Old State Capitol Democrat/Socialist Exhibits

Did you see the Louisiana Purchase?

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Did you see the Louisiana Purchase?

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The land or the card?

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Yes, La. Purchase, that huge chunk of land that was stolen from the indigenous people’s. You know the ones that migrated from Asia so they’re really not indigenous.

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Yeah but which indigenous tribe owned said huge chunk of land before ten other indigenous tribes stole said huge chunk of land?

Eternal victimhood yields eternal funding and political capital.

Well our new state capital exhibits Democrat socialism in real time. Most of it provided by the Republican Party

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I’m sorry, but that stuff is part of our history

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Tell that to the statues that have been torn down

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Sooo we should pretend that stuff never happened? Take it out of schools and museums?

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That is exactly what has been done by Democrat Mayors and Governors all over the country

Everything is woke.

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We have 10 commandments in schools now bro, it will fix everything.

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Cry.

I taught Louisiana History in an inner city school here in br for twenty years.

I had to prove to my students that the modern Louisiana that they saw everyday did not always exist.

At first they did not believe that New Orleans was originally a swampy cypress forest with no streets or any structures of any kind.
They believed the same about br , Shreveport ,or any large city in our state.

Most of the were 13 or older but have never even travelled to Port Allen.

It was difficult to talk people into colonizing Louisiana, no one wanted to come here. It was hard to clear the land, fight insects, reptiles , and diseases. There was no a/c.

Prior to WW2 Louisiana was mainly an agricultural state. Democrats had control of the state since Claiborne had been governor, all the way until Mike Foster. My students believed that all whites in the state owned slaves. I had to show them that only the wealthy landowners could afford to own slaves.

With regard to the display at the old state capitol one should realize just how long this state has been mired in barbarism, both political and economic. Our state could really make some advancements if we could attract more high tech jobs that were not related to petroleum chemicals. I would like to see some balance in these types of displays that illustrate our past but also show what the state can be like in the future, a future of positive growth.