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:
Remove NO historical monuments!
Arrest those people
It is hostory and a great part of America ! Obama and his merry fools trying to erase history ! News Flash , you can remove the monuments but you cannot remove it from our hearts and minds ! Next they will ban the from all history books ! They are truly IN American P’s OS !
You erase the past you are doomed to forget it then you will repeat it. Some parts of history are bad but it’s our job to pass it on to the next generation so they do not make the same mistakes.
What a disgrace!
This is absolutely wrong in every sense of the word wrong..
In the beginning it was a bit humorous repeating the phrase “how’s that change working out for ya.” Well, it isn’t funny any more. The only thing left that still resembles the America I remember is the money in my wallet and if the value of money dictated it’s physical size as in the old days, a dollar would be the size of a postage stamp. This is what happens when liberals are in charge for too long.
remove the black monuments also this is going to keep on and another civil war is going to brake out you can only push people so far
Just saying, if you are going to miss it so much you gonna boo hoo on Facebook might as well get something like a book to memorialize all that you hold dear IN YOUR OWN HOME. It doesn’t even have to be a book with words. Just a shrine to the good ol’ days down yonder.
History will repeat itself
You will pay a price for this