re: Landrieu officially calls for removal of statue at Lee Circle

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Give Scruffy a call when they start ramping up gun control, criminalize free speech, invading our privacy even more, fricking up the economy even more, fricking up the medical profession, fricking around with the military even more, police abusing at increasing rates, etc., etc., fricking etc.

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:ring: :ring:

....pick up the fricking phone

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do we need a constant reminder of how the south got its arse kicked?

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wouldn't that be a good thing? "Don't try it again. Look what happened last time."

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I can't be proud of my heritage?

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Can I be proud of mine? Where are the Nat Turner Statues?

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....pick up the fricking phone

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That was kinda the point of the post. All of that is going on and all we are talking about is this and other SJW crap.

LOL.. would you like me to name you all of the African American heritage statues there are?????????

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by tigersownall
I can't be proud of my heritage?

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Sure, but does all of this actually mean that much to you outside of the "hmmm...that's kinda interesting" aspect?

For example, Scruffy is related to the Beauchamps that Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London is named after.

Outside of "that's kinda cool", it means nothing.

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I can't be proud of my heritage?

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Sure you can. Why don't you fly the stars and bars on your front lawn if you're so proud of it.

I wonder if Treme gets renamed. Ole Claude was a slave owner.

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Did anyone read what Eisenhower said about lee?

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General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.

From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

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