Confederate monuments being removed in NYC (Boston, Clinton: houses, wages, living in)

[Dangerous-Boy]

this is what happens when you buy made in china.

You get unemployment in the US which gives everyone time to be angry and blame others for their problems.

[double6's]

what's next?...Mount Rushmore?

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by Dangerous-Boy

this is what happens when you buy made in china.

You get unemployment in the US which gives everyone time to be angry and blame others for their problems.

You can blame the Clintons and the 90s Republican Congress, along with corporate leadership for that.

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

You can blame the Clintons and the 90s Republican Congress, along with corporate leadership for that.

And Americans for wanting everything *cheap*.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by Forest_Hills_Daddy

So what is your opinion on removing Confederate monuments, and displaying Confederate flags?

The monuments should never have gone up
and the flags should have all been left to rot in dusty attics.

[jbgusa]

Even a tile marking the center of the island of Manhattan is being targeted. This is at the Times Square station.



See Great Debate topic Confederate Symbolism; Time to Stop Nursing Grievances and Relitigating Past. Frankly this is blithering stupidity.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Dangerous-Boy

Urinate on John C Calhoun's grave!

I agree with urinating and defacating on his grave but not changing the name of Calhoun College at Yale University. Yale to change Calhoun College's name to honor Grace Murray Hopper. Enough with relitigating the slavery and secession crisis and the Civil War. Slavery is dead, dead and dead.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by pierrepont7731

And Americans for wanting everything *cheap*.

While that is certainly true, people used to be cheap stuff from Walmart, Woolworth's and other dime stores when it was MADE in the USA. In those days you had tariffs on goods made overseas, and stores didn't go out of their way to stock stuff in them made from other countries due to the tariffs.

Of course you could have always gotten luxury cars from Europe (it was luxury so people didn't care about the tariff). So I guess I'm saying I blame the Clintons and the 90s Republican Congress as they were the ones who actually made those deals. Americans liking cheap stuff before never made the country fall apart until NAFTA and the WTO. Remember not only did manufacturing get outsourced, so did customer service (to India). So did certain IT functions.

[NyWriterdude]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I agree with urinating and defacating on his grave but not changing the name of Calhoun College at Yale University. Yale to change Calhoun College's name to honor Grace Murray Hopper. Enough with relitigating the slavery and secession crisis and the Civil War. Slavery is dead, dead and dead.

Then there was no reason to keep Calhoun College named after him, if slavery is dead, dead, dead. Take those symbols of it out of the public domain.

Take down all the confederate symbols, as they lost the war and that country does not exist.

[proroc]

How about fixing the subways and roads first.