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James Comey calls for removing Confederate statues in Richmond amid blackface scandals
CNN ^ | 9:53 PM ET, Thu February 7, 2019 | Kate Sullivan, CNN

Posted on 02/07/2019 7:24:47 PM PST by conservative98

Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey called Thursday for the removal of Confederate statues in Virginia's capital in the wake of blackface scandals involving top statewide elected officials, in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

"Expressing bipartisan horror at blackface photos is essential, but removing the statues would show all of America that Virginia really has changed," Comey writes. "There is no doubt that Virginia's leaders need to be held accountable for their personal history, but every Virginia leader is responsible for the racist symbols that still loom over our lives," Comey writes.

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Nice deflection. I guess this is the scapegoat for Governor Blackface?


41 posted on 02/07/2019 9:29:05 PM PST by BluegrassCardinal
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To: conservative98

More IGNORANT blather & clueless ranting for the EX-FBI’s DIMocRAT chief.
(GOOD that President Trump FIRED him.)

Yours, TMN78247


42 posted on 02/07/2019 9:36:06 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: conservative98
Comey is simply applying Alinsky tactics. His name deserves to be forever linked with Benedict Arnold's in U.S. history.

However, regarding Confederate statues, that issue has been thoroughly debated on FR over the last 2 years. In my mind there are 2 types of Confederate monuments - (1) memorials honoring Confederate dead and (2) statues honoring Confederate generals and politicians. Many level-headed Freepers have written that both should remain in place because they represent history, good and bad. Afterall, we are not (yet) the U.S.S.R. where they meticulously scrubbed Russian history and their own communist actions.

The residents of Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated a thoughtful approach in 1993 when they created Memento Park. They collected a selection of U.S.S.R. Cold War statues/monuments and put them in this park, instead of the junkyard, so they could remember their history.

Below is an interesting article about Robert E. Lee's thoughts on Confederate memorials.

Robert E. Lee Wrote Against Erecting Confederate Statues

43 posted on 02/07/2019 9:56:12 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: conservative98

The erasure of our history continues.


44 posted on 02/07/2019 10:38:14 PM PST by Brown Bag Special (Trust but VERIFY)
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To: miss marmelstein

s marmelstein wrote: Why? Did Robert E. Lee wear blackface?

Blackface cosmetic used in a theatrical staging presentations goes back hundreds of years very probably used in staging Greek and Roman as well as Shakespeare’s plays.. More often than not it was used because the story line called for a a black person who was not available to perform in whatever it called for.

While the technique has been often used in satire. Political objectors to the characterization portayed instead of labeling it as a abuse, are now condeming the means used (blackface) and are calling any use of blackface as racist instead of targeting the story line and the source Demonstrating just how far we are allowing the revisionists pervert and poison a means of communication to promote their guilt agenda.


45 posted on 02/07/2019 11:45:28 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: conservative98

Hypocrite racist Comey. The South was not racist, the democrat party peddled racism.


46 posted on 02/07/2019 11:53:54 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: conservative98

I call for the removal of James Comey . Mil trained patriots , do your duty .


47 posted on 02/08/2019 12:04:16 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: conservative98

The hypocrisy being exposed is very healthy right now. The media is giving the VA pols involved in this a pass.


48 posted on 02/08/2019 12:05:36 AM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: conservative98

GFY Comey. Treasonous scumbag.


49 posted on 02/08/2019 12:10:55 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: Pelham; Squantos; Yaelle; StoneWall Brigade; Black Agnes; mrsmel; beaversmom; Twink
Grandson two arrived this morning....almost named him Forrest....lol....he’s named after me actually and I ain’t Forrest as you know...hubby is from Schenectady.....he’s a good boy ....his daddy is east Tenn......they live at a deer camp west of music city...she’s buzzed from the epidural obviously...bearing children is something I greatly respect in girls

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50 posted on 02/08/2019 12:11:36 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Pelham

I’m officially old like a cat lady here doing grandkid pics


51 posted on 02/08/2019 12:12:38 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: conservative98

James Kommie...


52 posted on 02/08/2019 12:13:59 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: wardaddy

Your daughter and new grandson are beautiful. So precious. Thanks so much for the ping. Made me smile. Yours is the 3rd grand baby born to friends in recent days. My internet conservative friend in MN welcomed her daughter’s little boy, Daniel, into the world on Tuesday and my old highschool friend’s daughter had her little girl, Rose, on December 30th. So my Facebook page is filled with newborns...now on FR, too. Best to your family WD. It’s very wonderful news. I know you must be elated. :)


53 posted on 02/08/2019 12:35:10 AM PST by beaversmom (Trump is a bionic, 1-man band. Time for all Repubs to jump on his band-wagon & circle the wagons.)
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To: wardaddy

Her face is like ‘awww, my baby’.

His face is like ‘wtf just happened!?’


54 posted on 02/08/2019 1:04:15 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: conservative98

This idiot needs to be locked up before he hurts somebody or hurts himself. He has “issues”.


55 posted on 02/08/2019 1:10:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: maggief

They are so predictable, aren’t they?

Bad news:
Comey is getting ready to enter VA politics, probably a run for Gov

Worse news:
If he is getting ready to enter politics, he knows he is in the clear legally for actions while at FBI (or after he was fired).

Grrrr.......


56 posted on 02/08/2019 3:28:28 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Sounds like McCauliffe and the Clintons are making a move.


57 posted on 02/08/2019 3:48:55 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: mosesdapoet

Huh? That was a joke about RE Lee, for God’s sake.

Actually, blackface comes from the song “Jumpin’ Jim Crow” first performed by whites in blackface after a white theater producer saw black children singing the song in the streets of a southern city - might have been New Orleans. This was around 1820, I think.

Blackface in Shakespeare is a different story completely. The great Edwin Booth played him as an Arab with very little makeup. That role is conceived differently by different people.


58 posted on 02/08/2019 4:59:28 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Califreak

I’m never going back to my old school.


59 posted on 02/08/2019 5:39:42 AM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: wardaddy

Beautiful family Wardaddy ........ awesome , congratulations !


60 posted on 02/08/2019 5:40:44 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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