RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Protesters pulled down a more than century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, damaging a huge rebel monument as demonstrations continued following the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.
Right down the road from me. Good work
Trump wants to rename his new moronic Space Force’s headquarters base after the traitor Jeff Davis, Fort Jefferson Davis, because Davis was a great American military hero, according to Trump, also a traitor…and sexual predator, and friend to neo-Nazis, “strongly endorsed” for re-election by that great American hero David Duke, and with the assistance of America’s “best friend” Vlad Putie.
I like loser civil war generals who DON’T get captured.
Quite unusual for the leader of a rebellion to be left alive, much less preserved in statuary. Long overdue.
https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Ray-Ciccarelli-quits-NASCAR-bans-Confederate-flags-15331787.php
HE’s never won a race and finished in the top 10 just once.
For about 10 days I had been thinking that political demonstrations in the American context don’t work (as they haven’t for, oh, 50+ years). But now it’s beginning to look as if this is on par with the Ukraine’s Maidan in 2014 or the Czech velvet revolution.
Local and state governing bodies are racing with unprecedented speed to pass unprecedented legislation just to keep up with a largely leaderless movement with no really prominent or “designated” spokespeople (unlike, say, MLK, Jr., with the civil rights movement). I would have thought leaderless movements with no connection to institutional mechanisms just wouldn’t work in the US. But it has.
And one of the sure signs is the toppling of the statues of the old regime, just as it happened with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Jefferson Davis, Robert Lee, bunch of traitor surrender monkeys.
Could we have a Trump statue erected somewhere so we could topple it?
A protester in his 30s was hit in the head as the monument fell, causing him to lose consciousness
Vandalism, even in the cause of a noble principle, is a dangerous, stupid business.
I’m sure there were a number of Ciccarellis who fought for the confederacy. /s
These dead conservative traitors and racists betrayed and tried to destroy America. They should not be glorified in the public square.
Not at all. None of these would be coming down if it weren’t for some people taking risks.
Look at the Lee statue in Richmond. Pledge to take it down, immediately blocked by a court.
The protesters are doing it the way that actually gets it done.
When you see images of the Confederate Flags flying proudly remember this is the GENUINE Confederate Flag that represents the authentic history of the Confederacy:
The only statue left on Monument Avenue will be Arthur Ashe. Praise the Lord!
No, but there were plenty of treasonous racist shitheels, so solidarity.
One of the maybe irrelevant (from a moral point of view) but interesting points about the Army’s naming bases after Confederate generals is they didn’t even always choose capable ones. Fort Bragg is I think the largest base in the Army. Braxton Bragg was distinctly sub-mediocre. Camp Pickett: named for George Pickett of Pickett’s charge, one of the stupidest military maneuvers in the history of warfare. You don’t see statues in England to Lord Cardigan commemorating the futile charge of the light brigade (although you do have Tennyson’s poem).
The fact that the Army chose whatever name lay at hand to label the bases shows how desperate they were to mollify the old Confederacy. Maybe now they should rename the bases after, say, General Benjamin Butler, an abolitionist who took no nonsense from the Confederate territories he occupied (and was thus vilified).
Or Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who literally saved the Union at Gettysburg. How come HE never had a major facility named after him?
Or General George Thomas, “the Rock of Chickamauga.” He was a Virginian who split with his siblings to support the Union.
C’mon Army, get to work.
Every lawless action has a price. There will be blood.
You’re right. The lawless taking of lives does have a price, and we’re seeing that on the streets now.
Are you sure you aren’t actually me posting as someone else? Because these are eerily familiar thoughts.