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None of the statues of southern traitors were erected to "acknowledge mistakes". They were all put up to celebrate those traitors. |
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Woodrow Wilson was not a traitor. He was a president. He was a scholar. He supported womens' suffrage and the League of Nations. His racism was only one part of his personna. Should we have removed his statue from Princeton University? Or should Black Americans walk by it every day as proof he was wrong about race. Don't remove it and hide it; talk about it.
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![]() AND to try and intimidate those protesting about and wanting to eliminate...Jim Crow laws. ![]() |
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I just love the way some just skim over the posts they don't like or agree with.
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I have a better idea. Are you standing up...after watching this? And this certainly isn't...55+ years ago. ![]() |
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We should remove ALL statues in this country. Someone is always offended by something.
We could replace them all with pacifier statues. |
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Sad isnt it
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#129
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Where was all this hate for historic statues/etc last month? Last year?
I say once again to be concluding the intent of history using the current social yard stick is unfair/inaccurate/wrong. The current upheaval is once again sponsored by minority and special interest groups driven by a political/personal agenda, validated and promoted by the same political supported media. |
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This is the greatest country in the history of the world where we have more freedom and chance to make something of ourselves with people wanting to come here by the millions and yet so many of our citizens hate this country. Do some groups have it more difficult than others. Yes but they have the opportunity to help themselves but do not see how destruction is the answer. Burn down my business, cause me to lose my job, block the roads does that really going to get people to look at a cause more favorably? |
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LI SNOWBIRD LI, Tall Trees "Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." Plato |
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So you are now the great emancipator. You don't have the right to tell me, or anyone, what we should know about our history. I want to know it all, otherwise we will make the same mistakes. If you had it your way, I guess you wouldn't even teach history. As long as race is used as an excuse to make bad or no decisions about your life, you will always lose and racism will not go away. As long as you used race, injustice, or whatever to burn, loot, and hurt other people you are the problem so it will not go away. Instead of removing something about our history, why not add something. All I see is all these people, you included, tell us all of the problems, but I don't see any useful solutions. Certainly, tearing down statues, burning businesses, looting, hurting people and taking over city blocks are not solution. Or, I ask you , are they?
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Please note that this article was written in 2017. ![]() Opposition to confederate statues and flags (poke here) Quote:
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They're too valuable as a learning & teaching moment...to do that. Just take them off of school grounds, courthouses and other prominent public locations, put them where school children can make field trips...and learn the actual history behind those statues and monuments. ![]() |
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