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re: Robert E. Lee monument coming down NOW
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:00 pm to OweO
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:00 pm to OweO
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I am not saying I support one side or the other, but this is the dumbest argument.
Anyone, on either side of this, that is arguing over the quality of the men depicted by the statues is being made to miss the point...which is maybe %5 of the entire city of New Orleans could have named them or told you anything substantial about them.
That's why there was never any controversy before with people wringing their hands about how horrible they were...and it's why there was never any saluting to them either.
For most people, they have essentially been simple artwork, and given the length of time they have stood there have made them historical in themselves as landmarks in NOLA. They should have stayed put for that reason, and that reason alone.
Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
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Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:00 pm to LSU0358
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The spotlight isn't so favorable and Mitch seems to have pissed people off on this issue. Instead of getting friendly coverage from a one statue a week removal we are in "get it over ASAP" mode.
one of the news stations was asking Mitch questions this morning on the morning news and you could tell he looked tired and worn out....he did not want to talk about the statues and where they were being stored.
It was written all over his face that he was in over his head but his ego will never let him admit it.
Instead after this is all over his pandering arse if going to issue an apology to everyone on how he handled the removal process but if he had to do it over again he wouldn't change a thing....he will say it was all worth it
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:01 pm to J Murdah
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I doubt you even care enough to get off your butt and go protest about it.
Uhh, the people who are for the monuments WORK for a living and actually contribute to the system.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:01 pm to tgrbaitn08
Correct. They'll eventually put a toussaint statue on the lee pedestal
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:02 pm to rt3
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looking like an erect penis in the middle of the circle
Lots of opportunities for "community artwork" displaying various items that are long white and erect. A middle finger would also work.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:03 pm to JS87
quote:They take them down at night.
Uhh, the people who are for the monuments WORK for a living and actually contribute to the system.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:03 pm to Clint Torres
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Correct. They'll eventually put a toussaint statue on the lee pedestal
That's a shame from the perspective that he never would have wanted that.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:03 pm to tgrbaitn08
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They're not removing the pedestal....
It will be left standing like a big middle finger frick YOU from Mitch to the rest of the city
I believe they are going to remove the pedestal tonight as well. Landrieu's plan it to build a large fountain by 2018 in place of Lee Circle.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:04 pm to ihometiger
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Landrieu's plan it to build a large fountain
will never work...water is racist
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:05 pm to ihometiger
The bums could use a place to bathe
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:05 pm to ihometiger
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Landrieu's plan it to build a large fountain
Hope it floods the city.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:05 pm to ihometiger
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Landrieu's plan it to build a large fountain
We can name it Mitchs' Ditch
This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to Topwater Trout
It will give the hundreds of homeless people living under the interstate a great place to take a bath and shower.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to ihometiger
that's cool I never knew it had a staircase inside.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to fouldeliverer
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but there is a difference between colonization efforts (for example he endorsed a venture to colonize a small island near Haiti in 1862) and sending them to slave plantations. I think that action was deplorable, but it isn't what you suggested.
And tell me... What other work would these former slaves do? The same they did here post civil war. Work the land just as they did before. Fact is that's the work that was available. And the treatment there was far worse than it is here.
Read up on the sugar and banana plantations and the treatment of the workers.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to ihometiger
nah, they will just put some cheesy arse painted fleur-de-lis up there and then a whole new fight will start over the symbolism of the fleur-de-lis
in other words, the fight never ends with the SJWs and that's the real issue here...for me at least it has NOTHING to do with supporting slavery or anything even remotely close
in other words, the fight never ends with the SJWs and that's the real issue here...for me at least it has NOTHING to do with supporting slavery or anything even remotely close
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to J Murdah
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They take them down at night.
Some people work at night.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:06 pm to Topwater Trout
It's just going to become a circle of panhandlers.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:07 pm to J Murdah
quote:Or maybe I'm a normal person who doesn't want my life ruined by this garbage
I doubt you even care enough to get off your butt and go protest about it.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 1:07 pm to Cajunate
That's all it is now
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