Pelosi demands Confederate statues removed from Hall

[billisonboard]

Aug 18, 2017 8:22:43 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

... that I think was contrived by ...

You think some interesting things. Who do you think contrived and what do you think the reasoning was behind Operation Wide Receiver?

[billisonboard]

Aug 18, 2017 8:25:19 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Aug 18, 2017 8:18:43 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

I disagree that we lost that war. The American people, a small group to start but more and more as time went on, fought and some died to bring our soldiers home. We, the American people, won that war. It is true that a mistake was made in blaming rank and file service men and women. I think we have grown from that experience.

Bullshit, We tucked our tails between our legs and wimped a way!

Only the TPTB did that.

[ken a.k.a OMK]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP)- A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early Friday morning.



The statue of Roger B. Taney was lifted away by a crane at about 2 a.m. It was lowered into a truck and driven away to storage. The bronze statue was erected in 1872, just outside the original front door of the State House.

[justme]

Aug 17, 2017 15:50:17 GMT -5 Miss Tequila said:

What cracks me up is until the past week I never heard anyone, on tv or on these boards, mutter a word about any confederate statues. Now it is an uproar. Smells like flavor of the week to me

It's been simmering for a while. Several months back New Orleans removed all their statutes in the middle of several nights to try and avoid protesters. I think they did it fast enough only the last one or two had a few protesters. I believe NO was prompted by other cities removing theirs but it's been a while since I read that article. My city removed its monument several months ago as well, but had actually voted to remove it several months before that.

So it's not a new new movement, cities have been doing it as quietly as they can for a while now. It seems UVA was just the unfortunate one who somehow got the attention of the alt-right and didn't move quickly enough so they had time to assemble the horror that happened which then catapulted it to national news.