Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s start building monuments right next to them, dedicated to Benedict Arnold and other traitors, who were almost as treasonous as the members of the Confederate nation during their War of Southern Aggression (see, Teabaggers, I can play semantics, too!). And let’s have a few monuments in honor of the victims of Andersonville - you know, the prisoners of war who were decimated by the Noble South just as surely as those who died in the camps of WWII were killed by the Nazis.
“Standing next to the Beauregard statue, Goitia-Nicolas said he was willing to chain himself to statues to stop the removal.”
Works for me. Drag his sorry ass to the land fill right along with the statue. As a white New Orleans resident, I think it is time to remove these symbols of white supremacy. The duly elected city council voted that these monuments be removed and safely stored until a more suitable site could be found. If it were up to me, I would hook a chain fall to that statue of Robert E. Lee and drag it down Poydras Street to Lake Pontchartrain. It would make a great artificial reef.
In the flag that pink-shirted guy is holding in the photo–is that symbol just a cutesy-pie swastika?
Nobody has any choice as to who their ancestors are but everybody DOES have the choice whether to celebrate or scorn the actions of our ancestors. If I was related to one of these f-ing traitors, I would burn everything passed down and excoriate those ancestors in public at least once a year. Robert E. Lee committed TREASON against the nation that educated him and made him a general in its military, he should be shunned not celebrated.
As a southerner living near Raleigh which has a confederate memorial on capital square, it was interesting to recently be in two small towns in PA for business and see that both had civil war monuments honoring their folks that died in the war to preserve the union. Mifflintown and Lewistown. Seem like I’ve heard some folks from up north saying northerners didn’t really talk about the civil war that much, but looks like some do. At least they were on the right side of the conflict.
Mifflintown Juniata Co.
http://www.pa69irish.com/Juniata.html
Lewistown
Those Trump supporters are quick to respond.
Lee staring down the North.
Yeah, that’s what he was doing as Pickett’s broken soldiers streamed back to the line at Gettysburg.
Threats of violence, check. For a political purpose, check. Intended to intimidate the government and the general population, check. Not entirely random, so these people are somewhere on the line between domestic terrorists and insurrectionists. Sure is a good thing the supreme court has declared racism is no longer a problem.
They would make a great artificial reef.
This seems like the perfect opportunity for some earth-moving type of exercises by the Army Corps of Engineers. They have the equipment, the expertise and, most importantly, the ability to provide a security perimeter sufficient to deter all the white supremacist cowards. Provide the service to the City of New Orleans free of charge. We STILL owe the city big time for dropping the ball pre- and post-Katrina.
There’s precedent for taking care of these things. Almost exactly 50 years ago: