North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement Tuesday calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments.
“I don’t pretend to know what it’s like for a person of color to pass by one of these monuments and consider that those memorialized in stone and metal did not value my freedom or humanity,” he said. “Unlike an African-American father, I’ll never have to explain to my daughters why there exists an exalted monument for those who wished to keep her and her ancestors in chains.”
Cooper said the state Legislature should repeal a 2015 law that prevents the removal or relocation of monuments so local governments and the state will have the authority to decide.
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Do you think that Democrats want to tear down Confederate statues because they don’t want their useful idiots to know which party stood for slavery?
David DeGerolamo
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“Black people who were never slaves are fighting white people who were never Nazis over a confederate statue erected by Democrats because Democrats can’t stand their own history anymore.. yet somehow it’s Trump’s fault.” — Jeff Laffite Jones
It’s all becoming much clearer…
I continue to hear and see testimony/suggestion that the US Civil War was started and fought over “Slavery”. As I recall it was about “States Rights” and “Economic” issues that were being imposed by the North East (that is all there was in those days that was of any significance) over the Southern, more Agricultural, states. President Lincoln (whom I like and respect) chose to focus on the issue of Slavery to bring the population of the Northern states together as a fighting force (likely, knowing that using support of the, then, Military/Industrial Complex would not do that job for the economic reasons that were the real issue) against the South and the “Games Began”. Will we always seem to “cave” to the lack of intellectual information and the influence of “any” Propaganda system pushed our way ultimately orchestrating our own “Loss of Freedom” and, ultimate, Demise? If we do not educate ourselves and very carefully determine where and how to fight the true Enemy, we will suffer more than necessary. We MUST remember: 1) Homo sapiens is NOT nice, 2) Homo sapiens is an Opportunist. That includes me and all I know.
The governor is a “zounderkite” who knows nothing of history. Who is he to define history? federal law, 18 USC 1369, destruction of veterans’ memorials is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
Agree with LGA! Also it was the Democrats who fought to keep slavery and fought against desegregation during my lifetime! It was Republicans who fought to end slavery and to end segregation.
They are tearing them down because cultural genocide always precedes the actual genocide. We need to be broken morally, spiritually, and destruction of the familiar roots.