“Lee Circle” will lose its namesake. Of course, it will most likely lose its name too.
Lee Circle will lose the statue of its namesake after the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 Thursday (Dec. 17) to remove four monuments related to the Confederacy from their prominent perches around the city.
Besides Gen. Robert E. Lee, statues of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance of City Park and Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Mid-City and the obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place at the foot of Iberville Street will all come down.
Once again, an attempt to erase history, which will nevertheless persist in the memories of Louisiana residents. No matter what they do, the facts will remain, for good or bad. To me, truth rules over all. Of course, “justice” is the reason:
“The time surely comes when (justice) must and will be heard,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the council as he called for the statues to be put in a museum or a Civil War park. “Members of the council, that day is today. The Confederacy, you see, was on the wrong side of history and humanity.”
As a northerner, I am not in a position to judge the beliefs of southerners, but I do understand the importance of states’ rights, while I believe that slavery was a practice that needed to end. Removing statues, and erasing events from history books doesn’t change what happened, or change attitudes.
Councilwoman Stacy Head voted against the removal, saying she thought it would do nothing to break down the social and economic barriers New Orleanians struggle with.
“I asked for a compromise multiple times,” she said. “But that compromise was not given any chance.”
She put it forth again Thursday, proposing an amendment to keep the Lee and Beauregard statues while adding explanatory plaques to them. But the motion failed to get a second ….
“There is no need to be afraid of anything. I have no question in my mind that the people of New Orleans are up to the task of appropriately commemorating who we are as a people and where we come from.” Landrieu said, calling the monuments a “perversion of history.”
Councilwoman Susan Guidry said the statues would be stored until a place could be found to display them in proper context.
And Lee Circle may soon be called something else. The ordinance the council approved called it by its original name: Tivoli Circle.
Landrieu justified the move, citing a city ordinance that permits the removal monuments that are judged a “public nuisance”.
General Beauregard
Battle of Liberty Monument
Jefferson Davis
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Ignorance and chicken-shit-caving-in is what it is – and this is only the beginning. Mitch Landrieu is a “perversion” and stupid, besides. Monuments to military generals and politicians are not only in the south, ya know – wait until the BLM goes after the national parks and cemetaries.
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And you know that they will do just that. Didn’t they have someone’s grave moved?
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They were trying in Memphis – don’t know if it happened or not.
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They already defaced a cemetery up here earlier this year.
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I’ve got a Benjamin says this won’t solve the problem they’ve got. Stupid is hard to fix. I’m gonna try to find some info tonight about some of those wonderful dictators who erased their history. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture.
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One of the council members wasn’t totally happy, because the white mayor suggested it, rather than one of the black council members.
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🙄
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The white mayor is a pandering pussy.
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And, of course, that isn’t enough.
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Is the kinda-opposing council member black?
Maybe they agree with Weed’s former comment, and are resentful that a white person floated the idea first, and not one of “my people”.
Democrat politicians and other public figures haven’t figured out yet that it is THEY that best “stay in their place”. It only took two generations, but we’re there, folks.
White Dems, for the most part, are to be cowering at all times to those they work for, whose culture they all did their best to create, fund, and enable. And who still don’t see white Dems as “my people”, and will make them bow and snivel and scrape, no matter how Dem, no matter how Left, for getting, ah, uppity. Don’t even “microagress”.
I wouldn’t want to be a white male Democrat right about now.
Mary Shelley is rolling over in her grave and laughing.
[Dems, you done fuxed up. Your Frankenstein doesn’t see the difference between you and your white political enemies. You are also targets.
I hope season 7 of Walking Dead tells the story. You did this, Dems.]
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Here’s a very recent example of rewriting history. 👿
http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk/rewritehistory.htm
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….” Then it was revealed that a new European Union-sponsored history makes no mention of the apparently minor events of both world wars, or of Winston Churchill and Britain’s heroic, lone resistance to Fascism in 1940. Brief mention is made of Hitler, none at all of the Nazis….”
Dayum. Imagine there’s no Nazis…… Easy if you try…….(insert song notes here if you have a MacApple….. 😀 )
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England is lucky that Obama sent Churchill’s bust back rather than taking some C2 to it.
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I’m sure we can all find many more examples of this. Half the young kids today don’t even know what July 4th is all about. I’ve heard that with my own eyes.
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The upshot? Maybe if we erase slavery from our history entirely, the Black Grievance Industry will forget it ever happened and GET THE HELL ON WITH LIFE LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE.
