Trump: More pain for White Supremacists and Neo Nazis, who incidentally are The Real Patriots. Obama and HIllary will not stop.
Nor will the millions of rational other Americans who reject hate, NAZIism, white supremacy, and intolerance and who value diversity, and cherish freedom.
Dred Scott
How about a compromise since many "very fine people"can’t seem to let go of their culture & history. Leave them up but make them representative of who and what they actually were. Make the images in the mold of their inner ugly.
ETA: with plaques to match
And for “both sides” : " Thomas Jefferson was a major slaveowner!"
Maybe replace the statue with one of Sojourner Truth? After all, she won. He lost.
I wondered how Bill Frist had inserted himself into another debate when I read that. Disappointed.
Like I suggested yesterday, they need to drop-ship all of these Confederate statues and monuments to the nearest Cockholster property with no return address. They’d be a great addition to the Dictator Chic theme.
Then again, has Mango Mussolini picked out a site for his Precedential* (or is it Predisential?) Library yet?
*Who knew that spelling President was so hard?
Want to fill the “hole” where US traitor RE Lee statue used to rest?
Get a statue of US Gen. George Henry Thomas, Union hero and native VIRGINIAN who followed through on his constitutional oath and remained in the service of the US Army, unlike the sanctimonious cracker Lee.
Traitors typically aren’t memorialized with statues, excepting the civil war traitors that is.
And yes, that is exactly what they were and what their confused followers are, simple traitors disillusioned with versions of patriotism that are biased and bigoted.
I think that, instead of a library, it will be called a twitterary.
Didn’t Stephen Miller go to Duke?
Why, yes. Yes, he did. Probably not someone that will be awarded “alum of the year” any time soon.
And disowned by his family for the trouble. They didn’t even attend his funeral, if my memory serves correctly.
Lee wasn’t one of the figures represented at the chapel because of the Civil War.
He was there because he has long been considered a Southerner of great personal honor and rectitude, two character traits missing from 90% of today’s public figures.
As has been said before here, Lee was a complex man and one who should not be judged solely on the basis of the War.
I wonder when they will list him as “deceased” in the Alumni Directory ala Scaramucci?
¿¡Que?! That’s entirely too much like saying Hilter shouldn’t be judged solely on the basis of World War II. Who gives a shit how “complex” he was?
Smart people who don’t make knee-jerk reactions.
You should read up on him—he was a decorated US Army veteran who led the troops who defeated John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, among other things.
On the decision to remove the statue:
Not everyone agreed with Hogan, either. Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) lashed out at the governor in a letter Thursday for not holding a public hearing on whether to remove the statue.
Miller, an avid reader of history who also sits on the State House Trust board, said the memorial should stay put to help educate people about the past. He credited Taney for “anti-slavery words and actions,” saying that “unlike George Washington who freed his slaves upon his death, Taney freed his slaves early in his life.” He also noted Taney’s many roles in public service, including state lawmaker and attorney general, U.S. secretary of war, U.S. attorney general and U.S. treasury secretary.
Lee and Taney will not be remembered by most people for the admirable things they did. Sadly, too many out there will never learn from history.
I would say that Taney’s reputation is harder to redeem than Lee’s, because he was far less well-known even during his lifetime.