Confederate monument to be removed

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SHOULD ALL MONUMENTS TO ENEMIES OF AMERICA BE REMOVED?​


A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.

Governments and universities across the country have re-evaluated displays of Confederate symbols following the racially motivated slayings last summer of nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ricky Jones, a professor at the university, said he has been pushing for removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.

"I can't tell you how happy I am," Jones said. "I think this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the administration building."

Jones wrote in a newspaper opinion piece last week that the statue is a "towering granite and bronze eyesore glorifying the nadir of America's past."


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/01/kentucky-confederate-monument-to-be-removed-after-120-years.html
 
Leonthecat said:
It's about time we stopped honoring monuments to America's enemies.
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They must be preserved to remind future generation of our past, Brother Leon, but racism, treason, and intolerance are not family values to be revered.

Perhaps a "Library of Losers" could be constructed to house Confederate memorabilia.
 
Legion Troll said:
They must be preserved to remind future generation of our past, Brother Leon, but racism, treason, and intolerance are not family values to be revered.

Perhaps a "Library of Losers" could be constructed to house Confederate memorabilia.
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A confederate monument is an invitation for reverence toward a movement of treasonous values.
We can be reminded of the mistakes made by the treasonous racists in history books.
 
Leonthecat said:
A confederate monument is an invitation for reverence toward a movement of treasonous values.
We can be reminded of the mistakes made by the treasonous racists in history books.
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Unless those history books are approved by the Texas legislature.

Confederate relics can be instructive value lessons for future generations to laugh at, Brother Leon.
 
Legion Troll said:
Is that for real?
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It is;

Alarming Statue of a Racist and Horse Perfectly Honors The Confederacy


An allegory of the American South: In 1998, a fierce racist (who also happened to be the former attorney of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin) named Jack Kershaw created a monument for another bad man, Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. The resulting statue is so hilariously stupid that we should keep it forever.

Only a century or so too late, Americans have begun to form a consensus that the Confederate Flag—the war banner of loser secessionists— is a hideous symbol of slavery. Not only should the flag be taken down from wherever it flies, so too should all “monuments” to the Confederate military be razed, because we don’t need public artistic celebrations of those who tried to destroy the Union in the name of human chattel. Southern “culture,” “pride,” and “heritage” are more often than not codewords for the bygone era of white supremacy. The South has a lot of things to be proud of: hot jazz, warm weather, beautiful native flora. Its population’s failed attempt to form The Confederate States of America is not one of them, and so does not deserve to be memorialized in our nation’s parks and pedestrian walkways.
With one exception. The Nathan Bedford Forrest monument, poignantly located next to a barren strip of land by I-65 in Nashville, is the dumbest looking statue I’ve ever seen in my life, including statues of cartoon characters located inside cartoon shows:

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Look at his face! That’s supposed to be a human being. For reference, Forrest was not some sort of puppet gremlin, but a normal-looking man:

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http://gawker.com/alarming-statue-of-a-racist-and-horse-perfectly-honors-1713422930
 
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