Authorities arrest man in vandalism to Confederate Monument

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[chasio649]

Will the American public roll over and let them?

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yes

[VietVet]

$43,000? To remove spray paint from metal statues? What kind of paint was it, pigmented super-glue?

It might have been cheaper, and protected the statues better (who casts monumental statues for outdoors out of zinc, anyway?) to have spray-painted the whole figures with matching rustoleum.

[azhenfud]

"I'd bet he was flapping his yap about it."

He looks just brite enough to boast he painted the 'federate's face black to the wrong one.

[ponder life]

Obviously this moron doesn't know that blacks fought on the side of the Confederacy and that freed black men in the South also owned slaves.

Interesting perspective. However, I believe more blacks fought on the side of the Union.

And, were there any instances where a freed black man owned a WHITE slave?

[proudofthesouth]

Though I'm no expert on the War Between the States and have only read one book long ago about a white illegitimate male that became a white slave; I'm not sure of how many white slaves there were.

Perhaps some other FReeper can educate the both of us.

[Non-Sequitur]

Though I'm no expert on the War Between the States and have only read one book long ago about a white illegitimate male that became a white slave; I'm not sure of how many white slaves there were.

You're probably thinking of Mark Twain's "Puddnhead Wilson" and that was fiction.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

There's the Sally Miller case, in which the Supreme Court decided that a German indentured servant girl whose parents had died had been sold off as a part-black slave. Louisianans were so outraged that their state supreme court found in her favor that they abolished the court altogether, then reformed it the next day with a whole new bunch of judges.