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A statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee has been removed from a Dallas city park under police guard.
The decision to take down the six-tonne statue, which has stood in Lee Park since 1936, was made in the wake of recent violence in Charlottesville.
Dallas City Council had voted 13-1 to remove the monument on the grounds it was a symbol of injustice.
Earlier this month a court threw out a lawsuit from the Sons of Confederate Veterans to keep the statue in place.
The group had failed to prove the removal was a violation of free speech, the court said.
Spent a lot of time in Lee Park when I was younger, they used to give free concerts and the area is beautiful. Sad to see the Statue go, it is a work of art and should be retained someplace people can view it.
Going to cost approximately $400,000 to remove it and redo the area, me thinks the "outraged" should foot the Bill.
Spent a lot of time in Lee Park when I was younger, they used to give free concerts and the area is beautiful. Sad to see the Statue go, it is a work of art and should be retained someplace people can view it.
Going to cost approximately $400,000 to remove it and redo the area, me thinks the "outraged" should foot the Bill.
would blacks have to pay to, with them being equal under the law. what about illegal immigrants, would they have to pay for reparation out of their pockets?
Are you also really upset when you hear about the US flag being flown or do you celebrate the massacres of the native Americans?
Symbols of the United States are already under attack. Harmless statues, and flags again. Washington, and Jefferson because they owned slaves, Columbus because he exploited the natives, The Star Spangled Banner, The Pledge of Allegiance, etc. These are already being taken down, and the rest questioned. The American flag is not allowed in certain schools because it may OFFEND illegal aliens.
It will be a cold day in HELL when I let a statue, flag, song, or symbol harm me. The fact is they can't. When we ignore history, we are doomed to repeat it, even Jim Crow. Sad, and pathetic.
I feel certain that the removal of all Civil War monuments will resolve all our race relation issues. All we need do is look at our northern big cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, NYC, etc., to see how well all th races are getting along.
BTW, as Jefferson, Washington, etc., were slave owners we should also remove monuments in their honor and certainly get these nasty no-goods off our money. After that we can start working in on churches and other places of worship.
Symbols of the United States are already under attack. Harmless statues, and flags again. Washington, and Jefferson because they owned slaves, Columbus because he exploited the natives, The Star Spangled Banner, The Pledge of Allegiance, etc. These are already being taken down, and the rest questioned. The American flag is not allowed in certain schools because it may OFFEND illegal aliens.
It will be a cold day in HELL when I let a statue, flag, song, or symbol harm me. The fact is they can't. When we ignore history, we are doomed to repeat it, even Jim Crow. Sad, and pathetic.
Those things can't harm you because your IQ is bigger than your waist size. On the other hand, the perpetually offended losers that do think that they're harmed somehow will always find something to cry about. The inevitable backlash should be enormous when the "Posterity" mentioned in the Preamble to the Constitution have finally had enough!
You mean the same restaurants where black people sat in to enjoy their lunch, and the owners had them arrested? Those same restaurants? Yes, look at how white restaurant owners allowed their black customers to be treated...
They weren't allowed by law to sit there or the owners didn't want them there. They were not customers. They were however human beings who should not have been treated that way. Just as all the white restaurant owners shouldn't be treated as racists either.
They weren't allowed by law to sit there or the owners didn't want them there. They were not customers. They were however human beings who should not have been treated that way. Just as all the white restaurant owners shouldn't be treated as racists either.
Are you getting it yet?
It's always been odd that some people want to go where they know nobody, and share no values with anybody there! Why is that, except to be disruptive? I know I can't imagine finding a place where there's nothing of interests to me, and I decide that's where I'm going!
What I can't figure out about this thread is how it got deflected from the subject of removal by the board of supervisors of Dallas of the Gen. Lee statue to Reparations for black people.
Who exactly, in a position of power, is calling for the white man to pay reparations to the black man for slavery? Sounds like a fringe element or a one-off utube video that someone dug up.
The Only people calling for reparations, are the defenders of the southern rebel doctrine, and only in the context of some mythical slippery slope they invented to deflect from the real issue.
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