Tiberius Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 Quote RICHMOND — Workers have removed Virginia’s biggest statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its towering stone base, ending its 131-year reign as the embodiment of this city’s mythology as the former capital of the Confederacy. As they began to move the statue off its pedestal, workers on the cherry picker began waving their arms, a crowd of hundreds cheered and a worker held up five fingers then four then three two one and the crane lifted the statue from its base. The crowd roared and began singing, “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!” Good bye!!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/robert-e-lee-statue-removal/2021/09/08/1d9564ee-103d-11ec-9cb6-bf9351a25799_story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 47 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Good bye!!! THEN THEY CAME FOR JEFFERSON https://publicsquaremag.org/politics-law/then-they-came-for-jefferson/ Protesters tore down a George Washington statue https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/portland-george-washington-statue-toppled-trnd/index.html Lincoln Statue Removed in Boston https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/29/lincoln-statue-removed-boston-dc/ Thomas Jefferson statue will be moved following calls to remove racist symbols from public spaces https://decaturish.com/2020/06/demonstration-organizer-says-decaturs-thomas-jefferson-statue-will-be-removed/ Protesters pull down Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Portland high school https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/protesters-take-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portlands-jefferson-high-school.html TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University removed their Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin statues outside the law building https://www.wibw.com/2020/08/26/founding-fathers-statues-removed-at-washburn/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 28 minutes ago, B-Man said: THEN THEY CAME FOR JEFFERSON https://publicsquaremag.org/politics-law/then-they-came-for-jefferson/ Protesters tore down a George Washington statue https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/portland-george-washington-statue-toppled-trnd/index.html Lincoln Statue Removed in Boston https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/12/29/lincoln-statue-removed-boston-dc/ Thomas Jefferson statue will be moved following calls to remove racist symbols from public spaces https://decaturish.com/2020/06/demonstration-organizer-says-decaturs-thomas-jefferson-statue-will-be-removed/ Protesters pull down Thomas Jefferson statue in front of Portland high school https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/06/protesters-take-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portlands-jefferson-high-school.html TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Washburn University removed their Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin statues outside the law building https://www.wibw.com/2020/08/26/founding-fathers-statues-removed-at-washburn/ Poor Lee, no one really complaining that fool's statue is coming down. That Lincoln one isn't so great anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corta765 Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 12/18/2015 at 1:33 PM, Deranged Rhino said: All the more reason to learn from history rather than destroying it. Removing statues is not erasing history. Literally not mentioning it in history books, removing any museum or historical acknowledgement to it would be. I don't think anyone disagrees that it would be a complete mistake to pretend the civil war never existed, but their are elements of it that have no belonging in a regular public area unless in a museum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 41 minutes ago, corta765 said: Removing statues is not erasing history. Literally not mentioning it in history books, removing any museum or historical acknowledgement to it would be. I don't think anyone disagrees that it would be a complete mistake to pretend the civil war never existed, but their are elements of it that have no belonging in a regular public area unless in a museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Governor Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 We’re just making room for the new ones after the war. We’ll have one for Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz. Of course the fallen leader Donald will have one. The fallen heros of our time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 45 minutes ago, B-Man said: So the Hitler statues should have stayed up in Germany? Try thinking sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Tiberius said: So the Hitler statues should have stayed up in Germany? Try thinking sometime. No one said anything comparable to that. Removing statues/erasing history. Try thinking , for the FIRST time. Try this one.............and then misrepresent why I posted it......................You know, the usual. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnyguy Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 3 minutes ago, B-Man said: No one said anything comparable to that. Removing statues/erasing history. Try thinking , for the FIRST time. Try this one.............and then misrepresent why I posted it......................You know, the usual. Why those racist bastards. There you have it, proof the the Taliban should be defunded now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 15 hours ago, B-Man said: No one said anything comparable to that. Removing statues/erasing history. Try thinking , for the FIRST time. Try this one.............and then misrepresent why I posted it......................You know, the usual. So, again, you wanted Saddam's statues to remain up? How stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 17 hours ago, B-Man said: No one said anything comparable to that. Removing statues/erasing history. Try thinking , for the FIRST time. Try this one.............and then misrepresent why I posted it......................You know, the usual. Nope, if removing statues is removing "history" then you are also against Saddam's statue coming down, and Hitlers and Stalins. So stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Tiberius said: So stupid! 2 hours ago, Tiberius said: So stupid You said it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 The "Hero" Robert E Lee. This is how he treated his enslaved people that he was suppose to free Quote “... We remained in prison fifteen days, when we were sent back to Arlington; we were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to ‘lay it on well,’ an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/10/robert-e-lee-slavery/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irv Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 (edited) Demented Biden should be impeached for letting the statues be taken down. Lee was one of the greatest statesman in US history. Biden's too demented to know that. Harris is too stupid. What a mess. Edited September 10, 2021 by Irv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 22 minutes ago, Irv said: Demented Biden should be impeached for letting the statues be taken down. Lee was one of the greatest statesman in US history. Biden's too demented to know that. Harris is too stupid. What a mess. Lee was what? He wasn't a statesmen at all. Not sure where you are getting that. He was a traitor, the leader of a rebellion to destroy the nation and keep slavery legal. He was pretty much a POS slaveholder 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irv Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 9 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Lee was what? He wasn't a statesmen at all. Not sure where you are getting that. He was a traitor, the leader of a rebellion to destroy the nation and keep slavery legal. He was pretty much a POS slaveholder One of the greatest leaders in history. Nearly defeated the larger and better equipped Union Army. They should be putting more statues of him up, not taking them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted September 10, 2021 Author Share Posted September 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, Irv said: One of the greatest leaders in history. Nearly defeated the larger and better equipped Union Army. They should be putting more statues of him up, not taking them down. Ya, nice move that Pickett's Charge there. Brilliant! Fought a rebellion for slavery. Do you like him because he was so racist he helped kill thousands of American soldiers, helped drag more into the hell of slavery and worked to undermine the freeing of others. Great guy, if you are a total racist 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backintheday544 Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Tiberius said: Ya, nice move that Pickett's Charge there. Brilliant! Fought a rebellion for slavery. Do you like him because he was so racist he helped kill thousands of American soldiers, helped drag more into the hell of slavery and worked to undermine the freeing of others. Great guy, if you are a total racist Don’t fight with them they like losers. They like Trump who lost at business so many times his books end at chapter 7 and could t beat sleepy Joe. They like losers so much they want statutes of the losers. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SectionC3 Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 2 hours ago, Tiberius said: Ya, nice move that Pickett's Charge there. Brilliant! Fought a rebellion for slavery. Do you like him because he was so racist he helped kill thousands of American soldiers, helped drag more into the hell of slavery and worked to undermine the freeing of others. Great guy, if you are a total racist He’s an aristocrat who took advantage of poor, dumb white guys. No surprise that he’s beloved by some here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted September 10, 2021 Share Posted September 10, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, Irv said: Demented Biden should be impeached for letting the statues be taken down. Lee was one of the greatest statesman in US history. Biden's too demented to know that. Harris is too stupid. What a mess. I thought you disliked Democrats?? Edited September 10, 2021 by Over 29 years of fanhood 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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