What Does Memorializing George Floyd, Tearing Down Statues Say About Society?

[JBG]

The article What Is the Future of George Floyd Square? (link) excerpts below, unintentionally makes a powerful statement about what we honor as a society. We tear down statues of Theodore Roosevelt (who was the first to have a black person as a guest at the White House) and even Abe Lincoln. These people have massive accomplishments. What were George Floyd's accomplishments? Passing counterfeit bills? Excerpts from article:

The intersection of 38th Street East and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis was forever altered the day a police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck five years ago, killing him....
Ms. Austin, for one, does not want to see the fists come down or the makeshift shrine replaced by something more polished.
“People have been more focused on aesthetics than becoming,” she said. “The reason this place is still disrupted is because we haven’t become who we need to be. If we can get to where we are a nation where we are not taking lives for the sake of taking lives, then we can start talking about aesthetics.”

Sad that we celebrate crime and destruction, not accomplishment. Where to people expect the money comes from for social programs? From the air?

 

[Votto]

The article What Is the Future of George Floyd Square? (link) excerpts below, unintentionally makes a powerful statement about what we honor as a society. We tear down statues of Theodore Roosevelt (who was the first to have a black person as a guest at the White House) and even Abe Lincoln. These people have massive accomplishments. What were George Floyd's accomplishments? Passing counterfeit bills? Excerpts from article:
Sad that we celebrate crime and destruction, not accomplishment. Where to people expect the money comes from for social programs? From the air?

It is not what it says about society, it is what it says about the powers that be, although you can argue that society produced them and voted for them, etc.

Statues in general give me the creeps, as does the worship of flawed human beings, no matter who they may be.

It's like Karl Marx. Does anyone here know he was an avid antisemite and racist against black people? Yet the same ones that erect his statue tear down the statues of Washington and company who owned slaves even though he later set his slaves free.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I think it means fads are lame.

 

[MarathonMike]

I think it means Democrats as a Party have lost their way and should be dismantled.

 

[Votto]

I think it means Democrats as a Party have lost their way and should be dismantled.

These people are simply not going to just go away.

No, they are keepers for sure.

 

[elektra]

We must destroy America's history to create our vision of a country, Barack Obama

 

[SeaMajor7]

Marxists gonna Marx.

 

[Votto]

Marxists gonna Marx.

The Islamic fascists do the same.

Just look how ISIS tried to destroy all the historical sites over in the Middle East

I think it has to do with these totalitarian cult-like ideologies that insist on promoting a false narrative regarding human nature and their natural tendencies. They seem to need to promote the idea that human beings can be perfect because their leaders naturally are perfect, as in the case of Marxists as well. But when you study human history for what it is, you find the exact opposite which would cause people to question everyone and everything, and we simply can't have that now can we?

 

[Edgetho]

What Does Memorializing George Floyd, Tearing Down Statues Say About Society?​

That dimocraps are the scum of the Earth

shock

 

[MarathonMike]

These people are simply not going to just go away.

No, they are keepers for sure.

LOL yeah maybe for the Democrat oligarchs that fund them.

 

[JBG]

We must destroy America's history to create our vision of a country, Barack Obama

I would have loved Obama to have said that. I don't think he did.

 

[JBG]

What Does Memorializing George Floyd, Tearing Down Statues Say About Society?​

That dimocraps are the scum of the Earth

shock

Excuse me sir; I am a Democrat.

 

[Edgetho]

I would have loved Obama to have said that. I don't think he did.

The following will be carved on one of his narcissistic buildings somewhere.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

It's basically the same thing.

the dimocrap scum party should be destroyed to its very core. It is worse than the NSDAP and should face the same fate. Including its members and backers

 

[Edgetho]

Excuse me sir; I am a Democrat.

Seek help

 

[Votto]

Excuse me sir; I am a Democrat.

You realize you can still be one without admitting it, right?

Just trying to help.

 

[JBG]

Seek help

You realize you can still be one without admitting it, right?

Just trying to help.

I live in a deep blue CD and county. If I left I would lose any influence at all.

 

[1srelluc]

FUBAR

 

[elektra]

I would have loved Obama to have said that. I don't think he did.

In every way shape and form Obama said and did exactly that

 

[MarathonMike]

We must destroy America's history to create our vision of a country, Barack Obama

Barack Obama has no love for America AT ALL. He lived in multiple countries growing up being passed from one family to another. The ultimate con man, smooth as silk. He put most his effort into restoring Iran as the world number one leader in Terror. And of course dividing America.