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Crew begins dismantling Confederate monument in Louisville
Yahoo news ^ | November 19, 2016 | Staff

Posted on 11/20/2016 9:06:24 AM PST by yoe

A work crew began to dismantle a Confederate monument in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, the mayor said, in the latest move to take down or relocate symbols of the slaveholding Southern Confederacy from the American Civil War.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer in a pair of messages on Twitter showed photos of figures that had been removed from the monument.

[snip]Students and staff members at the University of Louisville had said the memorial condoned slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: dixie; gregfischer; louisville; purge
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A nation that allows her citizens to distort their history because of Political Correctness for the few will regret their ignorance. According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves.

(DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT BLACK SLAVEOWNERS)

By Robert M. Grooms


1 posted on 11/20/2016 9:06:24 AM PST by yoe
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2 posted on 11/20/2016 9:10:43 AM PST by Emergencyawesome
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Shouldn’t we just kick Kentucky out of the country?


3 posted on 11/20/2016 9:13:38 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: yoe

just for your information.
The man on the image you posted wears mid-19th century clothes. Can’t be the man the text talks about (17th century).


4 posted on 11/20/2016 9:14:35 AM PST by SolidWood
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Sometime in the next eight years, we will rebuilt it bigger and better.


5 posted on 11/20/2016 9:15:05 AM PST by Ueriah
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....when will they demand MARGRET SANGER’s removal
from history for her obvious racist ideas,comments,teachings......???


6 posted on 11/20/2016 9:16:07 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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The monument isn't pictured in the article. I suppose that would be "racist." Anyway, here's a vintage postcard of the monument. Thank you, Mayor, for tearing it down!


7 posted on 11/20/2016 9:16:41 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SolidWood

It also appears to be a photographic image...


8 posted on 11/20/2016 9:18:07 AM PST by D Rider
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To: yoe

Ethnic Cleansing - Always a bad thing... unless it’s being done to white Christians.


9 posted on 11/20/2016 9:18:27 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Emergencyawesome

Can’t theses guys put up some new plaque explaining that Kentucky had slaves, it was a major dividing issue and cause of the war, that it’s wrong, that it goes against the Declaration of Independence, and that we are making America great again now? Destroying anything in history reminds me of what the Taliban did shortly before 911 to those statutes in Afghanistan.


10 posted on 11/20/2016 9:19:43 AM PST by Degaston
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To: yoe

I’ve always been torn on the issue of the Confederate flag and monuments to the Confederacy. It would be nice if the angry black supremacists would acknowledge those white Union men who fought and died for their freedom.


11 posted on 11/20/2016 9:20:56 AM PST by VermithraxPejorative
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It’s not racist if a black person does it.


12 posted on 11/20/2016 9:21:48 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Maybe they’d better tear down all the Colonel Sanders stuff in and around Corbin too. Because...fried chicken.


13 posted on 11/20/2016 9:22:40 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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It’s communistic to want to rewrite our nations history. Monuments don’t mean agreement. They are there to remind us


14 posted on 11/20/2016 9:22:53 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SolidWood

Yeppers.

It is possible that no image expense exist of the man in question.


15 posted on 11/20/2016 9:23:26 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: VermithraxPejorative

When seen through the lens of states’ rights, it is easy to defend the Confederacy and the monuments. Slavery is a separate issue; a couple of slave states fought for the North, and all of them had slavery at some point (it was outlawed in my state of NJ 15 years before the Civil War), so the Union flag should be just as offensive.

If they want to re-write or erase history, let them be thorough (not selective); get rid of the stars & stripes.


16 posted on 11/20/2016 9:25:51 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: yoe

Predigested memes! Better than thinking!


17 posted on 11/20/2016 9:27:14 AM PST by babble-on
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Preserving Southern Heritage

http://www.scv.org/
http://www.scvtexas.org/


18 posted on 11/20/2016 9:33:00 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: yoe

Next will be the Washingon Monument, Mount Rushmore, etc.


19 posted on 11/20/2016 9:37:28 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: VermithraxPejorative
"I’ve always been torn on the issue of the Confederate flag and monuments to the Confederacy."

You know, there was far more slavery under the US flag than under the Confederate flag.

20 posted on 11/20/2016 9:39:18 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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