'Symbols are powerful things': New
Orleans Council readies changes to
Confederate street names
Times-Picayune [New Orleans, LA],
by
Jeff Adelson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/13/2020 1:40:35 PM
Statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard were toppled in New Orleans three years ago. But their names, along with those of a host of other Confederate officers and officials, still adorn the city's streets and parks. That could soon change amid an upwelling of outrage over racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd. Jefferson Davis Parkway, Robert E. Lee Blvd. and at least 20 other streets that honor leaders of the Confederacy are expected to be among the first considered for removal by a new City Council advisory group.(Snip) “To walk down a street named after a Confederate
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 6/13/2020 1:47:53 PM (No. 443570)
This country was founded mostly by white men who owned slaves. Maybe we should just disband and re-name the whole country.
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You may be joking #1 but in reality that is probably what they want.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fishbone 6/13/2020 2:07:36 PM (No. 443588)
OMG! Just think of all the work needed to change out Byrd's name. ;-)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/13/2020 2:27:05 PM (No. 443604)
Hiding history by destroying statues and renaming everything makes forgetting it and its lessons guaranteed. And also makes repeating the mistakes of our predecessors ever more certain. These objects and lessons should be in-your-face inescapable so that our descendants centuries from now might not have to learn tragedy anew.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 6/13/2020 3:00:07 PM (No. 443624)
New Orleans has terrible crime rates. High murder rates. Gang problems. Drug problems, Terrible schools. And the list goes on and on.
But its so nice that they think renaming a few streets and tearing down a few statues will make all of that disappear!!!
You can never accuse a lie-beral of having more than 8 working brain cells. And most of them are about 6-7 working brain cells short of that!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
koax 6/13/2020 3:03:46 PM (No. 443625)
It took 160 years for the Democrat Party to realize their Confederate heritage was wrong.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 6/13/2020 3:07:18 PM (No. 443627)
This had absolutely no substance. None. If anything, it angers the people the left thinks a " guilty".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
billsv 6/13/2020 3:07:59 PM (No. 443629)
Don't forget to dig up the graves at Arlington National Cemetery that is on land owned by Robert E Lee.
These people are as dumb as a rock. You cannot change history. New Orleans is one of the cities in the US with the most homicides in the US. Now there is something for this worthless council to deal with.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/13/2020 3:21:34 PM (No. 443633)
Democrats trying to rewrite history and erasing their Confederate Army from the public eye doesn’t make them not guilty of washing the Civil War so they could keep slavery as a legal business in this country.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TJ54 6/13/2020 3:32:11 PM (No. 443642)
It will still be a Dem sh-thole
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Southron 6/13/2020 3:35:18 PM (No. 443643)
Living conditions in New Orleans have sunk to an all-time - its streets and neighborhoods are falling apart and its not safe to go out after dark. But its leaders are not capable of addressing its real problems.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
curious1 6/13/2020 3:42:33 PM (No. 443650)
Keep in mind, this is war to destroy the constitution and our Republic, by communists. There is nothing keeping these commies here if it's so terrible. Yet they prefer to stay and whine, while working their subversion behind the scenes. They need an ultimatum. Leave or get planted. Because if you just tell them to shutup and they do, they'll still work to subvert this nation.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/13/2020 3:53:49 PM (No. 443663)
I live about 50 miles from the Jefferson Davis Monument. Our governor, Sheriff Andy has gotten the statue of Jefferson Davis out of the Kentucky capital building in Frankfort. I don't think he bothered to ponder how ironic in the Civil War the leaders of the opposite sides were both born in Kentucky.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chillijilli 6/13/2020 3:58:35 PM (No. 443669)
So I'm trying to figure out what it is they want. A totally fresh start? OK. I'll go with that. Waving my magic wand, poof! OK, done. The Past doesn't exist anymore as of right this minute. It's a clean slate. We're all woke and moving forward. No more social identities or social justice warriors because there's nothing to complain about anymore. All past wrongs have been righted.
Now what? Does that solve the problems? Uh uh. I don't think so. Some kind of activist movement would spring up because of something---like there are too many people who have white skin. Or something.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/13/2020 8:15:18 PM (No. 443869)
The symbolism of a bunch of looting, burning rioters is powerful. It tells me what a useless group of donuffins we have been tolerating and giving special privileges to, with no thanks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/13/2020 11:43:20 PM (No. 443965)
Rename all of them with curse words, that way the Democraps will be at home!
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#15 What do they want ? Death, destruction, free and anything you own. South Africa.
Any chance to burn, destroy, loot and rob is exciting. No clue where money comes from. We are all going to "share the risk" if you own anything or have a j-o-b.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/14/2020 2:30:40 AM (No. 444037)
Wipe out real history to match revisionist textbook history taught in public schools. That's the ticket.
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