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06-04-2020, 09:29 PM #51
NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu explains why confederate monuments were taken down in his city
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06-04-2020, 09:32 PM #52Funky But Chic
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Former mayor just for the record
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06-04-2020, 09:34 PM #53"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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06-04-2020, 09:41 PM #54
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06-04-2020, 09:45 PM #55
For someone who is usually pretty thoughtful, you have completely missed the mark. Battlefield monuments are one thing, but the statues and flags were not put up to commemorate history. They were put up to send a message to black people, 50-100 years later. Was John Chivingtaun's statue erected precisely to send a message to Indians, to tell them that they were subhuman and subjugated? Or was it erected because he was (mistakenly) considered a hero?
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"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-04-2020, 09:58 PM #56
The ultimate troll.
Wow.
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06-04-2020, 10:36 PM #57Registered Useless
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Yup. My parents' church in had a plaque commemorating the time(s) Robert E Lee worshipped there. They took them down not because of what they said, but because of when it was put up. The historical context of when monuments are erected, not just their content, is inextricable from their meaning.
Across the street, the 30 foot tall pillar with a life sized Bobert Lee on top was in no way constructed to honor the more than 750,000 fallen. It was quietly removed a few years back in the middle of the night with no public warning. No judgment on that - but I just think of how much fun those folks seemed to be having when that tank tore down the saddam statue in 2003 and feel like an opportunity was missed...
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06-04-2020, 11:35 PM #58
Virgil quick come see..
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06-05-2020, 12:19 AM #59
The Civil War never ended. Only the shooting stopped, for the most part. The battle to remove the statues is just that--one more Civil War battle, a bloodless one for the most part. But not the last battle, not by a long shot.
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06-05-2020, 04:48 AM #60
in mt religion we dont throw stones
we gits
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i hope to ski doobie doubies
then i will have skied it trice
whateverz ya wanna call it
fine with me not a lot of people ski it
its easier to sit home and argue politics
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06-05-2020, 05:36 AM #61
It seems most of these statues serve no other purpose than being a silent sentinel standing over people to oppress and should be removed. Sort of like the Sadam shit in Iraq.
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06-05-2020, 05:47 AM #62
This is exactly the point. People are strange and do all sorts of things. On the periphery, this sort of thing may be considered art by some. One person has said that these things are poorly made and basically worthless, but maybe not to all. That is what I am trying to discover. In my warped mind, I can see some plantation owner, or some other tried and true southerner, maybe named Billy Bob or Buford who owns 10+ acres to eat this shit up. Think Dukes Of Hazard types. One man's art is another's garbage. So odd? Yes.
So far, there have been 60+ posts and you, and maybe one other has addressed the question posted. To me, that's odd....but typically TGR.Last edited by schindlerpiste; 06-05-2020 at 06:42 AM.
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06-05-2020, 05:55 AM #63
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06-05-2020, 06:13 AM #64
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06-05-2020, 06:44 AM #65
Any way, here is a very interesting article that addresses the question of what happens to confederate monuments when they are taken down. The answer surprised me, and no doubt will puzzle many posting here. Educate yourselves. Read the article:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-...uments-removed
Across the United States, Confederate monuments are coming down. In New Orleans, four were removed earlier this year by workers whose faces were covered to protect their identities; in Durham, North Carolina, one was toppled by frustrated protesters this past Monday; and on Wednesday, four were ferried away on flatbed trucks before dawn in Baltimore.
So where do they go next?
The removals themselves often occur after protracted legal battles and amid pitched protests—the most high-profile of which resulted in the killing of a counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend. But the fate of these monuments once they’re taken down from their pedestals does not receive the same level of attention. Now, as a growing number of cities propose the removal of local Confederate statues and monuments (there are more than 700 on public land across the county), the often overlooked matter of what comes next is poised to become increasingly significant.
