This isn't even close to the same argument. But you're going to believe what you want, and you're not going to budge one inch from your position. So believe whatever the hell you want.
The Confederate Monuments
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This isn't even close to the same argument. But you're going to believe what you want, and you're not going to budge one inch from your position. So believe whatever the hell you want.
Hey dipshit, did you return your CARES Act ACH deposit? Either you received it or you don't have a checking account. WalMart bill pay doesn't count.
The Nazi flag should be banned, there really is not good argument to support letting people just fly it.. you tried to make one but there really is not a good one.
Review for maintenance work surely?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/chicago-statues-abraham-lincoln.html
Chicago Lists Lincoln Statues Among Monuments to Review
A city commission, created after protests against racism last year, identified five statues of Abraham Lincoln among 41 monuments that should receive public scrutiny.
The review comes as other U.S. cities have made similar efforts to re-examine historical symbols and monuments that have come under new scrutiny in the wake of protests against racism and police violence. Last year, local leaders took down statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate leaders, among other monuments, and last month, the San Francisco school board voted to remove the names of modern and historical figures, including Lincoln and George Washington, from 44 of its public schools.
The committee in Chicago did not provide specific reasons that the statues of Lincoln, who started his political career in Illinois, should be reviewed. The list also includes statues of Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and several monuments to Indigenous people.
The committee said it had looked at 500 monumental sculptures, commemorative plaques and other pieces of public art in the city, almost all of which were created between 1893 and the 1930s. Forty-one were chosen for “public discussion,” the committee said, for reasons that included “promoting narratives of white supremacy”; the presentation of “inaccurate or demeaning characterizations of American Indians”; and memorializing historical figures with connections to racist acts, slavery and genocide.
Other reasons given were that the markers presented “selective, oversimplified, one-sided views of history” and created “tension between people who see value in these artworks and those who do not.”
“We invite you to review the artworks that have been identified, suggest others, and to share your opinions on the role of monuments in Chicago’s public spaces,” the committee, an advisory group of the “Chicago Monuments Project,” said on the effort’s website.
The project described its mission as grappling “with the often unacknowledged — or forgotten — history associated with the City’s various municipal art collections and provides a vehicle to address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/chicago-statues-abraham-lincoln.html
Chicago Lists Lincoln Statues Among Monuments to Review
A city commission, created after protests against racism last year, identified five statues of Abraham Lincoln among 41 monuments that should receive public scrutiny.
The review comes as other U.S. cities have made similar efforts to re-examine historical symbols and monuments that have come under new scrutiny in the wake of protests against racism and police violence. Last year, local leaders took down statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate leaders, among other monuments, and last month, the San Francisco school board voted to remove the names of modern and historical figures, including Lincoln and George Washington, from 44 of its public schools.
The committee in Chicago did not provide specific reasons that the statues of Lincoln, who started his political career in Illinois, should be reviewed. The list also includes statues of Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and several monuments to Indigenous people.
The committee said it had looked at 500 monumental sculptures, commemorative plaques and other pieces of public art in the city, almost all of which were created between 1893 and the 1930s. Forty-one were chosen for “public discussion,” the committee said, for reasons that included “promoting narratives of white supremacy”; the presentation of “inaccurate or demeaning characterizations of American Indians”; and memorializing historical figures with connections to racist acts, slavery and genocide.
Other reasons given were that the markers presented “selective, oversimplified, one-sided views of history” and created “tension between people who see value in these artworks and those who do not.”
“We invite you to review the artworks that have been identified, suggest others, and to share your opinions on the role of monuments in Chicago’s public spaces,” the committee, an advisory group of the “Chicago Monuments Project,” said on the effort’s website.
The project described its mission as grappling “with the often unacknowledged — or forgotten — history associated with the City’s various municipal art collections and provides a vehicle to address the hard truths of Chicago’s racial history.”
I wish they would leave Lincoln and Grant alone
If you haven't been drinkin', you might want to read this about Lincoln.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/li...-didnt-advocate-racial-equality-was-he-racist
The Real Confederate Flag
Keep those monuments up, many of them were actually great men.
Some more information on the 1898 Wilmington coup.
'The wound hasn't healed': Activists recount 1898 Wilmington coup that terrorized Black residents
The campaign claimed hundreds of Black lives as thousands more fled the city.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wound-hea...-wilmington-coup-terrorized/story?id=96955381