Statues W/ Racist Histories Are being Removed Around the Country.Update: VA Supreme Court Rules Charlottesville Can Remove Confederate Statues

[Dwayne]

I don’t even get why losers were being celebrated

 

[SeaSnake]

In my mom hometown Columbia NC

 

[Marc123]

That one statue of the white dude riding a horse and a blk dude n a native American walkin along side him is some overtly racist shit

 

[Mr.LV]

That one statue of the white dude riding a horse and a blk dude n a native American walkin along side him is some overtly racist shit

Yeah that's Theodore Roosevelt statue in New York city in front of the American museum of Natural history is coming down

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I don’t even get why losers were being celebrated

They weren't. All those statues were put up during the Civil Rights era to intimidate black protesters.

 

[SeaSnake]

They weren't. All those statues were put up during the Civil Rights era to intimidate black protesters.

not all of em a lot were made early 1900s

 

[The Lonious Monk]

not all of em a lot were made early 1900s

That's true. Still even then, they were put up more as an intimidation tactic than celebration of the people. It was all racist from the start. The same goes with the confederate flag.

 

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Brian Kilmeade: Protesters Coming for the Statue of Liberty

Fox News' Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade had a rousing conversation on Wednesday about the latter's disdain for the protests against controversial public statues around the country.

www.mediaite.com

 

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[deadeye]

Their anger along with the Sicilians stems from the fact that there's a lot of negro ancestry in them and they don't get to look down their noses like northern white folks do so they go harder

Related clip:

 

[deadeye]

even if you don't trust the white boy toppling the confederate statue.........you can acknowledge that he's different to some degree from the white boy fighting to keep the statue from being toppled.

 

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