Confederate Statues removed in New Orleans

[accadacca]

[rockgremlin]

^^^ Apparently he asked to be removed...

[Iceaxe]

^^^ Apparently he asked to be removed...

^^^Fake News^^^

This is the spin as ESPN tries to rationalize.

This is also the point in time when liberals jumped the shark with regards to the Confederate issue.

[rockgremlin]

[devo_stevo]

This can't possibly be real??? If so, we've got real problems.

[Iceaxe]

ESPN has been in a nose dive since the 2014 ESPYs when it gave Caitlyn Jenner the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. ESPN's numbers have been in freefall ever since. I don't expect ESPN to be around in it's current form much longer. they have already been forced to get rid of all their high dollar on air talent, with the departure of the respected and well watched Chris Beman being at the top of the list. As more of the talents contracts come up for renewal more will be shown the door.

ESPN represents everything that is wrong with the PC culture.

ESPN becomes parody of itself with silly Robert Lee decision
http://www.weei.com/articles/column/...t-lee-decision

[Scott P]

This can't possibly be real??? If so, we've got real problems.

If it is real, he should sue the heck out of them for discrimination.

Anyway, below is the total number of times that I have ever watched ESPN:

0.

[BruteForce]

Small chunks of the USA are reverting to some form of mental dementia. Something in the water? Something in the air? