Why don't they start with former KKK Richard Byrd U.S. courthouse in WV?
I lived on Lee Circle in 1965.
It will end when every street name, park, statue with representation of the Confederacy is wiped out. Next will be Washington and Jefferson, slave owners don’t you know.
One Landreau out (Mary) one to go. Mayor Landreau has much bigger problems in NOLA. Waiting for a Jindal response.
Liberals who want to rename all the Confederate-dedicated venues, streets, monuments and even towns are going to find that the locals are overwhelmingly opposed to not just renaming but the renaming the liberals want.
People who didn’t care about Robert E Lee elementary and famous Confederate high school will oppose Obama elementary, Aziz high school and so forth.
Man, the OFAs are all over this one. (LOL JimbauxSJournal. Stupid yankee.) The locals are having supper, I imagine.
Everywhere this conversation takes place- left, right, paleocon, libertarian, people are ready to come to blows- with their own virtual ‘’friends’’. Or they were.
We still need a divorce, 150 years later. If society hasn’t ‘’evolved’’ enough to settle peacefully, I guess we’ll just have to duke it out. But that’s a shame. It doesn’t have to be that way. I know one thing. The left is going to be awfully surprised by the number of our Black neighbors who choose to stay.
We need to preserve our historical sites, battlefields, and flags, including those linked to the Civil War, both North and South. They are part of our history.