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Posted: 4/30/2016 6:36:26 PM EDT
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A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.

The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.

"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said while standing in front of the stone memorial, which sits next to the university's gleaming Speed Art museum that just completed a $60 million renovation.

Governments and universities across the country have re-evaluated displays of Confederate symbols following the racially motivated slayings last summer of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined. It was given to the city by the Kentucky Woman's Monument Association.

Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university, said he has been pushing for removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.

"I can't tell you how happy I am," Jones said after the announcement Friday. "I think this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the (university's) administration building."
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I expect that this will please many people and piss many others off, and there will be much sound and fury which will signify nothing.

See further entries under "how the wheels are starting to fall off the whole country through Kulturkampf and Balkanization" for additional learning on this point.

Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:46:24 PM EDT
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Disgusting.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:46:55 PM EDT
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Now a monument that celebrates the homosexual or transgender lifestyle can be put up.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:47:54 PM EDT
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Thank God they stopped them before they tried that again.


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Nailed it!!!!  

This is a disgrace
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:48:53 PM EDT
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:51:26 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:54:43 PM EDT
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ISIS kind of mindset.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:56:18 PM EDT
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Won't see the light of day anytime soon.





Link Posted: 4/30/2016 6:59:28 PM EDT
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA
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You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:01:55 PM EDT
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"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said
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Let me guess.....

Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:03:07 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:05:39 PM EDT
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You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


Obviously, he doesn't.  Probably publik screwl edumacated.

LC
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:09:49 PM EDT
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What does a "Professor of Pan-African studies" teach?
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Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:11:47 PM EDT
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


I get it. I went through several years where I was a big believer in the lost cause of the south and all that it entails. Then I actually read the founding documents of the confederacy and there's no way I'd still support it.

I don't know any other country that memorializes the losing side of their civil wars, we don't have monuments to the Loyalists of the Revolutionary War, and for good reason.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:12:10 PM EDT
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Like most of academia, liberal indoctrination.
 
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What does a "Professor of Pan-African studies" teach?

Like most of academia, liberal indoctrination.
 


AKA, how the white man kept the black man down and stole all his ideas.

LC
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:12:19 PM EDT
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Obviously, he doesn't.  Probably publik screwl edumacated.

LC
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


Obviously, he doesn't.  Probably publik screwl edumacated.

LC


Nope, Private school all my life. We learned critical thinking.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:13:49 PM EDT
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I get it. I went through several years where I was a big believer in the lost cause of the south and all that it entails. Then I actually read the founding documents of the confederacy and there's no way still support it.

I don't know any other country that memorializes the losing side of their civil wars, we don't have monuments to the Loyalists of the Revolutionary War, and for good reason.
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


I get it. I went through several years where I was a big believer in the lost cause of the south and all that it entails. Then I actually read the founding documents of the confederacy and there's no way still support it.

I don't know any other country that memorializes the losing side of their civil wars, we don't have monuments to the Loyalists of the Revolutionary War, and for good reason.


That's because they are not our countrymen.  The fact you can't see that doesn't speak well for your thought process.

LC
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:14:14 PM EDT
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Nope, Private school all my life. We learned critical thinking.
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


Obviously, he doesn't.  Probably publik screwl edumacated.

LC


Nope, Private school all my life. We learned critical thinking.


Pretty obviously not.

LC
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:15:10 PM EDT
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It's a shit school anyways. UK is the only school that matters in Kentucky.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:15:18 PM EDT
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That's because they are not our countrymen.  The fact you can't see that doesn't speak well for your thought process.

LC
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


I get it. I went through several years where I was a big believer in the lost cause of the south and all that it entails. Then I actually read the founding documents of the confederacy and there's no way still support it.

I don't know any other country that memorializes the losing side of their civil wars, we don't have monuments to the Loyalists of the Revolutionary War, and for good reason.


That's because they are not our countrymen.  The fact you can't see that doesn't speak well for your thought process.

LC


Really? Not a single person who fought in the loyalist militias stayed in the United States after the war and became citizens?

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Really? Not a single person who fought in the loyalist militias stayed in the United States after the war and became citizens?

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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.

Especially since KY wasn't even technically part of the CSA


You do realize that good Americans fought on both sides in the war and deserve respect and remembrance.


I get it. I went through several years where I was a big believer in the lost cause of the south and all that it entails. Then I actually read the founding documents of the confederacy and there's no way still support it.

I don't know any other country that memorializes the losing side of their civil wars, we don't have monuments to the Loyalists of the Revolutionary War, and for good reason.


That's because they are not our countrymen.  The fact you can't see that doesn't speak well for your thought process.

LC


Really? Not a single person who fought in the loyalist militias stayed in the United States after the war and became citizens?



Not sure, do you know of any?  I would assume they either left or decided to become citizens.  In any case, they felt their allegiance was to England.  I assume if they stayed they had to swear an oath, that is, become a naturalized citizen.

LC
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:30:30 PM EDT
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It's a shit school anyways. UK is the only school that matters in Kentucky.
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This man speaks the truth.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:46:43 PM EDT
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."


