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The Stubborn Persistence of Confederate Monuments
Daily Beast ^ | April 25, 2016 | David A. Graham

Posted on 04/26/2016 8:41:07 AM PDT by C19fan

For most Americans, today is the second day of work this week. But state employees in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia are just kicking off the work week: They had Monday off for Confederate Memorial Day.

Last July, it seemed like the momentum against the Confederacy had turned definitively, the biggest reversal since July of 1863. After the massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina lowered the Confederate battle flag from the capitol grounds. Alabama Governor Robert Bentley ordered it removed in Montgomery, the former capital of the Confederacy, too. Cities and states began tearing down or quietly removing statues, flags, and other memorials.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: confederate; csa
Out own version of ISIS.
1 posted on 04/26/2016 8:41:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

When ALL vestiges of the Confederacy and (white) slave owners are finally removed, will we be able to ask, “Slavery? What slavery?”


2 posted on 04/26/2016 8:47:24 AM PDT by Roccus (Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
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To: Roccus

Eventually, they will place all people with Confederate Ancestors into re-education camps. It is only a matter of time.


3 posted on 04/26/2016 9:02:39 AM PDT by ohioman
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That might include most of the black people.


4 posted on 04/26/2016 9:05:09 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood

The blacks will get a special dispensation and will get to skip the camps. However, Southern whites will be made to “atone for the sins of their ancestors.”

People must understand that the LEFT does not equality, they want the authority to exact revenge.


5 posted on 04/26/2016 9:11:05 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: C19fan
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley ordered it removed in Montgomery

How is that working out for Bentley these days?

6 posted on 04/26/2016 9:12:57 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
Alabama brewery to debut Unimpeachable Pale Ale mocking Bentley scandal


7 posted on 04/26/2016 9:17:53 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: ohioman

Blacks will be the camp guards (”vory v zakone”).


8 posted on 04/26/2016 9:18:30 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: C19fan
I have a new rule. If the left demands something I'm against it. I may not know what they're after, but I know they're up to no good.

Taking a lesson from Trump, hold your ground. If you don't give in to the left on little things that don't seem to matter much the left won't be able to move on to their next awful demand.

Just look how the homosexuals escalated their attacks after they got the right to marry in all 50 states.

9 posted on 04/26/2016 10:29:44 AM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: C19fan; wardaddy
I see that the data in the article was gathered by the SPLC, which is second to none, as the foremost hate organization in America. The very idea of trying to force people--particularly a people to whom they are bound in a common pursuit, to give up the monuments to their brave ancestors should offend anyone with even a modicum of respect for others.

The era of Obama--and the antics of the Administration in Washington--make it even more essential that traditionalists stand up for their heritage.

Destroying people's monuments is indeed something one expects from ISIS, not from fellow Americans.

10 posted on 04/26/2016 10:39:30 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: bassmaner

I think you got it right.


11 posted on 04/26/2016 10:40:07 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: C19fan

Any Questions?

https://www.splcenter.org/about/staff


12 posted on 04/26/2016 11:35:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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