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:
I guess if you have enough money and friends you can erase history.
OH MY – IF THE MONUMENTS ARE NOT THERE THEN THE LEFT CAN CHANGE HISTORY FOR SURE
Why aren’t the people of that city defending it? I mean Physically stopping this? ISIS destroys ancient buildings and structures because they represent something contrary to their religion and we call it an atrocity. Aren’t these people doing the same thing?
Shame on the government!! You can take it away but you can’t hide what happened!! People need to quit being so scared and UN intelligent!!
S**t liberals do..
Maybe now the blacks can throw down the white crutch and get civilized. Ha. Doubt it.
It is/was historyu. It should stay as a reminder of the history
Following they way of the Taliban.
Hitler Alain took the monuments of the people’s
Let’s remove history so that one day we can repeat it,why?