Richmond is taking down Confederate statues: Is this the end for other Confederate memorials?

[Franklin Pierce]

Poll: Americans Believe Confederate Statues Should Remain Standing by 12-Point Margin

A greater percentage of U.S. registered voters believe Confederate statues, which have been targeted by protesters in recent weeks, should remain standing despite activists’ demands to remove them, a Morning Consult poll released this week revealed.

The survey, taken June 6-7, showed that a greater number of Americans believe Confederate statues should remain standing, 44 percent, as opposed to the 32 percent who say they should be removed. Twenty-three percent expressed no opinion on the matter.

The vast majority of Republicans, 71 percent, believe the Confederate statues should remain standing, whereas the majority of Democrats, 53 percent, believe they should be taken down. Forty percent of independents believe they should remain standing, with 30 percent vying for their removal and 30 percent expressing no opinion.

The survey was taken among “roughly” 1,900 voters, with a margin of error of +/- two percent.

Interestingly, Pelosi has remained silent on her own father’s role in the dedication of a Confederate statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park in 1948.

As Breitbart News detailed:

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However, her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the city in 1948. At the time, the Speaker’s father said people could look to Jackson’s and Lee’s lives as inspiration and urged Americans to “emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.”

Poll: Americans Believe Confederate Statues Should Remain Standing by 12-Point Margin

 

[volsarelife1]

Ive seen and experienced it. Just because I'm successful now doesn't mean I haven't experienced things in the past or still deal with them sometime.
I don't . There are several conservatives on here that don' fit the label. Most don't. You and a few hardcore lost causers, I do categorize that way.

Would you agree there are some racist blacks out there as well.

 

[1972 Grad]

Would you agree there are some racist blacks out there as well.

KTK may not own a mirror.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Police: Rhode Island Middle School Teacher Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus

A Rhode Island middle school social studies teacher was arrested on Saturday morning in connection to the vandalism of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island.

According to a local news report, middle school social studies teacher Derrick Garforth was charged with felony desecration of a grave or monument after a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island, was vandalized on Saturday morning.

Two suspects were splattering paint on wooden barriers set up to protect the Columbus monument in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence on Saturday morning when they were spotted by police. After a brief chase, Garforth and two other individuals were arrested.

Garforth, a social studies teacher at Jenks Middle School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was placed on leave by the school district pending an investigation into his actions.

Breitbart News reported earlier this month that junior high school teacher Zachary Borenstein was arrested on felony charges of defacing a monument after he was caught vandalizing a monument at the University of Mississippi.

Police: Rhode Island Middle School Teacher Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus

 

[1972 Grad]

Police: Rhode Island Middle School Teacher Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus

A Rhode Island middle school social studies teacher was arrested on Saturday morning in connection to the vandalism of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island.

According to a local news report, middle school social studies teacher Derrick Garforth was charged with felony desecration of a grave or monument after a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence, Rhode Island, was vandalized on Saturday morning.

Two suspects were splattering paint on wooden barriers set up to protect the Columbus monument in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence on Saturday morning when they were spotted by police. After a brief chase, Garforth and two other individuals were arrested.

Garforth, a social studies teacher at Jenks Middle School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was placed on leave by the school district pending an investigation into his actions.

Breitbart News reported earlier this month that junior high school teacher Zachary Borenstein was arrested on felony charges of defacing a monument after he was caught vandalizing a monument at the University of Mississippi.

Police: Rhode Island Middle School Teacher Vandalized Statue of Christopher Columbus

Yet another fine example of Luther's great educational system.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Chinese Media Brands U.S. Statue Hysteria ‘America’s Cultural Revolution’

Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times on Thursday branded increasingly breathless efforts to destroy statues, disappear films and books, and otherwise erase unsavory history in the United States “America’s Cultural Revolution,” a reference to the massacres under Mao Zedong in the 1960s.

The Global Times concluded that the American “Cultural Revolution” is “useless” because America’s federalist, democratic political framework makes true revolution and “equality” impossible. The state-run newspaper regularly urges Americans to abandon their constitution and individual freedoms for a Chinese-style totalitarian communist system.

