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Statue honoring former governor to be moved from courthouse [Gov. Broward--as in County]
ABC /AP ^ | 10/11/17

Posted on 10/11/2017 5:00:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A statue honoring a former governor whose segregationist comments recently came to light will be removed from a Florida courthouse.

But Broward Mayor Barbara Sharief said Tuesday that the county also named after Napoleon Bonaparte Broward isn't likely to be renamed....

....Broward was Florida's governor from 1905-1908 and is best known for the draining of the Everglades.

The statue has been at the courthouse since 1993....

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: media; race; statues
I say we get rid of statues and memorials for womanizers. And plagiarists. And leaders who suspend the writ of habeas corpus. And slave owners. And those who thought homosexuality was wrong.

So, who is with me? Get rid of the MLK Jr. memorial? The Lincoln? Washington and Jefferson, too?

Come to think of it, didn't FDR have some racist comments in his past? I have seen a statue of him in DC. Let's move it into storage.

1 posted on 10/11/2017 5:00:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

FDR was an anti-Semite. But lefties don’t have a problem with that.


2 posted on 10/11/2017 5:03:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I want MLK taken the #### down everywhere first.

WTF, anything in his name is in a piece of #### neighborhood anyway.

And beating the #### out of prostitutes, while it may be looked to as an act of a true man in these neighborhoods, is disgusting.

If that sounds racist, you know where the report button is.


3 posted on 10/11/2017 5:05:02 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump isouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Only Govt forced segregation that Democrats promote is bad. Everybody freely assembles per the Constitution.
Everybody segregates.


4 posted on 10/11/2017 5:06:27 AM PDT by TheNext (Taxes are Hate !)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Hmmmph, looks like Jews weren’t the only minorities FDR had a problem with. Gee, my publik skrewl edukashun lets me down again. Go figure.


5 posted on 10/11/2017 5:07:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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I didn’t know MLK JR did that...


6 posted on 10/11/2017 5:10:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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recently came to light

B.S.

The problem here is the Right won't fight. The Left goes after every conservative historical figure, and holds them to 2017's standards, but the Right never returns the favor. The Right needs to go after the Left's icons.

Remove Franklin D. Roosevelt over Japanese internment.
Remove Margaret Sanger, who espoused eugenics.
Remove Harvey Milk, for having done nothing but get shot.
Etc., etc., etc.

7 posted on 10/11/2017 5:12:27 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was definitely a plagiarist. Even The New York Times said as much in 1991:

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/11/us/boston-u-panel-finds-plagiarism-by-dr-king.html

8 posted on 10/11/2017 5:15:33 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: SoFloFreeper

Broward County, Florida—Where the Democrats are so stupid they don’t know how to vote.


9 posted on 10/11/2017 5:19:53 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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Interesting. There is precedent for a politician to drain a large swamp...


10 posted on 10/11/2017 5:25:28 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: mewzilla

Just asking. I know Woodrow Wilson was a bigot. Why should he continue to be interred in our nation’s capital?

JFK was a notorious womanizer and some say addicted to drugs. Does he really deserve such an honored burial site?


11 posted on 10/11/2017 5:28:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Sharief don't like it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXFhMziwMYU

12 posted on 10/11/2017 6:52:20 AM PDT by moovova
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Broward County, Florida—Where the Democrats are so stupid they don’t know how to vote.

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They re-elected a Muslim as their Mayor.


13 posted on 10/11/2017 9:48:54 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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