NopeCome to think of it, Confederate monuments were either erected by paid laborers or charitable craftsmen. Can they stay up now?
NopeCome to think of it, Confederate monuments were either erected by paid laborers or charitable craftsmen. Can they stay up now?
if they owned other human beings as property, they should not be memorialized
Want to defund drug cartels?Owning human beings was an accepted practice until the end of the civil war. Many of the greatest leaders of that bygone era owned human beings. My friend, we can not change history. Let bygones be bygones. Today, the only place where we can effect change, we need a lot less chest beating, and a lot more common sense.
It has been almost 160 years since the practice of owning slaves has ended. Monuments of past leaders mean little or nothing to the progress of our nation. Removing them will not solve our problems.
If you really want to solve the problems of the nations poor, get off your back side and help run the drug dealers and gangs out of them. Don't glorify rioting, de-fund police departments, or dependency on the government. The demonstrators would have accomplished more the first by forming a circle around the businesses of the community and tossing out the imported agitators, than they have in the two weeks since. If you think you don't need the police, while protecting their businesses, circle the police department. Show them that there is no need for them. Violet riots don't show anything, but the need for more police.
Moving monuments is nothing more that a feel good exercise. Something to get peoples' mind off the real issue. Have fun moving them. When they are all gone, not a single thing will have changed.
Want to defund drug cartels?
Legalize drugs
Millions of Africans were killed during the slave trade
Agree and Israel was in Egypt 400 yrs and slavery still exists today .. But not in the USA unless you count pimps and drug pushers ..Owning human beings was an accepted practice until the end of the civil war. Many of the greatest leaders of that bygone era owned human beings. My friend, we can not change history. Let bygones be bygones. Today, the only place where we can effect change, we need a lot less chest beating, and a lot more common sense.
It has been almost 160 years since the practice of owning slaves has ended. Monuments of past leaders mean little or nothing to the progress of our nation. Removing them will not solve our problems.
If you really want to solve the problems of the nations poor, get off your back side and help run the drug dealers and gangs out of them. Don't glorify rioting, de-fund police departments, or dependency on the government. The demonstrators would have accomplished more the first by forming a circle around the businesses of the community and tossing out the imported agitators, than they have in the two weeks since. If you think you don't need the police, while protecting their businesses, circle the police department. Show them that there is no need for them. Violet riots don't show anything, but the need for more police.
Moving monuments is nothing more that a feel good exercise. Something to get peoples' mind off the real issue. Have fun moving them. When they are all gone, not a single thing will have changed.
it cost more taxpayer money than its worth to lock people up or non-violent drug crimesThat is just stupid.
Drugs are one of the biggest problems in the black communities.
But I suppose it drugs were legal, you would not have to buy from the local street dealer.
My wife has an old uncle who can farm , fish, slaughter and raise cows, pigs and chickens and knows how to get by without computers or cable .. And can fix all his equipment himself but he never learned to read or write .. I doubt many today could plant their own tree or have a place to plant it, much less get by without stores for a month or more ..am sure the birds will find they dont have to use them for targets now and can go back to living in trees.
why people build statues and useless monuments I dont know when they could plant trees.
Bwahahahait cost more taxpayer money than its worth to lock people up or non-violent drug crimes
Want to defund drug cartels?
Legalize drugs
It's one of those statues represents. Which is racism and white supremacyI think it's an ingenious idea that seems to have worked because people are prone to not think and are easily led like sheep. A man killed another man and we all saw it on tv and were outraged. Then different groups who were waiting for the opportune time to loot and riot stepped forward. The best way then to shift the focus away from who committed this is to begin to point to people and things that took place one hundred and fifty-five years ago.
It's one of those statues represents. Which is racism and white supremacy
we're not talking about one case. We're talking about an entire system of systemic racismChauvin(French), Kueng(Vietnamese),Thao(Vietnamese) and Lane(English) ,,,="white supremacy"?
we're not talking about one case. We're talking about an entire system of systemic racism
It's one of those statues represents. Which is racism and white supremacy
A lot of those monuments were put up during the Jim Crow eraBrawndo's got what plants crave!