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Democrat Jacksonville Mayor Celebrates Removal of Confederate Statue
Breitbart ^ | 12/28/2023 | HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN

Posted on 12/28/2023 9:15:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The newly elected Democrat mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, celebrated the removal of a Confederate statue in the city, which was officially gone before noon Wednesday.

Democrat Mayor Donna Deegan, who won her mayoral bid in May, celebrated the removal of the statue in Springfield Park, formally known as Confederate Park. The monument in question, “In Memory of Our Women of the Southland,” depicts a mother with her two children at her side, looking down at a book upon her lap. It was erected in October 1915.

The Democrat mayor, who said during her time on the campaign trail that she would remove Confederate monuments, contended that she is not trying to “erase history” with the statue’s removal.

“Symbols matter,” Deegan said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1915; confederate; culturalmarxism; culturewar; deegan; donnadeegan; jacksonville; lebanese; lebanon; mayor; removal; sculpture; statue; waronart; waronstatues
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Virtue signaling Karen. This does what exactly?
1 posted on 12/28/2023 9:15:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Disgusting.


2 posted on 12/28/2023 9:16:44 AM PST by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ Symbols matter,” Deegan said in a statement.

They’re all asses.


3 posted on 12/28/2023 9:18:38 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Makes Orwell spin in his grave.


4 posted on 12/28/2023 9:18:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Under what authority does this wokeist witch remove a statue signifying an historic event over states rights?

Where’s our governor?


5 posted on 12/28/2023 9:19:12 AM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.v v ely)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Women are temperamentally unfit for leadership in government. They think and act like mommies. The most important thing to them is the absence of any disagreement. The female mentality is the one where both kids in the schoolyard fight get expelled, making not the slightest effort to distinguish the bully from the defender.


6 posted on 12/28/2023 9:20:19 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up.)
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Not at all what I pictured her to be. I was thinking Stacy Abrams...

 

I'll give her a pass on her stupid remarks as she is Not Guilty.

7 posted on 12/28/2023 9:21:00 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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If DeSantis were working full-time as governor, maybe he could have blocked this outrage.


8 posted on 12/28/2023 9:23:29 AM PST by Theodore R. ( )
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To: Responsibility2nd

“she is Not Guilty”

That’s not a recent pic.....do a little poking around on the net and I strongly suspect you’ll change your tune on that.......one of Johnny Bench’s old catchers mitts comes to mind.


9 posted on 12/28/2023 9:26:47 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would like to see a list of those who’s lives have been made better by removing these statues.


10 posted on 12/28/2023 9:31:20 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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When all mention of Civil War is gone, when the word ‘slavery’ disappears from the language, we will ALL be slaves................


11 posted on 12/28/2023 9:32:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s sad is that they don’t just remove them, they destroy them so that they cannot be retrieved by a more sane and thoughtful generation.


12 posted on 12/28/2023 9:32:49 AM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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There’s a secondary reason removing these statues is a bad idea. In many places, they’ve become landmarks. Now when giving directions one will have to reference the place the statue used to be.


13 posted on 12/28/2023 9:34:57 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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Removing statues to a war is effectively removing history. So my question is what Civil War, if there was a Civil War there would be statues. So since there’s no statues for the Civil War there was no Civil War.


14 posted on 12/28/2023 9:36:03 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: ifinnegan

“They’re all asses.”

That they are.


15 posted on 12/28/2023 9:39:46 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: V_TWIN

You are right. She has the face of a 30 year old. Thanks Botox. But wikipedia says she is actually 62.


16 posted on 12/28/2023 9:42:21 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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RELATED — Black Trump Supporter on Confederate Statue Removal: Democrats Erasing Their Own Racist History

https://rumble.com/v43u23f-black-trump-supporter-on-confederate-statue-removal.html
17 posted on 12/28/2023 9:42:57 AM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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To: Responsibility2nd

She’s Lebanese.

Hair color from a bottle, eye color brown/hazel, maiden name Hazouri.

She craps on Southern history because she has no connection to it. The people she reviles are the descendants of the people who actually settled the South and made it possible for her to run for “Mayor” of a city on a continent that had no such notion in existence before the Evil Southern Crackers showed up.

Her entire status in life is based on the government concepts they instituted. So by what right does she obliterate their past, and claim to have rights to lord over them? By pretending to be one of them by the use of cosmetics?


18 posted on 12/28/2023 9:43:42 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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The statue had a woman reading to kids.

Reading is the new racist.

19 posted on 12/28/2023 9:45:07 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: All

20 posted on 12/28/2023 9:45:53 AM PST by simpson96
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