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Council president wants Confederate monuments off city property (Jacksonville, Florida)
News4Jax ^ | August 14th, 2017 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 08/14/2017 2:18:10 PM PDT by Drew68

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To: Red Badger
What makes them think that removing the statues will make things all hunky-dory from now on?..................

It's not about statues.

It's about bending the knee.

When the statues are gone, they'll find something else to take away, just because.

21 posted on 08/14/2017 2:37:49 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68
"At the end of the day, I’d like to move them," President Anna Brosche said. "I’d like to make sure that we can appreciate the history and heritage of what these memorials, monuments and markers mean to city of Jacksonville.

Betch 90% of students and 80% of adults couldn't tell you who these statues represent.

22 posted on 08/14/2017 2:38:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Drew68

Well, you can’t name a school after Lynch any longer.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 2:39:22 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rockrr

And WHO will be the next group of Veterans that make someone uncomfortable needs to be stopped NOW


24 posted on 08/14/2017 2:40:38 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: Reno89519

When will this end? they find it easy now with these because any objection results in a racist label. Jefferson had slaves, George Washington had slaves they are marching in this direction to rewrite history


25 posted on 08/14/2017 2:41:16 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: rockrr
The U.S. Congress said that all veterans are U.S. veterans," Nelson said.

And traitors.

Or are we glossing over that part?

FWIW, I'm not inclined to do that.

26 posted on 08/14/2017 2:42:13 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Drew68

OR....they will want to erect NEW statues to THEIR heroes.....Che, Malcolm, Michael Brown...............


27 posted on 08/14/2017 2:42:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: hal ogen

This woman is an idiot and fascist. What a snowflake-pimping fool. What ever happened to Freedom of Speech and History? What kind of morons elect this type of loser?


This might help explain it: Anna Lopez Brosche is her full name.

Jax is changing. Fast. A lot less southern and a lot more generic Florida. A lot folks here can’t wait to flush history and traditional values down the memory hole.


28 posted on 08/14/2017 2:44:17 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: mewzilla

Benedict Arnold was a vet, too.


29 posted on 08/14/2017 2:44:57 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Drew68

Stalin and Mao erased history. It’s good for the revolution to create an all new reality.


30 posted on 08/14/2017 2:46:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Arm_Bears

If Jacksonville City Council President Anna Lopez Brosche doesn’t like it here, she should return to the country of her heritage.


Yeah, I noticed that too. A lot of these new transplants just can’t wait to airbrush history and conform to leftist norms. Another example is the long running homo ordnance saga.


31 posted on 08/14/2017 2:46:44 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Drew68
I’d like to make sure that we can appreciate the history and heritage of what these memorials, monuments and markers mean to city of Jacksonville. At the same time, also realize that these are symbols that evoke a significant amount of negative emotion for some in our community

100% hypocrisy!

32 posted on 08/14/2017 2:51:08 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: hal ogen

“This woman is an idiot and fascist. What a snowflake-pimping fool. What ever happened to Freedom of Speech and History? What kind of morons elect this type of loser?”

Western civilization did not survive feminism and the boomer generation.


33 posted on 08/14/2017 2:55:15 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Drew68

The UK has had a turbulent history, but it reveres all of it on the theory ‘Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it’.

History is our heritage. Oliver Cromwell is an example of why a nation does not erase its roots or it will rot.

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Oliver-Cromwell/

Popular culture

Despite his death over 350 years ago, to this day Cromwell continues to provoke a strong reaction following his significant role in a dramatic and troubled period of British history. He has prompted numerous monuments, films, television and radio programmes and been broadly referenced throughout popular culture, from being the codeword to warn of an imminent German invasion of Britain in 1940 to Monty Python’s 1989 Oliver Cromwell and more recently the 2004 single by Morrissey, Irish Blood, English Heart. However Winston Churchill’s suggestion to name the British battleship HMS Oliver Cromwell when he was First Lord of the Admiralty did not gain royal approval, funnily enough!

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Winston Churchill was right!!!!”


34 posted on 08/14/2017 2:58:48 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Reno89519
Maybe get back to lettered and numbered streets? That would be easier anyway.

Nobody needs Ten Commandments or Crosses on public land anyways. People have a right to not have to look at offensive symbols.

35 posted on 08/14/2017 3:01:21 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Drew68
Richmond was the seat of the confederacy and should be razed to the ground as soon as possible.

Why stop there?

All blacks with the last name of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and White should have to change their names to something less racist.

36 posted on 08/14/2017 3:02:35 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Drew68
It's not about statues.

It's about bending the knee.

When the statues are gone, they'll find something else to take away, just because.

You have this right. It is about submission and nothing else.

37 posted on 08/14/2017 3:02:58 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Drew68
Another member of the McCain/Graham/Collins/Murkowski wing of the GOPe:
"Anna Brosche is a Republican at-large member of the Jacksonville City Council in Florida"
She has no skin in the game. I mean it's not her heritage. So solly.
38 posted on 08/14/2017 3:03:09 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: sodpoodle
did not gain royal approval, funnily enough!

They're still sore over one lousy decapitation. Heck, Cromwell wouldn't even make the leaderboard at an ISIS tournament these days.

39 posted on 08/14/2017 3:03:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: AmusedBystander
All blacks with the last name of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and White should have to change their names to something less racist.

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Why Stop There?

Maybe they just should be eliminated entirely so as not to embarrass them or others anymore.....(sarcasm)

40 posted on 08/14/2017 3:05:35 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""There is more to life than being a passenger. Amelia Earhart")
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