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Ky. mayor: 2 Confederate statues to come down after Charlottesville
CBS News ^ | August 12, 2017 | AP

Posted on 08/12/2017 8:14:26 PM PDT by Trump20162020

The mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, says after the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, he is taking the steps to remove two Confederate-era statues from the lawn of a former courthouse.

Mayor Jim Gray tweeted Saturday he will ask the Lexington-Fayette County Urban County Council at its Tuesday work session to ask a state military commission for permission to take down the statues of John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge.

Gray tweeted he intended to make the announcement next week, but the "tragic events in Charlottesville" had accelerated his announcement.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: bluezones; charlottesville; dixie; jimgray; kentucky; lexington; purge; virginia
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To: reg45

I know this and didn’t he also achieve elected office again after the war at some point?

He commanded the Reserve Division of the Army of Tennessee under Lt. General Albert Sidney Johnston , who died at Shiloh . Breckenridge’s ‘Reserve’s were quickly called up into the hot fighting of the 1st day at Shiloh , battling up out of ravines into the peach orchards around what came to be known as ‘bloody pond’ , they formed the right hook of the Confederate trust that overwhelmed Sherman’s troops and sent them reeling and fleeing to a final prepared defensive line. And there Beauregard halted for the night , even though Col Forest told them the Yankee’s were reinforcing from Carlos Buell’s Army of Ohio coming across the river to aid Grant . They could have night attacked and won , but they held in place ,until being overrun and forced to retire on the 2nd day at Shiloh. GG survived it all . Upon retreat Breckenridge ( and Forest) held the advancing Yankees back until the main body of the AoT could retire back to Corinth . And these a-holes want to take his statue down ? If I was there it would be over my dead body .


41 posted on 08/13/2017 1:38:45 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: WKUHilltopper

...”Gray openly admits he’s a homosexual.”...

I am guessing, then, that he will not find any opposition to his plan. The homosexual community has had great success in moving into high places everywhere in this nation. Problem is, most of them are far to the left ideologically.


42 posted on 08/13/2017 3:06:57 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: aquila48

I believe Lexington, KY, has long been known as a welcoming community for gays. It is the home of the University of KY.


43 posted on 08/13/2017 3:08:56 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: WatchungEagle
...”Failure to stop the drive against Confederate symbols will inevitably lead to serious campaigns to remove Washington’s and Jefferson’s names, and then on from there to Lincoln for being racist, etc. There has got to be a more serious effort by conservatives to get active on this front now before the situation gets worse.”...

The sad thing is that what happened yesterday is symbolic of what happens when people begin to feel that no justice exists for them through the government or legal system, so the only thing left is to take the law into their own hands. When the very symbols of history, good or bad, begin to disappear, it is the same as erasing someone’s genealogy, making their culture a throw-a-way, dehumanizing them and their ancestors and favoring those who even might be lying about what truly happened throughout history in order to destroy and replace any good or evil, therein, that we might learn from, and basing what follows on lies and false history. This is dangerous and many people feel upset about it but keep their mouths shut for fear of retribution from big government and institutions. The common people in the US voted for Donald Trump because they sensed that high crimes and misdemeanors were not being prosecuted and that he was the last chance to turn back dictatorship in America. I fear that the hatred we saw yesterday is nothing compared to what people are feeling and keeping their mouths shut, because it seems, judging from the hateful media and the unwillingness of the Congress to stand up, that going to the polls was a futile act. Is dictatorship already in place through a deep state? That is the question on the minds of those who stay quiet, as well as those who were willing to commit the crime of hurting others yesterday. God help us.

44 posted on 08/13/2017 3:29:58 AM PDT by jazzlite
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To: Trump20162020

The US Government, the Justice System, and the Media are thoroughly corrupt. The US Constitution has been shredded beyond repair.

The Global Marxist cabal is succeeding beyond its wildest expectations in destroying the nuclear family, Judeo-Christian values, Christianity itself, the right to defend one’s self and one’s family, and yes, the destruction of the white race. If you can’t see that by now you need to wake the **** up.

