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Kentucky city mayor: Confederate statues to come down after Charlottesville

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(CNN)The mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, is taking action to remove two Confederate-era monuments from his city's former courthouse after the deadly clashes in Virginia.

Mayor Jim Gray revealed his intention Saturday after the attack in Charlottesville. He said he planned to announce it this week, but the incident prompted him to declare his intentions earlier.
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Well done, Lexington. The Nazis are only hurting their own cause with their behavior, and, IMHO, they more they hurt, the better for America. :)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/13/us/ke...1317kentucky-confederate-monuments1153AMStory
 
danarhea said:
Well done, Lexington. The Nazis are only hurting their own cause with their behavior, and, IMHO, they more they hurt, the better for America. :)

Lexington mayor: Confederate statues to come down after Charlottesville - CNN
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Unitedwestand13 said:
This should be the response around the country to these white supremacists
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The statues and monuments to US veterans that fought under the Confederacy do not, by any means possible, represent or dignify the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi's, or the Alt-Right.
 
Beaudreaux said:
The statues and monuments to US veterans that fought under the Confederacy do not, by any means possible, represent or dignify the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi's, or the Alt-Right.
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They were put in place during the Segregationist, Jim Crow era, most 40 to 50 years AFTER the war and DURING the KKK era.

So yes by any means possible as if you understand what US means these men were not fighting for a UNITED States of America... :peace
 
Beaudreaux said:
The statues and monuments to US veterans that fought under the Confederacy do not, by any means possible, represent or dignify the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi's, or the Alt-Right.
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Actually they have nothing to do with the Civil war and they were built many years after to support racism and segregation of blacks. That is why those scum don't want them down. They all must come down or be moved to a place where their true motives are explained and they can serve as a reminder of our sordid past. Like the concentrations camps in Europe are preserved.
 
iguanaman said:
Actually they have nothing to do with the Civil war and they were built many years after to support racism and segregation of blacks. That is why those scum don't want them down. They all must come down or be moved to a place where their true motives are explained and they can serve as a reminder of our sordid past. Like the concentrations camps in Europe are preserved.
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What I think would be neat is to have them removed and donated to a museum grounds where Northern and Southern statues are placed on a giant chess board you could walk aorund with notations about not only the person on the statue but when, why and where it was erected and donated from.
 
Beaudreaux said:
The statues and monuments to US veterans that fought under the Confederacy do not, by any means possible, represent or dignify the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi's, or the Alt-Right.
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Monuments to veterans are usually placed on the battlefields or cemeteries. Monuments to southern traitors were placed on public land and town squares during Jim Crowe and have everything to do with white supremacy and revisionist history.
 
iguanaman said:
Actually they have nothing to do with the Civil war and they were built many years after to support racism and segregation of blacks. That is why those scum don't want them down. They all must come down or be moved to a place where their true motives are explained and they can serve as a reminder of our sordid past. Like the concentrations camps in Europe are preserved.
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Check your facts, not the current rhetoric.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Check your facts, not the current rhetoric.
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Those are the facts. You are the one spreading falsehoods. They are nothing but grim reminders of a hellish past that needs to be scrubbed from our cities and towns. Current events have shown we are not yet done wiping the stain those statues represent out of our society.
 
Wisdom said:
The Confederate veterans were not US veterans. The Confederacy was literally an enemy government that fought a war with the USA.
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You didn't read his link...did you?
 
The chaos had the desired effect.
 
apdst said:
You didn't read his link...did you?
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Nope. If someone has an actual point to make, then they should use their own words to make it. Linking to something on the net is meaningless because there is enough bull**** on the net that one can basically make any claim by citing to some lunacy or other on the net.
 
Beaudreaux said:
The statues and monuments to US veterans that fought under the Confederacy do not, by any means possible, represent or dignify the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi's, or the Alt-Right.
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The veterans in that particular war fought on the side that was trying to keep slavery legal. It's not especially difficult to see the appeal of these statues to white supremacist groups.
 
Moot said:
Monuments to veterans are usually placed on the battlefields or cemeteries.
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Not necessarily. There are numerous monuments in hundreds of cities, towns, and hamlets to the veterans that fought in wars that came from those locations. We have a monument in front of the old courthouse where soldiers mustered for the Confederacy, and a statue in front of our new county courthouse that are both for the veterans that fought in the Civil War.
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Moot said:
Monuments to southern traitors were placed on public land and town squares during Jim Crowe and have everything to do with white supremacy and revisionist history.
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That may be true in certain limited instances, but it is not true in the majority of instances. The picture of the monument above, as you can see, was put up in 2003.

Also, I would respectfully request that you refrain from using terms like "traitor" when referring to people, some that are my ancestors, that fought mostly for their family and their state. Jim Crow laws are gone. Those monuments are for the remembrance of the men that fought and their families that lost loved ones. The only one of the two of us displaying hate, is not me.
 
iguanaman said:
Those are the facts. You are the one spreading falsehoods. They are nothing but grim reminders of a hellish past that needs to be scrubbed from our cities and towns. Current events have shown we are not yet done wiping the stain those statues represent out of our society.
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That's what ISIS and others like them do - scrub history, by destroying monuments and statues that they do not like or that go against their vision of the world.

If the history of the US hurts you that bad to where it rises to the level of hatred where you feel the government should forcefully remove things you disagree with ... where does it end?

Think about that a few minutes.
 
Cardinal said:
[bpThe veterans in that particular war fought on the side that was trying to keep slavery legal.[/b] It's not especially difficult to see the appeal of these statues to white supremacist groups.
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Even the Federal troops? Good job.
 
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