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Title: Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd
Post by: mystery-ak on August 17, 2017, 05:00:44 pm

August 17, 2017
Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd
By Daniel John Sobieski

President Trump had it right when, during his press conference on infrastructure he addressed the nonstop questions on Charlottesville, he asked if those obsessed with fears of white nationalism if they would also remove statues and monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both slaveowners, in addition to the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Trump’s critics responded that while Washington and Jefferson were slaveowners, they did not go to war to defend slavery. True enough, but also true is the fact that white nationalism had its roots in the Democratic post-Civil War south and that the KKK was founded by Democrats to suppress blacks liberated by the Republican administration of President Abraham Lincoln.

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Title: Re: Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on August 17, 2017, 05:05:47 pm

Take down the statues of Robert Byrd, then end the Democrat Party.

Title: Re: Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd
Post by: goatprairie on August 17, 2017, 05:15:04 pm

Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on August 17, 2017, 05:05:47 pm

Take down the statues of Robert Byrd, then end the Democrat Party.

Absolutely. It's irrefutable that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery and segregation.  To use current lib logic, it should be demolished.

Title: Re: Take Down the Statues of Robert Byrd
Post by: dfwgator on August 17, 2017, 05:16:34 pm

I say keep them up as a constant reminder.