I guess we'll have to sen d in the Apaches...................
Posted on 04/02/2018 7:23:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Over the decades, this quiet coastal hamlet has earned a reputation as one of the most liberal places in the nation. Arcata was the first U.S. city to ban the sale of genetically modified foods, the first to elect a majority Green Party city council and one of the first to tacitly allow marijuana farming before pot was legal.
Now it's on the verge of another first.
No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
"Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century.
Peters, who heads the Arcata-based Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People, called McKinley a proponent of "settler colonialism" that "savaged, raped and killed."
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against their very existence.
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Mao, Che, Marx, Lenin, Alinsky.........................
Were you here? Were you in Alachua, Olustee or Tallahassee? Seriously? I’ve done more than my part in standing for my Southern Heritage. Just look at my posts here and see my defenses of the Southern cause and people.
Wait until the Indians start demanding the end of “cultural appropriation” by the white men and demand reparations for using Indian names for states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois, etc., and for insulting state names like Indiana.
The Lincoln lovers who refer to Davis, Lee, Jackson and Beauregard as “traitors”.
I guess we'll have to sen d in the Apaches...................
If General Lee can be trashed, then ANYONE can be trashed.
The are going to replace MT Rushmore with the Village People.
Slang for just about everyone brainwashed by government schools over the years as to the cause of the Civil War, ie the freeing of the slaves.
they already are removing jackson from the $20
they will be replacing George on the $1 next, probably be
the MLK version
MLK was a misogynist and thought all lives mattered. He needs to go.
What does one have to do with the other?
For the record I only consider davis a traitor.
How clever, LA Slimes puts anyone opposing the removal of a Confederate statue in the basket of deplorable white supremacists. F U LA SLimes. Stereotype much?
How?
I see what you did there.....................
Oh, good - no one from FreeRepublic.
So its someone else's job to actually show up and defend the confederate monuments for you, is that it?
Tote that barge, lift that bale...
The demonization of our Southern heroes has continued unabated since the 1960’s. When someone is viewed as less than, it’s very easy to tear down the remnants of their sacrifice.
So I need to be everywhere and at every event? I work weekends and I’ve taken weekends off away from my family to go to events. I don’t know what your problem is.
Sounds like we're talking past each other...so you did your part locally, got it.
All good, Sir.
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