The column on Thursday was prompted by a frenzy of far-left demands in the United States to destroy statues of historical figures – particularly the first European to successfully navigate a voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus, and leaders of the failed “Confederate” insurgency that resulted in the American Civil War. Some extremists have also demanded making unavailable for public consumption artwork about the Confederacy, like the film Gone with the Wind, which resulted in the first Academy Award win for a black American actor in history. Several television programs depicting police work have also been canceled in response to violent rioting against police in major cities.

The destruction of “counter-revolutionary” artwork is “something similar to what we did in the 1960s-1970s,” the Global Times quoted unnamed “Chinese netizens” as saying. As the Communist Party controls all Chinese social media, only Party-approved opinions are allowed. Chinese state news outlets use these Party-approved statements as alleged evidence of Chinese popular sentiment.

Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution,” in some ways an attempt to end the famine caused by the “Great Leap Forward,” was an extreme violent movement to silence, torture, kill, and sometimes eat “counter-revolutionaries” in society launched in the 1960s. University of Hong Kong Professor Frank Dikötter, who has studied archival documents from the time, described the campaign that preceded the Cultural Revolution as “an effort to gradually close down all very basic civil liberties” in a 2016 interview with NPR.

Chinese Media Brands U.S. Statue Hysteria 'America's Cultural Revolution'

 

[0nelilreb]

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

I wonder why they don’t do that with the other one in Arlington ?

 

[Franklin Pierce]

 

[Boca Vol]

Calls to remove controversial Abraham Lincoln statue in Boston

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

Calls to remove controversial Abraham Lincoln statue in Boston

 

[Caculator]

I wonder why they don’t do that with the other one in Arlington ?

That one is under 24 hour guard. They would get their ass shot off, rightly so.

 

[evillawyer]

Could be huge for the gay tourism industry in Tennessee.

 

[Velo Vol]

Narrator: He won't.

 

[1972 Grad]

Narrator: He won't.

Who is he?

 

[golfballs]

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution was reported desecrated on Friday, as attacks on monuments continued nationwide in association with Black Lives Matter protests.

Philadelphia Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution Desecrated

Sick

 

[carlos86]

 

[GordonC]

Who is he?

I have no clue who that is either.

 

[LouderVol]

Could be huge for the gay tourism industry in Tennessee.

Dolly is a big figure in the gay community? What am I missing here?

 

[hog88]

I spent 18 months in Korea between Camp Howze, Hovey and the DMZ and can't remember seeing 1 confederate flag the whole time there.

 

[volfanjustin]

It was only a matter of time, these dems won’t be happy until every statue is gone and every American flag is gone

 

[Franklin Pierce]

That one is under 24 hour guard. They would get their ass shot off, rightly so.

If BLM or ANTIFA want something removed, they will remove it. Nobody has been stopped from removing statues or flags. Whether removing statues, flags, or looting and burning buildings; the police have clear orders to stand down.

 

[C-south]

Being offended by historical symbols and statues and wanting them removed seems like the new fad. Like wearing flat brim hats with the stickers and tags on them or wearing your pants off your a**.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Britney Spears statues should replace New Orleans’ Confederate ones, petition says


Oops she did it again.

Britney Spears is the subject of a new petition aimed at replacing New Orleans’ statues of Confederate soldiers with statues of “Louisiana hero Britney Spears,” TMZ reported Friday.

The Change.org petition dubs the 38-year-old singer, who grew up about 90 miles north of New Orleans in Kentwood, “one of the world’s most important and influential pop legends,” and an “an inspiration to millions.”

Both her talent and character have made her worthy of such an honor, the petition notes, pointing to Spears overcoming oft publicized mental health issues and “continuously working toward improving herself.”

Among the highlights the petition points to are Spears’ donations to Louisiana flood victims.

Britney Spears statues should replace New Orleans’ Confederate ones, petition says

 

[Orangeburst]

“one of the world’s most important and influential pop legends,” and an “an inspiration to millions.”

Sad.