Posted on 08/17/2017 3:07:56 AM PDT by Helicondelta
President Trump’s question to reporters on Tuesday about the possibility of tearing down historical monuments has been answered by a Chicago pastor: “It’s time.”
Bishop James E. Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center made headlines in the Windy City on Wednesday for calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rename Washington Park and remove a statue of the first U.S. president over his ties to slavery.
“It’s time. Please read my letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and The Chicago Park District,” Mr. Dukes wrote on Facebook Tuesday night. “I’m calling on them to change the names of Washington and Jackson Park. Slave owners do not deserve the honor of our children playing in parks named after them.
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Keep it coming. I actually hope this becomes a midterm issue. Can they keep this up for another year or so?
The Left is overplaying their hand, bigly.
They think they’ve got Trump, but they are headed straight for the trap.
But nothing on mosques and islam...?
The Left is busy attacking America.
Great stuff - condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists was only a pretext for what it wanted to do all along.
What Trump said in his press conference is being fulfilled to the letter.
And his enemies call him ignorant!
What exactly has Bishop Dukes done to lessen the death toll in the inner city of Chicago? It seems like...if he had any real relationship to the people of his city....the killing would rate as problem number one....not the statues.
History repeats itself to those who let emotion rule over cognitive reason.
Midnight desecration leagues instead of basketball.
They’ll have to revamp our currency as well; I guess it will look like Monopoly money...
ok. that’s the last straw for me. EVERY HISTORICAL MONUMENT SHOULD NOW BE TAKE OVER BY THE FEDS AND PROTECTED FOREVER. or at least until the Great Earthquake occurs.
That reminds me, must have been 20 yrs or so ago on one of the japanese kid’s cartoons there was an evil force emulating from a towering stone. It looked like the GW Monument.
SLEEPY HALLOW, my FRiends.
That series is building support for George Washington in ways that few can imagine!
It will end up when the Bible is deemed hate speech ( which is already happening). You will be thinking back that today was the good ol days.
They fell into Trump’s trap. He knew they would go after George Washington.
Idiots!
Muaahahah!
And Sleepy Hallow could well be the next GRIM.
Support for George Washington is going to ROCK in the next few years.
Woodrow Wilson was an actual racist, far worse than Robert E Lee. And who was it who appointed a mamber of the KKK to the supreme court?
We have a lot of presidential libraries and massage parlors to tear down, including Bill Clinton’s.
-He said ‘Guys like Obama used to pour coffee for guys like us’.
-His eulogy of Robert KKK Byrd.
-His mentor, Fulbright.
Or what about Truman? He said not to do anything about lynchings in the South.
We need to rename a LOT of schools, don’t we?
I love it! This is an argument that will blow up in the dems face like a suicide belt.
Can’t wait til we start seeing them squirm when asked, “do you support the removal and closing of memorials and statues of our slave-owning founding fathers?”
Typical dem stupidity, overplaying stupid. Sit back and watch the show folks.
No doubt a practitioner of Liberation Theology which is an attempt by communist to subvert Christianity to its cause by means of Social Justice theory.
If you think that any incumbent Republican will choose to fight this battle you are wrong.
If any Republican challenger chooses to fight this battle he will also have to fight most of the incumbent Republicans and possibly the party in general.
The Republicans have no idea how to fight these battles and really don’t want to deal with it.
It may take time, but Trump will drag them kicking and screaming.
Who is going to ask the dems “do you support the removal and closing of memorials and statues of our slave-owning founding fathers?” Certainly not the media. They will never ask the question so thjere will never be an answer.
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