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    Default This university is removing a statue of its slave-owning founder

    The decrackerization of the south continues


    Florida State University students will soon say goodbye to a familiar face.

    A prominent statue of one of the school's slave-owning founders will be relocated from the school's front gates, FSU President John Thrasher announced Tuesday.
    In addition to the statue's relocation, Thrasher approved seeking the removal of a pro-segregation Florida Supreme Court justice's name from the campus' law school building. However, Thrasher did not accept a third recommendation to change the name of a different campus building that bears the same name as the statue.



    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/fl...rnd/index.html
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    And so ends racism in America. The Racism Chihuahua can retire.

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    I'm not endorsing slavery.
    But I question the wisdom of trying to scrub the landscape of all evidence of our slave-owning past. "Never forget".

    Displaying the rebel battle flag is a slightly different issue.
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    UVA is one of the top two or three public Universities in the country. They ought to just shut that bad boy down if the goal is to remove the slaveholders from prominence.

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    What about Yale?

    Yale University will scrub the title of "master" for faculty who work in the residential colleges — but it will not change the name of its college honoring John C. Calhoun, a white supremacist politician and strong proponent of slavery in the 19th century.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...-title-n564036

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    Quote Originally Posted by Controlled Opposition View Post
    And so ends racism in America. The Racism Chihuahua can retire.
    I thought removing things like this meant it didn't happen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Controlled Opposition View Post
    And so ends racism in America. The Racism Chihuahua can retire.

    Tell Trump that ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by sear View Post
    I'm not endorsing slavery.
    But I question the wisdom of trying to scrub the landscape of all evidence of our slave-owning past. "Never forget".

    Displaying the rebel battle flag is a slightly different issue.
    At times that "wisdom" comes across as trying to pretend "it didn't happen".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    Tell Trump that ...
    Why don't you grow a pair and tell him yourself. Let me know how it goes, boy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    The decrackerization of the south continues


    Florida State University students will soon say goodbye to a familiar face.

    A prominent statue of one of the school's slave-owning founders will be relocated from the school's front gates, FSU President John Thrasher announced Tuesday.
    In addition to the statue's relocation, Thrasher approved seeking the removal of a pro-segregation Florida Supreme Court justice's name from the campus' law school building. However, Thrasher did not accept a third recommendation to change the name of a different campus building that bears the same name as the statue.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/fl...rnd/index.html
    So when is Georgia blowing up Stone Mountain? Should be a grand event eh?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sear View Post
    I'm not endorsing slavery.
    But I question the wisdom of trying to scrub the landscape of all evidence of our slave-owning past. "Never forget".

    Displaying the rebel battle flag is a slightly different issue.
    did you read it?



    its not a scrubbing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Truth Detector View Post
    So when is Georgia blowing up Stone Mountain? Should be a grand event eh?

    Naaa ... Just Add MLK and Barack Obama

    To bring Tourism back to Stone Mountain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    The decrackerization of the south continues
    Florida State University students will soon say goodbye to a familiar face.
    A prominent statue of one of the school's slave-owning founders will be relocated from the school's front gates, FSU President John Thrasher announced Tuesday.
    In addition to the statue's relocation, Thrasher approved seeking the removal of a pro-segregation Florida Supreme Court justice's name from the campus' law school building. However, Thrasher did not accept a third recommendation to change the name of a different campus building that bears the same name as the statue.
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/us/fl...rnd/index.html
    We should tear down all those old statues of slave-holding racist assholes, and replace them with statues of every black person killed by law enforcement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bourbon View Post
    [SIZE=5]Naaa ... Just Add MLK and Barack Obama To bring Tourism back to Stone Mountain.
    I like this proposal:

    150716121005-outkast-stone-mountain-exlarge-169.jpg
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