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Tear 'Em Down: CNN Commentator Says Statues to Slave Owner George Washington Have To Go
Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/18/2017 5:36:31 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: HiTech RedNeck
We are very fortunate we had Taiwan because much of China's cultural heritage was saved for Taiwan's national museum.
21 posted on 08/18/2017 5:51:18 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Kaslin

Hopefully, the more these loons flap their yaps, the more people will turn against the dem/media complex.

Unfortunately, we have things like Romney, McCain, Rubio, Dick Morris, all lining up to support antifa and Black Lies Matter, so who knows what the outcome will be.


22 posted on 08/18/2017 5:52:32 AM PDT by euram
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To: Kaslin

Somebody should explain to her that the Democrats are the real racists. She would change her views if she just knew that.


23 posted on 08/18/2017 5:53:06 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: Kaslin

Having long ago lost the facility or inclination to do actual reporting, in their desperate attempt to recover market share, CNN is reduced to vulgarity passing as analysis.

Long tee, it won’t work. They’re going under because there are too many other sources of actual news.


24 posted on 08/18/2017 5:54:26 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: Travis McGee

Lincoln had a plan to return the freed slaves to Africa immediately after they had been freed but unfortunately, Fredrick Douglas talked him out of it.


25 posted on 08/18/2017 5:54:53 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It’s blond hatred to the point of stupidity. The Constitutional system allowed for Amendments, including the Amendment banning slavery. It sounds like these people ate their own brains.


26 posted on 08/18/2017 5:59:14 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: FrdmLvr

America balked at the proverbial 40 acres and a mule, so Douglas steered Lincoln into the worst of three worlds.


27 posted on 08/18/2017 6:04:27 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Kaslin
Slavery was a horrible institution. We fought our bloodiest war to end it.

Yes, slavery was horrible! But, NO! WE didn't fight it! It's over! WE had nothing to do with it! Nor did THEY! It's over!

By tearing down anything, doesn't change history! Again, it wasn't US!

I've been tempted to ask any one of these people to stand in front of any of these statues and see if any of them jump from their pedestals and attack and hurt them!

28 posted on 08/18/2017 6:06:43 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Morpheus2009

Well and so it did, but our dear lefties have undermined that “rock” such as it was. If legal prestidigitation can do anything to this constitution then it isn’t a bulwark either.

So wisdom may lurk in the “stupidity.”


29 posted on 08/18/2017 6:08:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Kaslin

What we are witnessing is the Muslim mentality here. Destroying historical monuments to bring down civilizations is a centuries old strategy.


30 posted on 08/18/2017 6:08:26 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

Be patient. We know that Jim Crow and later the welfare state were attempts to “control” the black population.

But who instituted that. Right. Democrats. Let the trail of rage bring them to “we have met the enemy and he is us.”


31 posted on 08/18/2017 6:11:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Kaslin

‘you’re not raising Monticello or Mount Vernon to the ground’

you’re absolutely right on, Matt; when you ‘raise’ something, it goes up into the air...


32 posted on 08/18/2017 6:12:14 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Neoliberalnot

Taking down confederate statues is a continuation of the war against white males.


33 posted on 08/18/2017 6:13:39 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: teeman8r

I bet the black unemployment rate during slavery was next to zero.


34 posted on 08/18/2017 6:13:47 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Road Warrior ‘04

And we have our own symbol bigotries. Will a swastika jump down and hurt us? It’s a matter of point of view.


35 posted on 08/18/2017 6:14:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

I don’t know if obligatory Democrats loathing their past is a bad thing!


36 posted on 08/18/2017 6:17:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Kaslin

George Washington never purchased a slave (he inherited them). He never voted for anything pro-slavery in the Virginia House. He had a field where the slaves could farm and keep all the profits for themselves. On his death, he set his slaves free.

I’d say all in all, Washington’s record on slavery, given where and when he came into the world, was pretty damn good.


37 posted on 08/18/2017 6:18:36 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Morpheus2009

‘It’s blond hatred to the point of stupidity’

definitely agree; after watching Kat Timpf get destroyed by a rock musician the other night, she was flushing right up to the roots of her dye job...


38 posted on 08/18/2017 6:20:18 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Wuli

It ends with a total socialist state intruding into every area of our lives. Bibles burned. Church buildings closed or used as government buildings. Compulsory sterilizations and abortions. State guidelines for what you must and must not teach your children. Etc.,etc.,etc.


39 posted on 08/18/2017 6:24:06 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: Kaslin

Native Americans had slaves — time to tear down any and all monuments to them, starting with that ridiculous “museum” (actually just a cultural activism center) in DC.

Oh and time to boycott all Indian casinos.


40 posted on 08/18/2017 6:25:08 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The UK has no death penalty, unless you are an 11 month old infant with no arrest history)
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