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Chattanooga Seeks to Renounce Confederate Cemetery
Times Free Press ^ | 18 August 2017 | Staff Report

Posted on 08/20/2017 2:01:55 PM PDT by RetiredUSMC

Chattanooga is moving to renounce its position as a trustee of the Confederate Cemetery on East Third Street, according to a news release from Mayor Andy Berke's office.

"Our action today makes it clear that the City of Chattanooga condemns white supremacy in every way, shape and form," Berke said in the release.

"While we honor our dead, we do not honor the principle for which they fought. Our city should be invested in our future, not a discredited past. Confederates fought against America to preserve slavery. That is the truth, and we should no longer subsidize any myths to the contrary."

The release states the city is not on the deed for the land, but Berke also has asked City Attorney Wade Hinton to file paperwork to confirm Chattanooga is the city is no longer listed as one of the cemetery trustees.

Hinton said the city has allowed the Sons of Confederate Veterans to make repairs to the cemetery under the assumption the city owned the property. A review of records showed "this does not appear to be the case," Hinton said.

"There is no reason why we should have any responsibility for maintaining the Confederate Cemetery — a property we do not actually own."

The release said the terms of the cemetery trust have expired. It said the city will ask Hamilton County Chancery Court for a ruling on its status as a trustee and to determine who owns and must maintain the property.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: chattanooga; dixie; purge
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Mayor Andy Berke is a demonRAT Please call and email him with your views on this topic http://www.chattanooga.gov/mayors-office
1 posted on 08/20/2017 2:01:55 PM PDT by RetiredUSMC
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To: RetiredUSMC

Know people from there with very deep Southern roots. Not going to go over well.


2 posted on 08/20/2017 2:03:03 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump and Israel.)
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To: RetiredUSMC
Maybe they can find some books to burn while they're at it.


3 posted on 08/20/2017 2:04:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Booth Luce)
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To: RetiredUSMC

If we are going to stop maintaining the cemeteries of sinners, there will be no more cemeteries.


4 posted on 08/20/2017 2:04:57 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: RetiredUSMC

There are laws governing cemeteries and these trusteeships. They probably can’t just choose to bug out.


5 posted on 08/20/2017 2:07:03 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: madison10

Maybe they will dig it up, throw away the bones and head stones, and build low income housing.

I think that should be the Democrat platform in 2018.


6 posted on 08/20/2017 2:07:44 PM PDT by theoilpainter
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To: RetiredUSMC

We should have picked our own cotton.Would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble.


7 posted on 08/20/2017 2:07:52 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: RetiredUSMC

Yet more “community organizing.”


8 posted on 08/20/2017 2:08:56 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: RetiredUSMC
Inform Mayor Berke that his limo is out front...


9 posted on 08/20/2017 2:10:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: RetiredUSMC

Why don’t they renounce racist democRATs and their belief in slavery to the state.


10 posted on 08/20/2017 2:10:16 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: RetiredUSMC

11 posted on 08/20/2017 2:11:53 PM PDT by Salamander (Where is evil? Often where you least expect it.)
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To: RetiredUSMC

Oh, come on. They’re DEAD! I was driving from Chattanooga home to Manchester one afternoon when the clouds came down on Lookout Mountain, and I got the heebie-jeebies so bad I had to pull over for a while. 1995, I think it was. Our next-door neighbor in Manchester had a little cannon pointed up the Duck River in case the Yanks ever came back. Nice fella, gave me a Battle of Stones River coffee mug when we moved away.


12 posted on 08/20/2017 2:12:42 PM PDT by Tax-chick (You can't read all day if you don't start early in the morning.)
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To: RetiredUSMC

I sorry every time I see the leftist, racist, socialists gain ground in a world that is confounding otherwise good people with doublespeak and outright lies.

Shameful.


13 posted on 08/20/2017 2:13:09 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: RetiredUSMC

I’m really beginning to dislike these people.......


14 posted on 08/20/2017 2:13:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Farmer Dean

We did better than that....we invented the Cotton Gin.


15 posted on 08/20/2017 2:15:13 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RetiredUSMC

Pardon me, boy
Is this the Chattanooga ISIS?
Leftists must whine
Then tear down our shrine


16 posted on 08/20/2017 2:16:19 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: RetiredUSMC

Since Chattanooga can’t change the fact it sits in a Confederate State, I suppose by their logic they need to blow the city up and have everyone move to the North.


17 posted on 08/20/2017 2:17:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Maybe they can find some books to burn while they’re at it. “

Included would be “Gone with the Wind.”


18 posted on 08/20/2017 2:18:30 PM PDT by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: RetiredUSMC
What the hell is White Supremacy?

Is it any different than Black Supremacy or Muslim Supremacy?

19 posted on 08/20/2017 2:18:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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"Our action today makes it clear that the City of Chattanooga condemns white supremacy in every way, shape and form," Berke said in the release.

Tending to a cemetery makes that clear? What the hell is this guy going on about?

20 posted on 08/20/2017 2:18:48 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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