Posted on 07/14/2015 5:54:37 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A California senator’s efforts to wipe the names of Confederate heroes from public spaces will now exclude cities, a reprieve for the tiny town of Fort Bragg in Mendocino County.
But that has not stopped Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, from recommending a name change for the coastal community of about 7,300 residents, which has been unexpectedly thrust into the national debate over the public memorialization of the Confederacy.
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This whole anti-Confederate thing is a golden opportunity for every self-satisfied, moralizing phony in America to strike a pose for the mob, and it’s all a major load of horse sh*t.
F*ing retards.
exactly. This is all a distraction from the divider in chiefs failed foreign policy and other failed national policies while striking up yet again another mob mentality.
No blacks rioted so now they have to use the flag as an issue.
But yet there are still not protests over:
Blue Ball, PA
and
Intercourse, PA
Roger that. I rode the Skunk Train once, from Fort Bragg to Willits and back. I was amazed how many people live deep in the forest, and their only mode of transportation, is the Skunk Train.
How did they get into the WH if this is so?
“How did they get into the WH if this is so?”
Suckers!
On the list of communist goals. Erase history.
Who’d pay for this?
Every once in awhile they change the name of a street around here. Somebody once told me that they don’t like to do it because it’s a real pain in the butt for people who live on the street and especially businesses. They all have to change their address and let people know. Stationary, business cards, yellow pages, maps, real estate records, publications,road signs and stuff I’m not even thinking of.
Imagine doing that for a whole town or city. It’s not just the signs at the entrance to the city, although some of those can be pretty fancy and thus expensive.
Many years ago I took a busload of Republican Staffers from the State Capitol (on their time off) to walk precincts in the towns up and down Mendocino County. I often say about Fort Bragg, it's like the story of the tourist asking for directions and the farmer pauses to think for a minute and tells him, "You cain't git there from here." That's Fort Bragg. It's so remote that, "You cain't git there from here." Beautiful area though. Too bad it's populated with commies and hippies.
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you: what does the flag represents?
lib: slavery.
you: but the flag was only flown for 4 years and slavery had been in the world for thousands of years before that.
lib: it represents slavery in the south.
you: slavery in the south was started under the American flag. the confederate flag was in opposition to the norths tyranny over states rights. therefore the flag is a symbol of rebellion against tyranny
lib: umm...
you: are you in favor of federal tyranny? you realize this is an example of it, right?
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or ...
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you: why do you want to ban the confederate flag?
lib: because it represents slavery
you: oh. yea. slavery is bad. we should also ban any symbols of the institution that supported US slavery.
lib: yes
you: the same institution that supported the KKK
lib: yes
you: did you know that institution even got a grand wizard (or whatever) KKK guy into the senate?
lib: they did?
you: yup. and he was still there until a few years ago.
lib: well, it’s good he’s gone.
you: yes. and we should shutdown and ban that institution as it represents and indeed, started the whole mess
lib: Yes!
you: good. then you’d be in favor of disbanding it and hunting down any members so we insure they’re no where in our government?
lib: YES! what institution was that?
you: the democrat party.
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Army St in San Francisco got changed to Caesar Chavez Blvd
Cesar Chavez Signs Go Up On S.F.’s Former Army Street
Steve Rubenstein
Saturday, April 1, 1995
With a tug on a white rope and more than an hour of speeches and songs, the first of 100 street signs marking newly renamed Cesar Chavez Street was unveiled yesterday in San Francisco.
The ceremony took place at the corner of Chavez and Folsom streets, which, until the rope was pulled, had been known as the corner of Army and Folsom.
“Every day you look at that street sign, you should feel great,” said Supervisor Susan Leal, one of the backers of the drive to rename Army Street, to the crowd of 250 celebrants in the parking lot of St. Anthony’s Church.
Supervisor Tom Ammiano said the new signs represent a “reclaiming, not a renaming.”
“For years, we’ve had institutions named for whites and males. It’s time for education and balance,” he said.
That highway between Willits and Fort Bragg really is treacherous. I did not like it at all. If you go over the side there, it might take them 10 years to find you. Mendocino country does indeed have breath taking beauty, but when I got to Fort Bragg, I thought they were stuck in the 19th century. I did not think it was a modern city at all.
same as those blacks, not all of them but many shut white privilege and yet who has affirmative, action, racial quotas, black schools, negro funds etc.
Minorities get jobs, college placements, and promotions based on their minority status.
Sounds nothing like white privilege.
At least American children are finally learning some history. I bet 90% couldn’t name one Confederate on their own. Hell, the majority might be able to place the war in the correct century. What a country!
Ft. Bragg is in the heart of the Mendocino forest where the post “Summer of Love” hippies migrated during the 70’s to grow pot and live off the land. They also have a perennial movement going on to form a new State out of northern California and southern Oregon called “Jefferson”. The local NPR station in Ashland, OR, calls itself “Jefferson Public Radio”.
Rename Ft. Hood as Ft. Thomas in commeration of Thomas’s defeat of Hood.
Rename Bragg as Sherman in commemoration of Sherman defeating Bragg at Atlanta.
Me and Mrs. GSWarrior were in Mendocino/fort Bragg over the weekend for our anniversary. Would love to retire in Fort Bragg.
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