In 2015, two candidates from the University of Texas at Austin’s satire magazine were elected to lead the student government—largely on the basis of their promise to remove a statue of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis from campus. University president Greg Fenves soon convened a 12-person advisory panel to determine the statue’s fate.
Composed of professors, students, and alumni, the group offered a series of proposals that ranged from outright removal to the addition of contextual plaques. In the end, Fenves declared that the statue of Davis would be relocated to an on-campus museum. It was taken down in August 2015; 20 months later, it was installed in the newly-renovated Briscoe Center for American History, where it is accompanied by a plaque that reads, in part: “[T]he statue’s presence in an educational exhibit—as opposed to a place of honor on campus—underlines the fact that Davis, as well as many of his ideas and actions, are no longer commemorated or endorsed by the university.” (Three other statues of Confederate leaders remain on campus in their original locations.)
Indeed, despite the heated debate around their removal, Confederate monuments are almost never destroyed after they are taken down. The majority are or likely will be relocated to museums or historical sites.
In April 2016, another school—Kentucky’s University of Louisville—announced its decision to remove a 70-foot-tall concrete pedestal, topped with a statue of a Confederate soldier, from campus. Following a public comment period, Louisville’s Commission for Public Art considered “five or six” historical sites for relocation, Louisville’s public art administrator Sarah Lindgren told Artsy. These included several Kentucky Civil War battlefield sites, a Confederate cemetery, and the state’s Civil War museum.
They were also approached by the Ratcliffe Foundation, a private organization based in Virginia that is “accepting [Confederate monuments] onto their property with the promise to maintain them for historical sake,” according to Lindgren. (The foundation did not respond to a request for comment.)
Ultimately, the commission relocated the monument to a public, rather than private, location. “There was still a lot of support for the monument,” Lindgren said. “One of the considerations was that it should be accessible.” The mayor selected the nearby town of Brandenburg—home to a significant Civil War battlefield—to receive the monument, which was dedicated in May. The whole process took about six months, according to Lindgren.
Confederate monuments have also been relocated to cemeteries. In Gainesville, Florida, the local government was having trouble finding a new spot for its monument to fallen Confederate soldiers that stood in front of a county administration building.
“The solution, which should have been obvious from the beginning, was simply to give it back to who gave it to us,” county commissioner Robert Hutchinson said.
The original donors were the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who found a new spot for their 113-year-old statue in a nearby cemetery. County officials had no control where it would ultimately be taken, and Hutchison said they were also unsure as to whether the UDC had plans to add a historical plaque to the statue.
Sometimes the removal of the monument precedes the decision about where it will end up. When New Orleans took down its Confederate monuments, the first of which was removed this April, they were put into storage in an undisclosed location. A plan for their fate is now being determined. (Baltimore, which removed four monuments this week, also has placed them in storage in an unnamed location.)
In May, the New Orleans mayor’s office floated several potential sites: Beauvoir (the home of Jefferson Davis’s Presidential Library), the Smithsonian, and Washington and Lee University. The school immediately announced that it was not, in fact, interested in the monument to Robert E. Lee because “the statue that exists in New Orleans is about his time as a soldier, and their university focuses on any work he did around education post the war.”
Through this summer, the city was accepting proposals for what to do with the monuments, receiving suggestions from nonprofits and government agencies. It has assembled a committee of city officials to sort through the feedback and make a final recommendation to the New Orleans city council. Proposals must detail how the organization “will place the statues in context, both in terms of why they were first erected and why the City chose to remove them in 2015.” The city has also stipulated that the monuments cannot again be displayed outdoors on public property in Orleans Parish.
A Confederate monument that once stood in St. Louis has also been in storage since its removal in July. Mark Trout, founder and director of the Missouri Civil War Museum, now has custody of the statue following a legal battle with the city that resulted in a settlement. The settlement dictates that the monument cannot be placed within the city of St. Louis or the wider St. Louis County. “We may not have it taken off our hands,” Trout said. “It’s something that the museum may always hang on to.”
