Pastor: REmo Presidents’ Names From Washington, Jackson Parks Over Ties To Slavery

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Originally Posted by whell

40 years ago, Senator Byrd introduced a resolution in the Senate restoring Robert E Lee's citizenship. It was signed by President Gerald Ford. From the article:

Senator Harry F. Byrd, independent of Virginia, spearheaded the drive for Senate passage, and the Virginia delegation in the House united in pushing it through that body.

“If Robert E. Lee is not worthy of being a United States, citizen, then who is?” Representative M. Caldwell Butler, Republican of Virginia, asked ‘during House floor debate today.

(Note - Butler would later become a key vote to impeach Nixon.)

40 years later we're tearing down statues of Robert E Lee. Who would have considered that this might be possible 40 years ago. Whose to say that 40 years from now, it will be considered unconscionable to have monuments to Washington or Jefferson on public lands?

What you just posted has nothing to do with my post and is but an poor attempt to strengthen your fairly weak OP.

In answer to your question, certainly not me because I'll be long gone.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

40 years ago, Senator Byrd introduced a resolution in the Senate restoring Robert E Lee's citizenship. It was signed by President Gerald Ford. From the article:

Senator Harry F. Byrd, independent of Virginia, spearheaded the drive for Senate passage, and the Virginia delegation in the House united in pushing it through that body.

“If Robert E. Lee is not worthy of being a United States, citizen, then who is?” Representative M. Caldwell Butler, Republican of Virginia, asked ‘during House floor debate today.

(Note - Butler would later become a key vote to impeach Nixon.)

40 years later we're tearing down statues of Robert E Lee. Who would have considered that this might be possible 40 years ago. Whose to say that 40 years from now, it will be considered unconscionable to have monuments to Washington or Jefferson on public lands?

Your slippery slope argument still doesn't provide cover for your Trumpenfuhrer's Nazi sympathies. BTW, people don't learn history from statues of dead people. They learn it from history books (provided, of course, that the Texas Schoolbook Commission doesn't revise our history away in favor of some Right Wing hagiography.)

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Originally Posted by finnbow

Because that's exactly I say what it is..

fixed it for you.