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re: Thoughts on Mayor Landrieu's speech before the removal of the monuments?

Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:43 pm to
Posted by AggieDub14
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:43 pm to
It wasn't the capital. And the statues don't belong in the streets. Get over it.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
263293 posts
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:45 pm to
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And the statues don't belong in the streets. Get over it.


Why not?

Why don't y'all destroy the Alamo?
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:46 pm to
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It wasn't the capital.

I know.
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And the statues don't belong in the streets.

Says who? Nobody for basically 130 years said they didn't. I'm not sure what was suddenly revealed.
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Get over it.
Okay. Nothing really to get over here. Why are you so worked up over the issue, though?
Posted by ibleedprplngld
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jan 2012
4323 posts
Posted on 5/24/17 at 2:50 pm to
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It wasn't the capital.


Correct. I'll eat crow on that one. My bad

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And the statues don't belong in the streets.


Point still stands. Are we to remove all nation monuments just because the subject of them happen to own slaves? Hell let's just get rid of the Constitution all together being as it was primarily authored by James Madison.

Take George Washington off of the dollar, take Andrew Jackson off of the twenty, Thomas Jefferson off the hundred.

If you're going to remove national monuments because of slavery, it's going be a long a slippery slope.
This post was edited on 5/24/17 at 3:07 pm
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