Bread and circuses are often enough to distract the masses from the more serious shortcomings of government. And so it is that the pandering to Black Lives Matter and politically correct college student demonstrators serve to help them forget that they are poorly educated, poorly served and just plain poor.
In the city of New Orleans, with so many other more important issues, the city council has voted to remove statues of Confederate civil war heroes in order to placate loud mouthed whiners who are “offended” by the statues, rather than deal with the real problems the city faces.
The monuments are of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, and the Battle of Liberty Place. They mark historical figures and events that cannot be erased. The city council voted 6 – 1 for their removal, and declared them public nuisances.
It is estimated that removal will cost $170,000, and all of the arguments made by groups hoping to keep the monuments in place were judged by the city council to be “frivolous,” “entirely without merit,” or “made no sense.” One wonders about other moments in history that various segments of society will find offensive and move to have them erased.
Who is paying for monument removal, page 2:
Why are we paying, tax dollars, to have our historg erased? Has the whole country gone insane! We cannot erase it, nor should we want to. This has to stop! Where are the defenders of our country?
If they had a lick of sense and studied the real history, they would see these men had been respected by black and white in their time.
AMERICA – you are going through a CULTURAL CLEANSING. They are trying to remove all of the important landmarks of our nation in order to train the next generation to have NO ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT let them do this to our children and young people! That makes it free for them to brain wash our children and their future with their anti-American propaganda.
It’s bewildering! We know the worst is yet to come…
what is wrong with people.why are defaceing our country and removeing history.are they going to take not anything that is Japane,Germen or any other item that offend some idiot.
It is time to get rid of the mayor and city council and put Americans in those positions – this is despicable
That kind of cynical logic is very unhealthy. You’re letting your brain tell you that because one person, in one place is updating and remodeling, probably to increase property value, that not only do you think it somehow affects your life in any sort of way but that suddenly its going to start happening everywhere. If you let your mind get caught in that constant negative feedback loop you’ll get white hairs and health problem before your time.
That is so wrong trying to delete our The Southerner History .. That is what Isis is doing in other countries but I never thought I’d see President cower like he is a scared baby . He has made America look weak !! It just makes me sick !!!
We must end this PC horse manure. Start removing PC monuments.
Well said Rjichard Williams!