Why do we let Republicans defend the Confederacy?

Yeap. About time. One of my best friends daughter is a senior there and has been leading the student movement to change the name. Still have a couple of elementary and middle schools named JEB Stuart in the South.

 

Of course a long stretch of US route 1 in VA is named Jefferson Davis Highway. Just about every major non-Interstate highway in VA is named after a confederate.

 

Yeah...Mentioned the J. Davis Highway last week. I cringe every time I drive on it.

 

Love this picture. Look at the expression on the left.



The person on the right said "“It absolutely deserves a place because bad history is still good history for this country,” Pierson said.

“Slavery is good?” Osefo asked.

“Considering where we are today, where we are today. Absolutely,” Pierson said.

@Auriaprottu and @onefineesq you ungrateful bastards, should long for the days of slavery.

UNLV is still the Running Rebels, I think.

 

That seems sensible.

 

I wonder if they would work as oyster reefs?

 

Being the key part "running"...

 

My high school mascot was the Barons Go figure, hardly a castle in the county.

 

After the Christian School my wife attended folded in the 9th grade, she went to public HS for the final 3 years.

US Grant HS | Colors: Red & Confederate Gray

 

Crazy times here in the US.

 

We can't sing Dixie any more either?

 

Frederick Douglass might be acceptable, since he has Trump's imprimatur.

 

I'm holding out for the Nat Turner statues.

 

Somebody in Oklahoma has a sense of humor.

 

Margaret Higgins Sanger has a bust in the Smithsonian, she killed more black children than any Confederate General, yet she is a liberal heroine.

 

Nah..... Can't be Frederick Douglas is still alive. You have to be dead to have your name on a school.....

 

What next? A solar eclipse?

 

Why There Are No Nazi Statues in Germany
What the South can learn from postwar Europe

In Germany, you won’t see neo-Nazis converging on a monument to Reinhard Heydrich or Adolf Hitler, because no such statues exist. The country long ago came to grips with the full weight of its history. But you’ll find Nazis and Klansmen in Virginia, circling a statue of Robert E. Lee, a traitor who raised arms against his own country in the defense of white supremacy.

How do we explain to the descendants of his victims—fallen Union soldiers and widows, and so many million slaves—that Robert E. Lee doesn’t deserve the same eternal infamy as Eichmann or Heydrich?

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510

 

"But you’ll find Nazis and Klansmen in Virginia."

Nazis and Klansmen make up 0.00001% of the population, I imagine you have more in Germany than here in the States, the difference is we don't have laws outlawing stupidity so we let them assemble.

 

You have to, to live here

 

Never heard of her

 

Close, kkk about .000025 on the high end.

Add nazis, then alt right, then just run of the mill white supremacist.

Still a small number, the bulk are your typical racist.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-many-nazis-are-there-in-america-really

 

I guess you don't care about POC.

 

I am going to guess it has to do with abortion rights.

 

Safe to say there are probably more Nazis and obnoxious Skin Heads in Herr 1860's Germany than there are in America.