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Austin Considering Name Change Due to Slaveholding Past(TX)
townhall.com ^ | 7/29/2018 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 07/29/2018 8:28:48 AM PDT by rktman

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To: ZOOKER

Oh. Yeah they’re thinking all of a sudden about Texas war of independence

Psshht

They’re not thinking about all the people named Austin. What are they supposed to do? These people don’t care about that nor about the abortion mills set up in Austin.

Austin will still be the creepy town we have to go through to get to baylor and A&M while blessing ourselves with holy water all the way no matter what name they give it. And it is creepy NOT because of Stephen Austin.

I do need to go see the Stevie Ray statue sometime


21 posted on 07/29/2018 8:59:36 AM PDT by stanne
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To: rktman

Petrograd or Leningrad are available.


22 posted on 07/29/2018 8:59:42 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Or Stalingrad.


23 posted on 07/29/2018 9:01:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman; DiogenesLamp; central_va; Pelham; rustbucket
“In the latest efforts to rectify America's history of its slaveholding past, Austin’s Equity Office suggested that the Texas capital change its entire name in addition to removing statues and street signs in honor of Confederate soldiers.”

Austin was not a Confederate so this is no longer about dishonoring Confederates.

This is about dishonoring anyone that had a servant bound to service - Austin, defenders of the Alamo, and yes, George Washington, Ben Franklin, et al.

Soon, it will be about dishonoring those that fought in the old segregated United States army, including those that waded ashore on D-Day. Those monuments and headstones in Arlington - take them down.

According to the former First Lady, the proud history did not begin until her husband was elected president in 2008.

24 posted on 07/29/2018 9:04:04 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Slyfox

Hillary, Texas?

Nah, they just don’t sound right.

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Well they could return to the areas original name of
“Waterloo” in 1839 before it was renamed to”Austin”


25 posted on 07/29/2018 9:05:47 AM PDT by deport
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To: rktman

Utter nonsense.


26 posted on 07/29/2018 9:07:17 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Austin’s Equity Office suggested that the Texas capital change its entire name

....Beyond asanine from the pink panty putz crowd. What morons!

27 posted on 07/29/2018 9:09:08 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: rktman

That’s fine. The Texas legislature should decree that if Austin does change its name, the capital will move somewhere else.


28 posted on 07/29/2018 9:13:34 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: rktman

This sounds like a sick leftist satire joke. Austin is the state capital of Texas so the full blown leftist loons in Austin don’t get to make this type of a decision in a vacuum without the rest of the great state of Texas weighing in on such an asinine and idiotic idea.


29 posted on 07/29/2018 9:23:39 AM PDT by Ron H.
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To: rktman

Ciudad Che Guevara?


30 posted on 07/29/2018 9:28:40 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Boomer

The best thing that could happen is to put them all on a rocket ship to the moon and then forget that they’re up there.


31 posted on 07/29/2018 9:33:33 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: rktman

The left employs an incremental approach to get their demented views into the culture. That’s how LGB has now transformed into LGBTQWXYZ or whatever it is now. Soon, they’ll be adding a P for pedophiles. If Austin goes, the next target is Washington, since he was a slaveowner, too. These people are really a sick bunch.


32 posted on 07/29/2018 9:38:25 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: rktman

Maybe they will just flip sides on independence from Mexico, and rename the place Santa Ana.

After all, Mexico has now elected an open socialist.


33 posted on 07/29/2018 9:44:27 AM PDT by BeauBo
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Why not rename Texas, Texico and a friendly gesture to Mexico?


34 posted on 07/29/2018 9:52:12 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rktman

Isn’t there a saying, “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it”?

So, they are trying to eradicate anything that ever had anything to do with slavery. I suppose this is so they can promote human trafficking with clear consciences or something. (Is Austin a sanctuary city?)


35 posted on 07/29/2018 9:55:58 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: rktman

Leftist Shithole City


36 posted on 07/29/2018 10:02:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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p01b

Leningrad is now available.

37 posted on 07/29/2018 10:06:31 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Leningrad is now available.

And, if the authorities kept them, the signs could probably be purchased very cheap ...

38 posted on 07/29/2018 10:17:37 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: Mozzafiato

Yeah, but we read someplace the “L’s” want to be taken off because of X-genders or something.


39 posted on 07/29/2018 10:30:58 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: dfwgator

Tavon Austin...plus he now plays for the Cowboys!

You might remember him coming out of the smoke with his posse, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”, while on the Rams back in 2014.


40 posted on 07/29/2018 10:53:52 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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