New Orleans Begins Tearing Down Confederate Statues -- APPLAUSE

anatta said:
great decision on the Eurail pass.
I got married to an alkie, and went the drug route instead at that age.
I ran with a bunch of hard core ...then of course events and a need to make a living take over.

I wish I would have been smart enough to cut loose at that age..it's all good,
but I would have really like to get to some of the antiquites of the middle east.

I haven't been up to Ocala in ages -probably the last time was to get to Gainesville for that Petty anniversary concert.
I had relatives up there but they're gone now.
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I know that must have been rough times for you in your 20's. My bad decisions in other areas of life came in my 40's. Everybody has them at some point and it's always good when we learn from them and just "sail on, sail on."

The 2 places I always wanted to visit and didn't were all of Great Britain (my heritage is there) and Israel. I have a good time now though at least reading about both and watching every travel video I can find on YouTube, LOL! You would have a ball at the Royal Museum in Cairo...seeing all those mummies...such a cool place. :)
 
anatta said:
these are historical erections - the one about the white supremecist should have come down.
Jefferson Davis too perhaps

Beware any society that denies it's history for political correctness.

I can see banning Nazi emblems in Germany-there was nothing honorable about the Nazi's
but men of honor did fight for their states ( not the Confederacy so much) -not so much Jefferson Davis
as Robert E. Lee.
Look at the surrender at Appomattox -done in an honorable fashion
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this is all bullshit historical revisionism. The confederates weren't fighting for some noble goal. They were traitors that wanted to own slaves. No one in the confederacy was a man of honor.
 
{O said:
this is all bullshit historical revisionism. The confederates weren't fighting for some noble goal. They were traitors that wanted to own slaves. No one in the confederacy was a man of honor.
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So 98.4% were fighting for the 1.6% who owned slaves? Interesting.
Or was it that 1.6% of southerners fought for the confederacy? No wonder they lost.
 
they supported the institution. It is what drove their economy. They were all slave defenders. The south needs to realize the norths benevolence. But what we have given we can also take away. Don't make us kick your ass again. You will obey us.
 
blackascoal said:
A statue honoring white supremacists who killed members of the city’s post-Civil War integrated police force was the first to come down.

New Orleans has taken a first major step in fulfilling its 2015 promise to tear down four prominent Confederate statues, an attempt to scrub the city’s public spaces of what many see as white supremacist symbols.

City workers began removing the Battle of Liberty Place statue at 1:25 a.m. Monday in an effort to avoid disruption by protesters who want the monuments to stay, reported The Associated Press. Erected in 1891, the obelisk honors members of the Crescent City White League, a group of all-white Confederate veterans who killed members of the city’s post-Civil War integrated police force.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) tweeted that the statues*“do not represent the diversity” of New Orleans.

Statues commemorating Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard as well as Jefferson Davis (the first ― and only ― president of the Confederate States of America) will be removed in the coming days. All four of the structures will be relocated to a museum or another “place where they can be put in historical context,” according to a press release issued by the mayor’s office*

The city’s decision to tear down the statues was prompted by the 2015 massacre at historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine black churchgoers. Nearly six months after the attack, the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 in favor of removing the monuments.

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Many residents of New Orleans, a predominantly African-American city, have spoken out in support of the move. Landrieu first proposed the idea and it gained momentous support from the city’s black residents, though legal backlash prevented the structures from being removed sooner.

New Orleans is the latest Southern institution to push back against public monuments honoring their Confederate roots, a movement that gained force following the 2015 church shooting.

Soon after, South Carolina passed legislation to remove Confederate flags from its State House grounds. Alabama and Mississippi also decided to remove the banners.
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The diversity of New Orleans? What a crock of shit. Landru should tell the former thug piece of shit mayor Ray Nagin that since he said New Orleans was going to be a chocolate city.
 
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{O said:
this is all bullshit historical revisionism. The confederates weren't fighting for some noble goal. They were traitors that wanted to own slaves. No one in the confederacy was a man of honor.
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You mean those that were too poor to own slaves were fighting to keep the slaves they owned? Interesting that you think so.
 
{O said:
they supported the institution. It is what drove their economy. They were all slave defenders. The south needs to realize the norths benevolence. But what we have given we can also take away. Don't make us kick your ass again. You will obey us.
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You would be fighting many northerners. Snow birds and such....
 
Sailor said:
I like people like you.
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Thanks for the kind remark Sailor.......your avatar speaks volumes. I love lighthouses and the sea. I've got lighthouses and anything having to do with the sea all around my cottage. I still have my dad's binoculars, compass and sextant from WWll on a bookcase shelf...plus his little daily notes and logs from when he was in the Japanese POW camp in Shanghai. I even was able to do a Google map search to find the exact location because he included the longitude & latitude in the log. In the 50's I used to drive my mother nuts because she wanted me in pretty dresses. However, I just wanted to wear my t-shirt and dungarees and go help dad clean out the bilge, LOL!
 
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If anyone looks at New Orleans and can't see the history of racism and segregation .. they aren't really looking.

Katrina was a testament to the long history of racism in New Orleans.

New Orleans is a predominately black city, and its residents shouldn't have to put up with racist tributes to monsters.

AND, the deconstruction of monuments to monsters isn't just happening in New Orleans. It's happening throughout the south .. AND, as more cities and states in the south become majority-minority, you can expect that trend to continue until all such monuments are in museums or in the trash.
 
blackascoal said:
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If anyone looks at New Orleans and can't see the history of racism and segregation .. they aren't really looking.

Katrina was a testament to the long history of racism in New Orleans.

New Orleans is a predominately black city, and its residents shouldn't have to put up with racist tributes to monsters.

AND, the deconstruction of monuments to monsters isn't just happening in New Orleans. It's happening throughout the south .. AND, as more cities and states in the south become majority-minority, you can expect that trend to continue until all such monuments are in museums or in the trash.
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You fail to see the writing on the wall. Black America better hunker down because they're in for a very rough time.
 
Sailor said:
What makes you say that GQ?
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The liberals have sold out blacks for latinos. What used to be ghettos have become barrios. Big cities are betting the farm on illegals, risking real money to protect them. This isn't some feelgood dream of minorities marching arm in arm together. This is one or the other, and liberals have made their choice.
 
blackascoal said:
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If anyone looks at New Orleans and can't see the history of racism and segregation .. they aren't really looking.

Katrina was a testament to the long history of racism in New Orleans.

New Orleans is a predominately black city, and its residents shouldn't have to put up with racist tributes to monsters.

AND, the deconstruction of monuments to monsters isn't just happening in New Orleans. It's happening throughout the south .. AND, as more cities and states in the south become majority-minority, you can expect that trend to continue until all such monuments are in museums or in the trash.
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Give me a break with the victim card. They chose for years to throw money away on trinkets and plastic beads and a big glorified masquerade party every year instead of spending money to fix the levees. Mississippi got it worse, didn't moan, whine and complain. They simply quietly buried their dead and got on with life and rebuilding.
 
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