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View Poll Results: What should happen to the statue of General Lee?
Take it down and destroy it! 25 11.16%
Take it down and donate to the Confederancy or Other Civil War Museum. 41 18.30%
Don't take it down, it's a part of the history of New Orleans. 123 54.91%
Don't take it down, I support who General Lee was. 35 15.63%
Voters: 224. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-23-2017, 01:31 PM
 
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When they get done with the statues they can start work on the Civil War reenactments and razing the remaining plantations that have tours and then go to burning a few books. They will find something.

Last edited by Gusano; 05-23-2017 at 01:31 PM.. Reason: Another typo

 
Old 05-23-2017, 02:21 PM
 
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When they get done with the statues they can start work on the Civil War reenactments and razing the remaining plantations that have tours and then go to burning a few books. They will find something.
And you can go back to your forum.
 
Old 05-23-2017, 03:11 PM
 
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When they get done with the statues they can start work on the Civil War reenactments and razing the remaining plantations that have tours and then go to burning a few books. They will find something.
No one is calling for the razing of plantations and the stopping of war re-enactments. The idea is that some people do not deserved to be honored. Re-enacting a battle is a historical demonstration. The plantations can serve the same purpose as the concentration camps that were kept after WWII. Not to glorify plantation life, but to show how messed up things were.
 
Old 05-23-2017, 03:18 PM
 
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Why haven't Christians urged for his statue to come down? What Nero did to Christians is worse than what any slaveholders did.
This is a profoundly ahistorical view of slavery in the US South. Read

The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist, c2014, Basic Books.

Subjects
  • Slavery -- United States -- History.
  • Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
  • African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
Summary
  • Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
Length
  • xxvii, 498 pages : index, chapter notes
An excellent economic & political overview.
 
Old 05-23-2017, 06:07 PM
 
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No one is calling for the razing of plantations and the stopping of war re-enactments. The idea is that some people do not deserved to be honored. Re-enacting a battle is a historical demonstration. The plantations can serve the same purpose as the concentration camps that were kept after WWII. Not to glorify plantation life, but to show how messed up things were.
Plantation life is ABSOLUTELY glorified. They have weddings and big fancy subdivisions around where black people were building this country for free. It's disgusting how people have ceremonies around these places and they don't even think about it. And it's overwhelmingly​ white people who adore them so much.
 
Old 05-23-2017, 06:11 PM
 
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Plantation life is ABSOLUTELY glorified. They have weddings and big fancy subdivisions around where black people were building this country for free. It's disgusting how people have ceremonies around these places and they don't even think about it. And it's overwhelmingly​ white people who adore them so much.
I'm taking it you haven't visited Whitney plantation?
 
Old 05-23-2017, 06:16 PM
 
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I'm taking it you haven't visited Whitney plantation?
Is that one of them that offers guided tours and tells you about them? I've been to one in elementary school and never gone to once since.
 
Old 05-23-2017, 07:47 PM
 
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No one is calling for the razing of plantations and the stopping of war re-enactments. The idea is that some people do not deserved to be honored. Re-enacting a battle is a historical demonstration. The plantations can serve the same purpose as the concentration camps that were kept after WWII. Not to glorify plantation life, but to show how messed up things were.
They are not calling for it--yet.
 
Old 05-24-2017, 07:22 AM
 
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Is that one of them that offers guided tours and tells you about them? I've been to one in elementary school and never gone to once since.
They actually have a cemetery with the names of all the slaves and a museum talking about the slave trade. The whole museum is devoted to slavery and talking about how bad it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitne...toric_District
 
Old 05-24-2017, 07:23 AM
 
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This is a profoundly ahistorical view of slavery in the US South. Read

The half has never been told : slavery and the making of American capitalism / Edward E. Baptist, c2014, Basic Books.

Subjects
  • Slavery -- United States -- History.
  • Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
  • African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
Summary
  • Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
Length
  • xxvii, 498 pages : index, chapter notes
An excellent economic & political overview.
I'm not going to read these as I already have my reading lists. Can you please provide a cliff notes of these books?
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