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Who’ll Replace the Disgraced Robert E. Lee as a New Orleans Monument? Fidel Castro? Or Che Guevara?
Townhall.com ^ | May 13, 2017 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 05/13/2017 8:06:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Why are you southerners caving to the liberals?

The WAR is over.

Do we hate the Russians (Cold War)

Do we hate the Japanese?

Do we hate the Vietnamese/Chinese?

Do we hate the North Koreans or Germans? (well maybe)

The purge of Southern Symbols like the Confederate Battle Flag and statues of Confederate leaders is a disgrace to history.

We should NEVER FORGET the War Between the States.

But we must ALWAYS remember that it wasn’t a war against an evil empire, Nazis, Fascists, Imperialists, or Communists. It was against our brothers and sisters. Our aunts and uncles. Our fellow Americans. Against our very union.

The South lost. Surrendered. Accepted defeat. Slavery was abolished. The Union was saved.

Isn’t that ENOUGH? Is humiliation of history necessary? Flags and statues remained for ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS, but NOW they must be purged from society? WHY NOW?

Because political correctness has run a muck. Political Correctness is a cancer on our society worse than slavery was. It must be DEFEATED by not giving in to it’s demands.

If some people are offended by Confederate symbols, well TOO BAD. You do not have a right to not be offended. In other words a double negative makes a positive, so you have the right to be offended.

Full disclosure. I am a YANKEE.

My direct ancestors settled in Long Island before 1686. I live in Enfield, NY established in 1804, my direct family line settled here in 1806. I was born in New York and have lived in New York State my entire life. I have no southern roots or relatives.

I am just defending history.


21 posted on 05/13/2017 8:53:55 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Kaslin

Who’ll Replace the Disgraced Robert E. Lee...

Disgraced? Disgraced? What kind of communist, revisionist Bullshit is this? Disgraced, my ass.


22 posted on 05/13/2017 8:56:26 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
If it was up to me in New Orleans, I’d put up a staue to the man who defeated Lee, the American patriot Ulysses Grant.

Grant - another white guy from the distant past? Unlikely. American patriot? Again, unlikely.

It'll be Dutch Morial, or the like.

23 posted on 05/13/2017 9:02:21 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Organic Panic

Knowing libs, I say either Trayvon Martin or St Brown of Furgeson.


I think you know your libs. Good prediction. They might be ultimately too aware of how stupid they will look to end up carrying out the idea, but you know it’s what they WANT to do.


24 posted on 05/13/2017 9:19:50 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: Kaslin

Trayvon Martin


25 posted on 05/13/2017 9:22:37 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Kaslin

Any of the LIB heroes: Dr josef mengele, che guevara, margaret sanger, fidel castro, pol pot, stalin, mao, jimmah carter (add any LIB loser you can think of).


26 posted on 05/13/2017 9:25:48 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: PLMerite

LOL


27 posted on 05/13/2017 9:29:10 AM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Kaslin; rockrr
Admiral Farragut. Proud Southern Hispanic-surnamed unionist with some connection to the city.

But I think Charles Deslondes, leader of the 1811 uprising, would probably be a more likely choice, given the current mood.

28 posted on 05/13/2017 9:33:24 AM PDT by x
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To: Charles Martel

You are closer to local thinking than you realize. NO WAY can it be anyone white, unless...someone suggest a monument to the great Landrieu himself. If enough time passes after he is out of office, I could see a statue of him somewhere. There are ‘monuments’ to Trayvon Martin-types everywhere and every day on the streets of N.O. Dead bodies, black men mostly, left on sidewalks as a reminder that ‘black lives matter’. It will be some generic ‘symbolic’ monument or a black person-no matter how obscure.


29 posted on 05/13/2017 10:00:50 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: kiltie65
because they lost the winners get to tear down the monuments

The winners are not the ones tearing down the monuments. Unless this Landreau character is a Yankee transplant......

30 posted on 05/13/2017 10:10:05 AM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: Kaslin

“The Rifleman: The Sheridan Story”

One of the best episode of any western, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta8vjAW1nZg


31 posted on 05/13/2017 10:17:59 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Stopthethreat

These monuments remind some folks of slavery, so apparently this is justification for their removal. I suggest that all black people be removed from this country because they remind ME of slavery since their ancestors were once slaves. Eye for an eye.


32 posted on 05/13/2017 1:14:16 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Charles Martel

Yeah, the Grant memorial would be a big keg of whiskey.


34 posted on 05/13/2017 1:20:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

The White House was built with the help of slave labor. When are we going to tear it down?


35 posted on 05/13/2017 2:05:44 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

I don’t think there really was slavery. I think it has been made up.


36 posted on 05/13/2017 2:16:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

The real question should be: “Who’ll Replace the Disgraced Mitch Landrieu as the New Orleans Mayor?”


37 posted on 05/13/2017 2:48:21 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: Taxman

I’m hoping for Sidney Torres a.k.a. Trashanova. He cleaned up the Quarter(literally) he’s a tough, pro business guy and young and brash enough to shake things up. Being a hottie doesn’t hurt either-but he’s white, so it’s doubtful. More likely one of the hyphenated, professional politician, black ex-council women/activists who are interested.


38 posted on 05/13/2017 3:34:21 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: Uncle Sham

Shhhh! With Trump in residence that could happen if all this plays out! My guess is that all plantation houses(historical or not) will be the next targets. After all they ARE the symbols of slavery! Dressing up pretty girls in period gowns and making $$ showing the elegant plantation homes should be seen as bragging about those times, right? If ALL traces of slavery and those who benefitted from it must be erased there’s gonna be a LOT destroyed in this country!


39 posted on 05/13/2017 3:39:44 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: ClearBlueSky

Sounds good to me. He must be a Republican?


40 posted on 05/13/2017 3:47:57 PM PDT by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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