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originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Gryphon66
I'm beginning to think that there are people out there who do not want to be reminded of the lessons that history has taught us.
originally posted by: jjkenobi
The people trying to remove history think Trump is a Nazi and white people alive today are racist slave owners. For the life of me I can't understand why anyone cares what they think or pays them any attention.
originally posted by: Plotus
Here's my opinion. Flame away. Mexicans came here, illegally, began forming communities, the communities got bigger and protected their own, became voting blocks and paved the way for more to come. IE. Sanctuary cities and whatnot. Hoping to outnumber the whites at some point and take over by attrition. It's a factual plan. If the blacks can do the same thing with these removals and gain the upper hand in the voting base, they can vote themselves reperations and basically loot and sack the United States.
According to The Fayetteville Observer, Lafayette was to be the mascot of “Flip-Tap-Stack!” which is an effort to teach school children to empty the trash from their disposable cafeteria trays into trash cans and stack the trays for disposal.
originally posted by: Asktheanimals
I won't have any street names left in my city.
Early, Breckinridge, Cutshaw, Rodes, Pegram etc.
If you don't recognize any of those last names you get a D on American history from me.
This whole tear it down it offends someone thing has gone way too far already.
We have already indulged this urge like trying to silence a kid in a candy store who, after being told no once only screams louder.
They will never be satisfied so we may as well get used to their tantrums.
"The Creator of the Universe had stamped them, indelibly, with a different color and an inferior physical and mental organization"
Your town sounds lovely.
"The conditions of domestic slavery, as it existed in the South, had not only resulted in a great improvement in the moral and physical condition of the negro race, but had furnished a class of laborers as happy and contented as any in the world".
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: network dude
We own slaves today but we don't call them that, we call them migrant workers or immigrant labor.
United States Capitol[edit] There are eight Confederate figures in the National Statuary Hall Collection, in the United States Capitol. In the National Statuary Hall Collection, in the United States Capitol, each state has provided statues of two citizens that the state wants to honor. The following Confederate figures are among them, many in Confederate Army uniforms.[18] Dates reflect when the statue was given to the collection:[19][20] Robert E. Lee (Virginia, 1909)[21] Zebulon Baird Vance (North Carolina, 1916)[22] Edmund Kirby Smith (Florida, 1922) (Florida plans to replace this statue, but as of 2017 a replacement figure has not been chosen.)[23][24] Joseph Wheeler (Alabama, 1925)[25] Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Georgia, 1927)[26] Wade Hampton III (South Carolina, 1929)[27] Jefferson Davis (Mississippi, 1931)[28] James Z. George (Mississippi, 1931)[29] Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (Alabama, 1908) was replaced by a statue of Helen Keller in 2009[30]
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell
originally posted by: network dude
Cumberland schools cancel event with Lafayette mascot over slavery
www.wral.com...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Cumberland County’s interim schools superintendent this week canceled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a school environmental initiative because the program’s mascot, Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, owned slaves. 35 “I think in lieu of what’s going on around the nation and the sensitivity to issues concerning the history of slavery in the country, there was concern there that it may be offensive to some members of our community,” Superintendent Tim Kinlaw said, citing recent protests and violence surrounding Confederate Civil War monuments. Biographers say Lafayette, a Frenchman who was a major general in the Continental Army, was an abolitionist who purchased slaves with the intent of freeing them. In 1783, Fayetteville was the first of several towns in America to be named for him, and he visited with fanfare in 1825. Lafayette died in 1834, 27 years before the Civil War.
With all the political correctness of removing anything that had anything to do with slavery, we have this. A school function that used a historical figure as a mascot. Because this person was associated with slavery, he can't be used for this anymore. But what exactly were his ties to slavery? He was an abolitionist who bought slaves so he could free them. Sounds like a horrible guy. His history needs to be buried and never see the light of day./sarc.
Why ins't this celebrated instead of hidden due to "feelings"? It's only a matter of time before the idiots realize that towns bear the names of civil war generals. They will be next on the chopping block.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: network dude
Cumberland schools cancel event with Lafayette mascot over slavery
www.wral.com...
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Cumberland County’s interim schools superintendent this week canceled a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a school environmental initiative because the program’s mascot, Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette, owned slaves. 35 “I think in lieu of what’s going on around the nation and the sensitivity to issues concerning the history of slavery in the country, there was concern there that it may be offensive to some members of our community,” Superintendent Tim Kinlaw said, citing recent protests and violence surrounding Confederate Civil War monuments. Biographers say Lafayette, a Frenchman who was a major general in the Continental Army, was an abolitionist who purchased slaves with the intent of freeing them. In 1783, Fayetteville was the first of several towns in America to be named for him, and he visited with fanfare in 1825. Lafayette died in 1834, 27 years before the Civil War.
With all the political correctness of removing anything that had anything to do with slavery, we have this. A school function that used a historical figure as a mascot. Because this person was associated with slavery, he can't be used for this anymore. But what exactly were his ties to slavery? He was an abolitionist who bought slaves so he could free them. Sounds like a horrible guy. His history needs to be buried and never see the light of day./sarc.
Why ins't this celebrated instead of hidden due to "feelings"? It's only a matter of time before the idiots realize that towns bear the names of civil war generals. They will be next on the chopping block.
Sounds like local government at work, should they not have that choice?
originally posted by: Plotus
a reply to: intrptr
No education needed, I lived it ....
humanevents.com...
Clearly, the illegal immigrants at the day labor center didn’t want to be identified, since they were planning to take jobs at below-minimum wages and not pay taxes.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: network dude
We own slaves today but we don't call them that, we call them migrant workers or immigrant labor.
Take them back home and set them free!
originally posted by: network dude
Well, they do have that choice, and the used their ability to make that choice. I disagree and posted an opinion on it. Do you have an opinion on it?