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 used to not really care much about race.Blacks have gotten just too tribal.
Sad day for history cannot erase history by moving objects
like i said if you are going to wipe out the civil war then there was no slavery so we are all even right not
New ones can be erected.
What a bunch of b******t!! These asswipes will never be happy…
People u can’t erase history there are more important things to worry about like illegals, refugees ,getting taken care of at expense of tax payers ,terrorism,rapes an murders by same people ,actions of our gov. Robbery an murder an rape by gang’s jobs being taken by other people coming into our country raising your children an feeding your family its foolish to worry about things that are history and no matter what you can’t change it use your energy for things more important to your future you are the ones keeping racism ,an terrorism by your actions
This will not change history
Statues are not removed because of their link to slavery. They are removed because of their link to States rights.
Disgusting. Sounds like the Taliban are here.
Don’t forget to eliminate any and all statues of MLK, because it offends me.