acknowledgeurma

Hmm, could you rephrase your statement? Is this another test of the validity of Poe's Law?
Is irony called irony, because it is hard (to understand) like iron?

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

No, it is called irony because it's ironical and like iron hard to penetrate. Exchanges such as this often become not just redundant but repetitious as well and they tend to cover the same things over and over again and again and again but also agayne and agayne and agayne. But I didn't say that I didn't say it, I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that perfectly clear. Do you understand?

acknowledgeurma

Uhh...what is the it...?

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Exactly. Made about as much sense as what you posted.

Morgan

I agree with you on this one, we are who we are by our past actions and how we've pulled through them, if anything they're a good topic opener when gazing upon them.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

I couldn't believe it when I read that. Texas was indeed in The Confederacy & had a better claim to sovereignty than most of the others, having been an independent country for years.

DJRich Loc: Western Pa

Some simply reject the truth, even to the extent of "Remember the Alamo"

Thanks for educating those that don't even know their own states history

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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When I was in the NAVY in the 1960s I don't think any people that I met knew more about
their State history or were more proud of their State than Texans.
People from the South in general seemed to know a lot about their state's history.

acknowledgeurma

Growing up and receiving all my schooling in Texas, I definitely was taught a lot about a "version" of my state's history.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

I sort of get what you have said, not sure, but it seems that you are saying that the south lost the war and should now accept the removal of all vestiges of that war which apparently you feel was only about slavery, else why would you want to remove the statues??

The removal of the statues, whether in your mind like this or not, is because they represent a fight to maintain slavery and were owners of slaves. I would ask at what point does it become too much and why is this a "now " issue? There was a self proclaimed black president for eight years and this never came up, not until Trump won and he is perceived as a racist. To me the removal of these statues is simply a smack back at the president for his perceived racism and has absolutely nothing to do with slavery and the civil war. If it truly does, then we need to take down the Washington monument and get Washington's face off that mountain in Dakota!! And the list would go on and on.

Add to that, the majority of the population of all races support leaving the statues and simply adding a plaque of explanation regarding the slavery issues and the racism involved. Why are we going to capitulate to a very vocal minority who are not even concerned about the racism issue in the first place, but are simply looking to do a "gotcha" at president Trump?????? He won the election, remember!!?? LOL!

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

And the argument has been made that segregation and Jim Crow were smack back at the Union for the loss of The War for Confederate Secession & the extortionate excesses of Reconstruction.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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You are correct, it is time for the sore losers to accept the fact that President Trump won and is now OUR President and it is time for all sides to work with the President to do what is best for the country

acknowledgeurma

I for one have wondered, for at least 50 years, why in the United States of America we have been afflicted with these monuments to faithless traitors to the United States of America? But in the interests of frugality, let's not remove them or put up explanatory plaques. Let's cut off the noses of these "beautiful statues" or maybe put big red clown noses on them.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

It was the Union people who were the traitors.

DJRich Loc: Western Pa

No, the Union WON, they were the VICTORS, and despite lies, distortions and denials, the south, confederacy, or rebels, LOST the war they STARTED.

Too damn bad so many of them still want to keep fighting the same old war