The bronze portion, Trout told Artsy, was painted by protestors and the city’s resulting use of paint stripper damaged the work. It will be undergoing restoration for the next six to 12 months. The stone base—all 200,000 pounds of it—is in protective storage. “The longterm goal for it would obviously be to find a suitable place for it at a Civil War battlefield, a Civil War cemetery, or a museum property but we have to see where it all goes.”
He said he’d just gotten off the phone with a museum in Arkansas that was asking for advice in dealing with a similar situation. “I don’t think this is the last Confederate monument that I’m going to be involved in saving,” he said.“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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06-05-2020, 06:46 AM #66
As others have said, they're not art. They are not heritage. Read Danno's links. They are symbols of oppression installed as a warning on from high to remind African Americans that while they might have won freedom as an outcome of the south losing the civil war they still weren't real people and certainly didn't have real freedom in the south. The statues were enacted after the war as a conscious reminder that the structure of southern society would not change, and former slaves still had no rights and no choices, and should and would be terrorized at white people's whims. Many people still see the power of the symbolism and either use it to oppress or feel oppressed by it every day.
If we want to be a truly inclusive society then there is zero justification for not tearing them down. There is no reason to keep them that remotely approaches offsetting the pain they cause a huge number of people.
If you want to be a contrarian and talk about other categories of monuments that might be causing pain, that's fine, we can do that. But that doesn't in any way change the right answer here.
Educate yourself about the monuments. Find out who put them up and why. See the trauma the represent. Show some understanding. Then tear them down.
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06-05-2020, 07:14 AM #67
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06-05-2020, 07:30 AM #68
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06-05-2020, 07:35 AM #69
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06-05-2020, 07:39 AM #70
i thinks the nat geo was better when they printed great photography a good factual articles in a glossy print mag i always looked forward to receiving
vrs the op edge/ed game
but thats whats the public wants now
but yeah
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06-05-2020, 08:14 AM #71
If you want to memorialize the Civil War dead, Maya Lin set a pretty good example. If we were to follow the Southern model there would be a statue of William Westmoreland on the National Mall.
Many towns have plaques listing the names of the town's dead, perhaps with a cross or a pillar or other, unoffensive marker. Maybe some towns in the South have them.
I remember passing a wall in France--wish I could remember where--covered with individual plaques, each with a name and the phrase "Mort pour la France".
We should remember the war dead, whether they were on the winning side or the losing side, the "right" side or the "wrong" side. Maybe it will help us avoid the next war.
We should try to forget most of the generals and politicians who sent those men and women off to die, as best we can.
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06-05-2020, 08:32 AM #72
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06-05-2020, 08:38 AM #73
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06-05-2020, 08:42 AM #74
An interesting side note from here in New Mexico. Back in 1598 a Spanish conquistador named Juan de Oñate here in NM directed a raid on the Indian Pueblo of Acoma because his crew was low on food for the coming winter. The Acoma said fuck you and resisted, killing a dozen or so Spaniards, including Oñate’s nephew. Oñate reacted typically and killed several hundred Acoma, and ordered the right foot of surviving adult males amputated, along with some other severe reprisals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Massacre
Naturally some hard feelings resulted. A large statue of Oñate on horseback was erected north of Santa Fe, and in 1998 during the 400 year anniversary of Spanish entry to NM a group of Acoma snuck in at night and cut the right foot off the statue. It’s been replaced and security around the statue increased, but it still rubs local Indians the wrong way.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/630.html
We took the liberty of removing Oñate's right foot on behalf of our brothers and sister of Acoma Pueblo ... We see no glory in celebrating Oñate's fourth centennial, and we do not want our faces rubbed in it.
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06-05-2020, 08:59 AM #75
^ so to follow the logic of the thread that makes you a mexican uncle tom muther fuckin cracker ass etc.etc.etc. Which I know your're not but let's keep the thead logic alive.
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