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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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To: simpson96

Why is that whenever Bido gets a female, he has a death grip lock on her so she doesn’t get away? (And where is his left hand, hmmm?)


21 posted on 12/28/2023 9:49:24 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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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing like ripping open the past...only shows how much prejudice still exists toward the south....thanks to Obama who started all this cr**.


22 posted on 12/28/2023 9:51:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: simpson96

Proof that she is a piece of leftist trash


23 posted on 12/28/2023 9:52:30 AM PST by jpp113
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To: ChicagoConservative27
From October 2023 "Jacksonville ranked in the top 10 U.S. cities for high homicide rates, study shows".

But, sure, remove a statue.

24 posted on 12/28/2023 9:54:14 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Casey DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"She has the face of a 30 year old" No.....she does not
25 posted on 12/28/2023 9:55:32 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Wdempsey

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

yeah, the southerners were all for states rights; except when it came to the Fugitive Slave Act, when they were all for the federal governent involving themselves in returning their escaped slaves...


26 posted on 12/28/2023 9:56:59 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Wdempsey

>> Where’s our governor?

Out on the campaign trail acting like a desperate jackass. Floridians? Meh. He was born to be greater than Florida.


27 posted on 12/28/2023 10:03:10 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: DesertRhino
Women are temperamentally unfit for leadership in government. They think and act like mommies.

Well put. Terribly politically incorrect, but well put.

28 posted on 12/28/2023 10:05:54 AM PST by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It satisfies the Karens and Kevins. It does nothing to help anyone. Just like removing the image of Aunt Jemima and the Indian maiden from the label didn’t help anything.


29 posted on 12/28/2023 10:10:29 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It will waste a couple hundred thousand tax dollars. The statue of a woman reading a book (the Bible?) to two darling children is soooo scary and triggering!!!!


30 posted on 12/28/2023 10:13:43 AM PST by bgill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The former news reader.


31 posted on 12/28/2023 10:14:05 AM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: Skywise

All the most ardent Confederates prophesied has come to pass. In hindsight, they should’ve fought on vía guerrilla actions. Lee, while a hero and a great general most of the time, made a bad decision in folding…. I think had he for seen the future, he likely would’ve fought on.


32 posted on 12/28/2023 10:20:35 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://youtu.be/-UschvjHgT4?feature=shared


33 posted on 12/28/2023 10:20:45 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: V_TWIN

I have 20 year old work boots that look better than that.


34 posted on 12/28/2023 10:21:25 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

SCUM.


35 posted on 12/28/2023 10:24:53 AM PST by MagaMatt (Sapere aude.)
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To: DesertRhino

and men never tear down statues?......


36 posted on 12/28/2023 10:27:08 AM PST by cherry
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Let it repeat perpetually the imperishable story of our women of the ’60s, those noble women who sacrificed their all upon their country’s altar.

A monument for the Women of the'60s.

37 posted on 12/28/2023 10:33:25 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That woman is the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida.

What will she say when it is discovered that her city was named after slave owner Andrew Jackson; and that same Jackson killed Indians.

Will she say, “Welcome to Jacksonville, the Bold New City of the South?”


38 posted on 12/28/2023 10:39:34 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: IrishBrigade
“yeah, the southerners were all for states rights; except when it came to the Fugitive Slave Act, when they were all for the federal governent involving themselves in returning their escaped slaves...”

You do know that the act was an enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Clause of the United States Constitution - the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution that President Lincoln took an oath twice to protect and defend?

Correct me if I'm wrong: of the original 13 slave states, 13 of them voted to incorporate the Fugitive Slave Clause into the constitution at the founding.

39 posted on 12/28/2023 10:46:12 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats put the statues up. Now, Democrats are taking them down.


40 posted on 12/28/2023 10:49:21 AM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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