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:
Don’t bust them up because they are going back up. The south is going to rise again.
Their out of their minds!
My friend I lived in South Dakota, my mother was Sioux. The Buffalo Soldiers role as handed down from my family: Buffalo Soldiers (Named by The Cheyenne Nation for their coarse hair resembling the mane of the Buffalo)were hated as being mercenaries for the Union Army and just as guilty as the White Union Soldier for the rape, murder and pillaging killing children including babies to commit genocide on our people. Suggest you read “Cheyenne Autumn and Trail of Tears. My father was Cherokee in Southern Missouri. His School was burned down by whites. My father’s family also fought for the South in the Civil War because of where they lived. My Great Grandmother used to tell me of those times. Family members are interred in cemeteries where there are both Union and Confederate Flag markers. We had no slaves. Grandma told me of hearing about people in another County having slaves and how awful that was. Please don’t call my mother and father and Grandparents liars. They were there. We also have extended Jewish Family members, perhaps you too don’t believe the holocaust occurred. Again you weren’t there. We are so sick of hearing about just black suffering. You don’t have a lock on discrimination or poverty. Ask the Chinese and other Oriental’s, the Irish and Italians and on and on and Gay people How about we just leave it at that, don’t repeat the bad history, stop talking about racism except with those “INDIVIDUALS” who commit racism and not blame a whole ethnic group for the ignorance of some. How about you and me focusing on positive things about one another and our differences in an atmosphere where our children can live in peace and love one another. There, I’ve taken the first step. God bless you and your family. And believe me if I ever saw anyone trying to harm you, your family or your right to live your life I would be your brother in arms. Our kids deserve better. God bless you and your family.
We were just there in December…Glad I got to see them one last time!
So you are telling America that our Government not only goes back on rheir word, they can’t be bothered to uphold the Law neither. Sounds about right with that pos in office currently.
Hitler and ISIS also destroys history
get these scumbags outta our country, with kenyan pres. groups being funded by him behind this u can bet on it
Well said and I agree!!
It is illegal to remove confederate monuments. Years ago laws were passed to give confederate soldiers the same rights as all American soldiers. That would make all confederate monuments national monuments and confederate cemetery’s national cemetery’s
These people get elected to the office and don’t really do anything like Mc Connel , Harry Reed have been there 30 yrs or so retire as millionaires and still haven’t done anything , so we really do need term limits