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He was in fact 2 faced on slavery.99.999% incorrect.
He was in fact 2 faced on slavery.99.999% incorrect.
And that's why I love this country, you have your opinion, I have mine, peace.
I lived in North Texas for ten years, and I am aware of those small towns.
Sorry, but Nathan Bedford Forrest should not get a statue on the public dime, I don't even care if Forrest's great great grandchildren still live there.
Let them put up a statue in the front yard of their home.
It's not uproar...you just don't get it.
"Free negroes" live in Forrest's hometown now. Why should they be subjected to a statue honoring the man who inspired others to hunt them down like beasts of the field and slaughter them?
That's LOCAL uproar.
A. Lincoln was two faced on the slavery issue; typical Republican that can never be trusted.
First GOP POTUS & in the end got what he deserved; and that wasn't a statue .............
So since people are concerned about "forgetting history" when Confederate statues are taken down, why don't we replace them with statues of Abraham Lincoln? Then we're still remembering history.
If the local community where the confederate statues are located wants to keep them, fine. If the local community wants them removed, fine. I think this whole thing should be decided by the local community with everyone else who isn't part of that community staying completely out of it.
No community should be pressured one way or the other. Let them decide on their own.
Nope I don't think all of them were. That is a fact, you thinking you know what they all thought is an opinion.It's not an opinion. It's a fact. You think they weren't racists? Lol
Nope I don't think all of them were. That is a fact, you thinking you know what they all thought is an opinion.
Because it honors racists
If the local community wants a statue of hitler... is that ok?
So since people are concerned about "forgetting history" when Confederate statues are taken down, why don't we replace them with statues of Abraham Lincoln? Then we're still remembering history.
Personally, I don't give a darn what ever statue a community puts up. Unless it is in my community, neither should anyone else. Why is it that most Americans think they always know best for other Americans. That outsiders want to run the lives of other people to suit the outsiders views and not necessarily the views of the community.
In case you hadn't notice, this thread is about confederate statues, not Hitler statues. You must have glossed over that or didn't read it. I don't think I have any right to tell someone from New York what statues they can have and which one's they can't. It seems you think you have the right to tell everyone regardless of where they live what statues they can have and which they can't. Like you are the ultimate approving authority that over rides what ever a community decides.
There are so many social problems today we do not need to waste our time unrealistically
judging people of the past by our modern standards.
The key to dealing with Forrest, whatever your perspective or how twisted your conclusions might
have developed in the past, is to study the records and the actions of the man.
Give the General a fair look. He could have lived with the score.
No other soldier in any wars fought by men born of American soil was so praised by both those who
wrote history, those who fought against him and those who fought on his side.
I think we should put up statues of abolitionists who stood up against these men. People like Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, John Brown, Charles Turner Torrey, Frederick Douglass and many others. Lincoln is a good choice. But he wasn't the only abolitionist.
So since people are concerned about "forgetting history" when Confederate statues are taken down, why don't we replace them with statues of Abraham Lincoln? Then we're still remembering history.
Can vote here no option that spells out even close to what I think. Leave history as it is, why hide or try and rewrite it.
The liberals are so funny.Why didn't they demand the statues be taken down when Obama was President
Yeah we do. Kids look at those statues
Why stop with the confederate generals how about Washingtom, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe & Jackson?
Afterall they were oppressive slave owners too! Let's erase all history until the politically correct 'age of
diversity' which IMO began shortly after 1965, how's that sound?
The liberals are so funny.Why didn't they demand the statues be taken down when Obama was President
let me know if i need to explain the jim crow era and what it represented racially“The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.
curious about the timing, myselfIn 1956, Georgia redesigned its state flag to include the Confederate battle flag; and in 1962, South Carolina placed the flag atop its capitol building.
And that's why I love this country, you have your opinion, I have mine, peace.
If you fight for slavery you are racist. Duh