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 $170,000, and all of the arguments made by groups hoping to keep the monuments in place were judged by the city council to be “frivolous,” “entirely without merit,” or “made no sense.” One wonders about other moments in history that various segments of society will find offensive and move to have them erased.
Who is paying for monument removal, page 2:
Now start taking down anything pertaining to MLK. If you want to not offend you have to pander to everyone
We as citizens of the United States should sue whomever is responsible!
You$#%&!@*politicians should be ashamed of yourselves. Remove the white and install the black. Augusta GA is going to spend thousands yo upgrade the James Brown statue downtown. He was a great american NOt. Black Jailbird Trying to figure out how many kids he has bny women. But a HERO
the actions of every communist and facist leader there ever was. wake up folks you are now under communist control
It’s to bad people never learned American history. Most of all they don’t realize we learn from our history so you can plan on us repeating our failures
How ridiculous. It’s history and should stay put.
The past is what it was. Don’t run from it just because you may not like it. Learn from it if you don’t want to repeat it. The cowardly donor who doesn’t want his/her identity revealed and those people pushing this are guilty of perverting our history as a nation.They can’t be allowed to do this.
B******t
What a shame
Sick!!!!!!