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UT to Explore Fate of Statues that Honor Confederacy
Houston Chronicle ^
| 12/27/06
| AP
Posted on 12/29/2006 8:22:58 PM PST by BnBlFlag
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There is no end to the relentless attacks on Southern Heritage by PC Southern Schools. These Scalawags are much worse than their Leftist Northern Masters they're trying to please.
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:23:01 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
To: stainlessbanner
Here's one for the Dixie ping list.
Here we go again... (or maybe still)
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:24:42 PM PST
by
RebelBanker
(It is, however somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.)
To: BnBlFlag
Kwanza offends me. Can I get it baned?
Thought so. Oh, well.
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:24:53 PM PST
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: PeteB570
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:28:27 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: BnBlFlag
oh come on....can't we just destroy History and be done with it.....just think....no History to learn from.....no History to learn from one can't think, one can't think one can't learn, vicious, vicious cycle.....
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:31:22 PM PST
by
no-to-illegals
(God Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform, Our Heroes.)
To: BnBlFlag
This is a dishonest attempt to revise history, and the PC War is back on again I see.
Hopefully the Alumni will get wind and cut the purse strings.
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:32:36 PM PST
by
padre35
(We are surrounded, that simplifies our problem Chesty Puller)
To: padre35
Well, they can always put them into some dusty cellar
with the statues of Washington and Jefferson.
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:35:24 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BnBlFlag
Just keep scrubbing history and maybe some day we can say it never happened at all. Sounds like something Stalin would do.
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posted on
12/29/2006 8:42:41 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
To: BnBlFlag
As I said on another thread on this subject:
"Okay.....we'll put statues of Buckwheat, Aunt Jemimah, and a Lawn Jockey next to those they want to remove, so we have equal representation!"
To: BnBlFlag
Seems certain Union elites do not like to be reminded that the State is divisible despite the rhetoric in their so called Pledge of Allegiance -to the Yankee State that is.
To: BnBlFlag
The people who have "issues" with the statues aren't fit to shine Robert E. Lee's shoes.
They need to get back in the classroom and put more time into their studies and less into whining.
To: BnBlFlag
"People separated from their history are easily persuaded." --Karl Marx
Marx marches on!
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posted on
12/29/2006 9:17:53 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: donmeaker
Then why do you live in California?
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posted on
12/29/2006 9:18:57 PM PST
by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: Felis_irritable
"The people who have 'issues' with the statues aren't fit to shine Robert E. Lee's shoes".
I agree wholeheartedly. It's time to start putting the pressure on these PC Wimps that run UT today.
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posted on
12/29/2006 9:19:43 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
To: Liberty Valance
"scrubbing history" ... seems like something some like doing. ("The statues have in recent history become a topic of debate among students, professors and administrators." ) Maybe they have too much time on their hands and need some other form of physical and mental exertion.
These are the statutes on the South Mall: * Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States * Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U.S. * Albert Sidney Johnston, General of the Confederate Army * James Stephen Hogg, First Native Governor of Texas * Robert E. Lee, Chief General of the Confederate Military * John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederate States * George Washington, Cherry Tree Lumberjack.
So the Confederates are Davis, Johnson, Lee and Reagan. Do we stop there. Should also look to the State Capitol grounds as it has a Confederate War Memorial. After all it's State-owned land just like the University. Is Woodrow Wilson associated with anything that offends? How about George Washington? Should we go on?
History is history, like it or not. If we start by taking away these statutes because someone is offended by the past ... what's next. As I said before I think some have too much time on their hands.
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posted on
12/29/2006 9:20:22 PM PST
by
K-oneTexas
(I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
To: streetpreacher
Someone has to fight to keep Santa Monica and San Francisco in check.
Think of it as Missionary work.
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posted on
12/29/2006 9:27:34 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(If the sky don't say "Surrender Dorothy!" then my ex wife is out of town.)
To: donmeaker
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posted on
12/29/2006 10:08:11 PM PST
by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: BnBlFlag
I went to UT and this has been controversial for years. I always walked by those statues. Never gave much thought of them. Never offended me.
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posted on
12/29/2006 10:11:42 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Ptarmigans will rise again!)
To: Ptarmigan
I grew up in central Texas and attended UT Austin as an undergraduate. Besides the Confederate leader likenesses, there also stands a W. Wilson, a G. Wasington, striding great his hand on his hilt, an M.L. King, and other fine sculptures. The controversial statues intriqued me and led me investigate the Civil War and to think about our country, just as the other statues did. I say leave them in place. Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers set up, wisdom advises.
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posted on
12/29/2006 11:37:17 PM PST
by
civis
("Paging Hillaire Belloc!")
To: BnBlFlag
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:48:08 AM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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