The war started decades ago. The combatants are diametrically opposed. There is no “unity.” There is only victory or defeat.

And the way this war is going the forces of God-less Global Marxism will soon be forcing their opponents into an “Alamo” and ultimately, extinction.


45 posted on 08/13/2017 3:50:30 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Trump20162020

maybe we should all consider putting out lawn jockeys on our properties


46 posted on 08/13/2017 4:15:44 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live
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To: Trump20162020

Another invitation to incite violence.. leave things alone and no issues.


47 posted on 08/13/2017 5:06:20 AM PDT by maddog55 (After years of trying, you actually can't fix stupid.)
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To: Trump20162020

Monuments to MLK jr must be removed. They are racist to the core.


48 posted on 08/13/2017 5:07:15 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: VanShuyten

I guess every Sherman tank on display somewhere will have to be tossed into the sea.

Erasing history and helping the earf - a double joy for the typical dem. Since it’s military history even more I guess.


49 posted on 08/13/2017 5:15:01 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: kearnyirish2

If only our own gov-co wasn’t paying worthless people to have more of the same at our expense.


50 posted on 08/13/2017 5:15:59 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Trump20162020

The Dems are rewriting History...and RINOs are helping them....#FightforHistory


51 posted on 08/13/2017 5:31:26 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Trump20162020

Tampa Florida (with help from 3 RINOs on the Hillsborough County Commission). The statue is being moved to a private family cemetery in Brandon.


52 posted on 08/13/2017 5:42:25 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: wally_bert

I assume that is what the protesters were complaining about with their “We will not be replaced” chant.


53 posted on 08/13/2017 5:52:17 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: TTFlyer

How is it, that America, white America, black America and all that is in between never gave a hoot about the history of the Confederacy, there (brilliant) leaders, their bravery and gallantry as part of OUR COLLECTIVE memory of a terrible civil war?
Wasn’t it a reflection of our tolerance to at least HONOR those southerners who fought and lost? So they favored a wrong idea, but look where it got them? The Confederate flag is passe but it is a reminder of who and hat we were and indirectly reminds us that they’re idea failed.

Isn’t that part of our past?

Why remove statues?

Where will that take us? Will we move on to the Founding Fathers and begin removing them from historical sites because it does not suit our Political Correct agendas?

Where will the mutual respect go then?

Who are these idiots trying to change historical fact?


54 posted on 08/13/2017 6:00:27 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: WatchungEagle
Let them try this crap in Richmond, VA.

Johnny Reb will show up by the thousands!


55 posted on 08/13/2017 6:04:41 AM PDT by jaz.357 (Blithering Intellectual.)
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To: Trump20162020

Wow! John C. Breckinridge was a former Vice-President of the United States. John Hunt Morgan one of our greatest cavalry commanders.

And Breckenridge was instrumental in the negotiations with William T. Sherman to end the fighting in the southern theater.


56 posted on 08/13/2017 7:01:13 AM PDT by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Erasing history is easier than you thought especially with school indoctrination. Communists learned long ago to train the children while removing the parents. A couple of generations is all it takes. I look with fear at how we are removing free speech and history under the guise of providing safe spaces and non offense speech. One needs only to look to Canada to see where this is headed. Remove history and you remove the founding principles of this great nation. And that’s the goal, to totally destroy America by making our founding principles outdated so we can join the rest of the world in being under achievers.


57 posted on 08/13/2017 7:03:27 AM PDT by Boomer One ( ToUsesn)
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To: Frank_2001

Other morons. Apparently, there are many of them.


58 posted on 08/13/2017 8:50:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: petitfour

You can expect a huge growth in neo-nazism if that’s gonna be the attitude of conservatives to defending America’s heritage. If conservatives don’t do it, other people will and most young conservatives will choose to follow the people fighting rather than the people like you who make excuses not to fight.


59 posted on 08/13/2017 9:05:39 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: jazzlite

Fayette Co., KY, which includes Lexington, voted for Obama twice and voted for Hillary in 2016. Trump got only 41.7% of the vote (9% went to third party candidates).


60 posted on 08/13/2017 3:41:24 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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