to wrest the city from a "carpetbag" government that had given the vote to blacks and placed some in positions of power.

Y'all know David Duke. Big Trump supporter.

 

[g5000]

1999: Councilman's Protest Removes General Lee's Portrait from Richmond Canal Walk

 

[miketx]

Why the mad rush under Trump to take them all down?

 

[g5000]

Maybe we could put up a statue of a chained slave, and one of Grant, and one of Lincoln next to each Confederate statue, just so we can have a full and complete preservation of history.

 

[rightwinger]

If these statues are so offensive, why didn't Obama take them down? Or Bush? Or Clinton?

Why were statues still being erected a hundred years after the war?

The north stopped erecting statues twenty years after the war and they actually won

Off topic as usual. If the statues are so offensive why didn't they get taken down under other presidents?

What did the confederacy accomplish that is worth memorialize get?

If the statues are so offensive why didn't Obama or Bush or Clinton take them down?

Is Trump taking them down?

Seems to be a local decision

 

[g5000]

Why the mad rush under Trump to take them all down?

If the Nazis hadn't come to Charlottesville and killed someone, there would not be a rush.