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So..who is the sculptor? Laura Gardin Fraser--she died in 1966...months after completing this lil gem. It would appear that she had a soft spot for those traitors we call the Confederacy and apparently for those who fought Reconstruction reform..and basically won. How we can celebrate traitors at our military academy astounds me.West Point is displaying a Ku Klux Klan plaque at entrance to Science building, Congressional Naming Commission finds
West Point, the United States Military Academy, has a plaque with the name Ku Klux Klan written out and a hooded figure displayed at the entrance to Bartlett Hall, the science center on the military academy’s campus, according to a new report from the Congressional Naming Commission.
I guess you need to burn down the building to teach West Point a lesson. Free tuition for all Black West Point applicants would help in the healing process as well.West Point is displaying a Ku Klux Klan plaque at entrance to Science building, Congressional Naming Commission finds
West Point, the United States Military Academy, has a plaque with the name Ku Klux Klan written out and a hooded figure displayed at the entrance to Bartlett Hall, the science center on the military academy’s campus, according to a new report from the Congressional Naming Commission.
Damn....pretty stupid, I got ta say. I suppose that the hoods and all were Greek as well, right?Evidently teaching to ignorance is prevalent in government agencies. This is right up there with niggardly being a racial slur. Long before the Ku Klux Klan was adopted by southerners after the Civil War the Ku Klux Klan was Greek.
Its name derives from Ancient Greek Κύκλος Ἀδελφών, meaning "Circle of Brothers." The organization quickly expanded throuhout the Southern United States, not only on college campuses but also cities where alumni settled. The reason it is on a West Point building is because it belongs there.
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Nope...a chisel and hammer..a few hours later, problem is solved~I guess you need to burn down the building to teach West Point a lesson. Free tuition for all Black West Point applicants would help in the healing process as well.
You are aware that West Point predates the Confederacy by a good many years, right? The northern generals and the southern generals were classmates at West Point.Damn....pretty stupid, I got ta say. I suppose that the hoods and all were Greek as well, right?
For your edification..God knows you could use some:
Ku Klux Klan | Definition & History
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
The 19th-century Klan was originally organized as a social club by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866. They apparently derived the name from the Greek word kyklos, from which comes the English “circle”; “Klan” was added for the sake of alliteration and Ku Klux Klan emerged. The organization quickly became a vehicle for Southern white underground resistance to Radical Reconstruction. Klan members sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence aimed at the newly enfranchised Black freedmen. A similar organization, the Knights of the White Camelia, began in Louisiana in 1867.
In the summer of 1867, the Klan was structured into the “Invisible Empire of the South” at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee, attended by delegates from former Confederate states. The group was presided over by a grand wizard (Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest is believed to have been the first grand wizard) and a descending hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans, and grand cyclopses. Dressed in robes and sheets designed to frighten superstitious Blacks and to prevent identification by the occupying federal troops, Klansmen whipped and killed freedmen and their white supporters in nighttime raids.
Do provide a link for the bolded...bet ya can't...at least, not one that's not Stormfront approved. Best you could do is a college frat--Kuklos Adelphon--one that did not exist at West Point at any time.You are aware that West Point predates the Confederacy by a good many years, right? The northern generals and the southern generals were classmates at West Point.
The Ku Klux Klan existed as the Circle of Brothers long before the title was adopted by antebellum southerners. All explanations of the Klan as white supremacy are meaningless in the examination of historical meanings.
The word gay used to mean happy. "Don we now our gay apparel, did not mean dressing in drag when Deck The Halls was written.
No, it doesn't make sense. But I am sure you don't mind teaching CRT.After reading the full article I would be against it's removal. The reason given for it being there is legitimate and makes sense . In general I am against censorship including historical references.
All references or symbols regarding the KKK need to go.You are aware that West Point predates the Confederacy by a good many years, right? The northern generals and the southern generals were classmates at West Point.
The Ku Klux Klan existed as the Circle of Brothers long before the title was adopted by antebellum southerners. All explanations of the Klan as white supremacy are meaningless in the examination of historical meanings.
The word gay used to mean happy. "Don we now our gay apparel, did not mean dressing in drag when Deck The Halls was written.
There is no explaining the KKK.Evidently teaching to ignorance is prevalent in government agencies. This is right up there with niggardly being a racial slur. Long before the Ku Klux Klan was adopted by southerners after the Civil War the Ku Klux Klan was Greek.
Its name derives from Ancient Greek Κύκλος Ἀδελφών, meaning "Circle of Brothers." The organization quickly expanded throuhout the Southern United States, not only on college campuses but also cities where alumni settled. The reason it is on a West Point building is because it belongs there.
In 1965 the Ku Klux Klan had one meaning only. It just didn't start out that way.Do provide a link for the bolded...bet ya can't...at least, not one that's not Stormfront approved. Best you could do is a college frat--Kuklos Adelphon--one that did not exist at West Point at any time.
Given that in 1965...the year the triptych was installed..the Ku Klux Klan had one meaning and one meaning only--the hood and rifle say it all.
More expected ignorance.I guess you need to burn down the building to teach West Point a lesson. Free tuition for all Black West Point applicants would help in the healing process as well.
Yes it did. There is no justification for the KKK.In 1965 the Ku Klux Klan had one meaning only. It just didn't start out that way.
The KKK is an old and respected group. We would be much better off today if they still had their power.There is no explaining the KKK.
I don't twitch and the KKK is not respected. We are better off today because they are where they are now. I started this thread and you came in. So it appears I got you and it's funny to see how ignorant some people still are.The KKK is an old and respected group. We would be much better off today if they still had their power.
I just LOVE Jerking your chain and seeing you twitch.
You never fail to disappoint.I don't twitch and the KKK is not respected. We are better off today because they are where they are now. I started this thread and you came in. So it appears I got you and it's funny to see how ignorant some people still are.
In a word...yes. We are influenced by our environment..unconscious cues and arch-typical images inform our sub-conscious. A hooded man carrying a rifle..dubbed KKK. Seen everyday, by every cadet who has taken classes at the Science hall..which is to say all of them. Is it any wonder the racism pervaded the office corps for decades after?I understand how it could give offense. But seriously, how hard are some folks straining to find little minutiae to be offended over?
Does that historical (albeit offensive) little engraved blob of metal say anything about West Point today? Do they have a Klass on the Kulture of the Konfederacy? Is anything preached by the degenerate shithead members of the KKK taught or endorsed by anyone at West Point? Is the science taught at West Point somehow infested by some ideological crap like the beliefs of the KKK?