That would be SOOOO nice.
“What slavery? I can’t find any references to it anywhere! I’m starting to doubt it ever happened!”
–Me, in twenty years when they’ve erased every reference to it from every place, book, mural and painting.
Good for them. The idiots. (Grr..)
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Maybe then people will treat it like the holocaust – it was just a hoax made up by haters of southern white boys.
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Oh, yeah, that though occurred to me as I was typing. American Slavery denialists.
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Then they’ll naturally have to erase Booker T. Washington from history. “Up From Slavery”? Slavery to whom? Some guy with no name? Under what flag? What did the flag look like? I don’t know. I can’t find it anywhere.
Then, of course, we can erase Harriet Tubman from history. She was helping slaves escape. Again, I will ask, “from where? From whom? I don’t see it anywhere. You erased all the dependencies and prerequisites for her existence, too!”
And I will laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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I’m laughing now, even. They want to erase from public consciousness all the people and things that give them their reason for grievance in the first place.
Killing the goose that laid their golden egg.
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The only history most people are aware of is what is left from the last 100 years of erasing. Many history books published in the last 80 years already omit people places and/or events, and contain outright lies.
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Oh, I know. l’m kidless, but I make it a point to ask teacher friends of mine, every couple of years, to loan me a couple of their high-school World History books.
It is astonishing and shameful.
They are shameful by lacking much truth, and they are shameful and downright evil by adding even more absolute lying bullshit.
Description: Most people under 40 today who attended public schools and colleges, and who watch a lot of television.
The people in that description actually have NEGATIVE knowledge. Say I don’t know about some topic or hobby or trade. You teach me all lies about the topic, for my entire life. My knowledge is therefore below zero, unless I learned truths from sources other than your lies. It is astonishing to witness and see in all the people around me who fit that description. Which is most of them.
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I still have my college American history textbook from 1965. I’m keeping it.
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I wish I could read it.
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You can still do a lot of your own research. It still stuns me that many blacks in America refuse to believe that it was the court case brought forth by a black slave holder in Virginia that changed their status from indentured servant eligible for manumission to that of permanent and generational servitude.
And the America version of the First Civil War (ie: The Revolutionary War) still makes me shake my head.
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Yep, we shopped online and in used book stores for a lot of our curriculum for homeschooling. The English curriculum we used was created in 1963 as an experimental curriculum for advanced learners studying at DoD/State Dept run schools overseas. Includes the study of linguistics, bible passages and history incorporated into readings. Even I learned something. I had no idea what “Menippean Satire” was until I started teaching this syllabus. We found out about it from a family friend who gave us her old notes and textbooks when she was enrolled in Europe in the 1960’s. An outstanding and rigorous course clearly designed for the college bound student. The only other copies are microfiche copies on file with ERIC.
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Note that Ronaldus said, “…our liberal Friends…”
Father forgive them. They know not what they do.
And I’m not talking about the people who are actively deceiving our Friends.
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Nyet, try this Ren & Stimpy amusee’ busche “Stimpy and the button”…
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Eventually, when they take this thing to its absurd conclusion, when they have exhausted all available things to erase from history and the public’s knowledge, there will be only one thing left to erase:
The Democratic Party.
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New Orleans City Council compatriots ?
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History erasure is what ISIS does. Now, it is what America’s Left does.
Look at it this way – they just set the rules for what is now acceptable. Just wait until they get a load of what happens when that pendulum swings (and it will). Remember, Bill Clinton re-wrote the rules of engagement in Serbia, he still lost that war in the end and the legacy of that decision still haunts us.
There will be payback, as there inevitably will be. My vision is that I would like to repurpose some cultural artifacts…. maybe employ progs in repurposed FEMA funkamps to use 8# sledges to convert large stone statues into aggregate for infrastructure projects.
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The more pre-1900 magazines and newspapers I read, the more apparent the intentional suppression of any interest in historical knowledge has lead to the fabrication and acceptance of complete and utter garbage presented today. As each generation passes away that could call BS on something they lived through, the more twisted and perverse what we are told of history has become.
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Nyet,
I am still working on this wordpress thingy. I was a history major, mostly as I could not take the pain to finish up a geology degree.
The demolition of history is not just text, but actual. ISIS destroys Petra, the world cares not. The regime memory holes something, no one seems to care.
It brings to mind:
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