-George Orwell
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:47:09 PM EDT
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Those who cannot remember the past...something something...repeat..something
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:52:51 PM EDT
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Good riddance I say. You need more Obama and Al Sharpton statues to atone for your sins, you white devils.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:55:47 PM EDT
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"The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined."

RIGHT

That monument will never be displayed again
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 7:57:03 PM EDT
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The Orphan Brigade statute is an orphan.

Send it to me.  I'll proudly display it on my land. I'm only a couple hundred miles north of Glorietta Battlefield.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:06:48 PM EDT
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Another reason Louisville sucks.  

But I can't write this off, it'll happen here in lexington before too long.  There are several statues around here that the liberals who infest this city would love to get at.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:09:44 PM EDT
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Just an intellectual, politically correct way of saying it's going in a container or warehouse to be forgotten about.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:13:59 PM EDT
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Yep, tucked away for cleaning and forgotten



Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:14:54 PM EDT
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Erasing our nation's history one step at a time.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:17:49 PM EDT
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Whitewash??




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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."


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yep

Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:23:45 PM EDT
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The left is America's ISIS, tearing down statues, silencing free speech, revising history.




Yesterday we saw the same mindset that controls our media and funds terrorism use violence to attack those they wish to silence.





The new fight for Western civilization is against the left's Globalist fascism.
 
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:24:14 PM EDT
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What a bunch or arse.

How are you supposed to learn and reflect on history if you try to remove it?

Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:26:18 PM EDT
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A Confederate monument will be removed from a spot near the University of Louisville campus where it has stood since 1895.

The stone monument honoring Kentuckians who died for the Confederacy in the Civil War will be moved to another location, University President James Ramsey and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said during a surprise announcement Friday. The monument is capped with a statue of a Confederate soldier.

"It's time for us to move this monument to a more appropriate place," Ramsey said while standing in front of the stone memorial, which sits next to the university's gleaming Speed Art museum that just completed a $60 million renovation.

Governments and universities across the country have re-evaluated displays of Confederate symbols following the racially motivated slayings last summer of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The tall, obelisk-style monument will be disassembled and cleaned while it is in storage awaiting a new location, which has not been determined. It was given to the city by the Kentucky Woman's Monument Association.

Ricky Jones, a professor of Pan-African studies at the university, said he has been pushing for removal of the statue since he arrived at the university in the late 1990s.

"I can't tell you how happy I am," Jones said after the announcement Friday. "I think this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the (university's) administration building."
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To do the removal correctly, they should shell it with artillery like another group known for their tolerance did.  
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:29:12 PM EDT
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Never cared much about Confederate stuff until they started trying to take it all away.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:30:58 PM EDT
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I went to the University of Louisville's FB page and asked "When will Fuhrer Ramsey and Reichsmarschall Fischer start the book burning?"


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Coming soon to a campus near you.  We're practically there already..

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Bingo.

This and as another poster stated, this just a modern day communist "book burning".

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".  Another Orwell.
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Doesn't really make sense to memorialize the losers now does it.
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Considering that the loss of that war was the first step to the Federal Government reigning supreme, who's the fucking losers now?










536 or so motherfuckers and their public servant minions run the entire nation now. Raise your hand if you're happy.










Oh, but it was all about slavery. I almost forgot about that. Someone should have told that to the vast majority of Confederates who gave their lives for the cause, without ever once owning a slave.










Hey, but Black Lives Matter! Yessir.




 
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Link Posted: 4/30/2016 8:47:28 PM EDT
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Fuck U of L.

Actually, fuck Louisville too.
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Bingo.

This and as another poster stated, this just a modern day communist "book burning".

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".  Another Orwell.
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-George Orwell


Bingo.

This and as another poster stated, this just a modern day communist "book burning".

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".  Another Orwell.





Mount Rushmore, circa 2050.
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The left is America's ISIS, tearing down statues, silencing free speech, revising history.

Yesterday we saw the same mindset that controls our media and funds terrorism use violence to attack those they wish to silence.

The new fight for Western civilization is against the left's Globalist fascism.


 
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but sadly the majority will not see it until after it is all over.
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 9:15:12 PM EDT
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... this shit has gotten out of hand
Link Posted: 4/30/2016 9:17:55 PM EDT
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mother









fucker




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Link Posted: 4/30/2016 9:29:05 PM EDT
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What a bunch or arse.

How are you supposed to learn and reflect on history if you try to remove it?

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By reading a book? It is kinda of perplexing that there are monuments and memorials honoring people that killed American soldiers and other Americans in the United States. And, if they had won that war, the United States would of completely changed. Additionally, world history would of changed.

As somebody pointed out, you don't see Loyalists memorials in the United States even though most of them stay in the United States. However, you see a lot of Confederate memorials. Why is that? You should be asking that question.
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What a bunch or arse.

How are you supposed to learn and reflect on history if you try to remove it?

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Uh, study it through actual books, articles, and written documents.

Monuments are not intended, or very useful, for objective historical information or analysis.  They are tools of imagery and commemoration.  Therefore, it is fairly typical that communities remove symbols of past people and causes that no longer represent them.
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