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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 8:38:00 GMT -6
This statue was taken down because we have a cowardly Mayor. It's been there as you saw a long time and it hurt Nothing. There are those now that are seeking to impose their will on the majority and are actually doing it. The Liberals have finally shot themselves in the foot.
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Post by matador on Sept 4, 2017 18:40:22 GMT -6
This statue was taken down because we have a cowardly Mayor. It's been there as you saw a long time and it hurt Nothing. There are those now that are seeking to impose their will on the majority and are actually doing it. The Liberals have finally shot themselves in the foot. It isn't just liberals, it is the weak far left that is causing all the ruckus. What bothers me the most is they want to take down some real heroes that were not nor did not support the war. The fools are going after soldiers, none of which owned slaves and fought for their states. There were slave owners who did not support the war, and even some who supported the war were not slave owners. One that I have fought to keep is our beloved Sam Houston. Yes he was a slave owner but he also did not support the war, he released his few slaves before the war began, but more importantly he also led the Texas revolution to freedom from Mexico. So he is more than just a hero to us Texans. I wrote a long essay that was published in our local newspapers and a couple major ones in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio. That if they want to take down Sam Houston they need to get rid of all slave owners, G. Washington, T. Jefferson, go after all the cities and town where auctions were held, The banks that financed the purchases of slaves, and maybe, just maybe, I'll let them take down good ol' Sam. Oh, yeah, while on this subject... I believe that any and all statues and references should be removed for Gen Sherman. He literally burned his way through the south, killing hundreds of women and children, burning cities and towns without any thought. He was a war criminal and should be treated as one.
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Post by rdlb on Sept 8, 2017 10:42:50 GMT -6
If we do not remember our history good and bad then our future generations might repeat the bad.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 5:22:29 GMT -6
What about people like Thomas Jefferson who owned 600 slaves. I think their were 10 presidents who owned slaves. Slavery was wrong but it was another place in time we need to pick up the pieces and move on.
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Post by lowell on Sept 25, 2017 0:36:00 GMT -6
Texas was the last State to give Blacks the right to vote.It was also the last to abolish slavery. I don't have a problem with Sam Huston personally, but if it eases racial tensions, put the statue in a museum. The dream of some sons of the confederacy is to win the civil war, all these years later. It is the dream to rid the Federal Government of power and to let States decide whether to allow Blacks to vote and hold office. Some have claimed that racism no longer exists, but recent events have shown that it does. White supremacists are emerging again in Russia, Germany and the U.S. They shall not prevail. This idea that any race is superior is as old as the Bible and has led to defeat, death and intense suffering for any racial group that attached themselves to that idea. It ruined the Jews of the beginning of the Christian era (Masada). It ruined Japan through the Shinto beliefs that Japanese were superior. It ruined Germany through the Nazi beliefs of Germanic superiority. It will ruin our country if we let it. So those slave owners who opposed the emancipation proclamation are the significant ones to those who would remove statues.
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