re: Welp, found one of the NOLA monument "secret donors"

What a POS

I once met him at a Music master class. He was a complete racist. He told us white musicians that we weren't capable of playing like the black musicians.

We were shocked at what an arse he was.

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Why does it always have to be some offended liberal democrat in NY that thinks he can run the south from afar?

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who cares? it was a monument to a dude that fought against the united states...in the united states. melt more.

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And you couldn't figure out you were supposed to be offended by it until someone told you that you should 130 years after it was erected and stood for all that time.

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it took that long to get enough people in the city council that weren't rebellion loving bigots.

lee's statue never offended me, but i'm a white guy soooo...

Don't confuse Puritans and Puritanism with the way those are used today.
Puritans wanted "pure" worship, it's about worship/liturgy. If you look at a Puritan "meeting house" it's devoid of ANY artistic work, or anything that helps one envision heaven. It was "pure" worship of the Word without ANYTHING that smacked of Catholic worship or Catholic artistic tradition.

They had other problems as well, but this was the intent.

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If he died, would New Orleans care?


I don't think so.

double post.

Regarding the statement: "I once met him at a Music master class. He was a complete racist. He told us white musicians that we weren't capable of playing like the black musicians."

Yes, that's all part of the new revisionist history that would deny a multicultural interpretation of jazz's origins and make it an all-black brainstorm. Last time I checked, Sicilian-Americans were very much involved in jazz's early origins, cut the first jazz record, gave us Sharkey Bonano, Louie Prima, Sam Butera, etc. And it was the Creole musicians with classical training -- with a little coffee in their cream -- that infused musicianship into the more bluesy, Afro-centric music of Buddy Bolden. And of course the white dance bands and military marching bands contributed the tunes that were improvised upon.

It's just like the revisionist history regarding Treme: I know a bunch of white people who grew up there in the 40s and 50s, yet all we hear about now is its black origins. Now, of course, through the steamrolling power of gentrification, it's rapidly going back to more white than anything, at least the part off Rampart Street.

Everything now has to be divisive and combative and black dominated, or you're a racist.

You're gonna care when LSU can no longer be "Fighting Tigers" because of the Civil War reference behind the name. That's coming. You can believe that.

I mean afterall, the Louisiana Tigers helped to fight against the United States... in the United States. Right?

Robert e Lee led a rebellion against the United States of America.He was fighting for a country whose economy was built on the enslavement of other human beings.I can't think of a worse cause to be fighting for.

Before you start calling me a Yankee or a member of a "certain demographic" I'll let you know I was born and raised in South Alabama and I had several relatives who fought for the South...including one who charged Little Round Top.

I understand why they fought but I will not celebrate the cause they fought for. I'm glad the North won.Now please downvote me all you want.

I also completely understand the reasons why the statues were taken down and I have to say I agree that it was time to remove them.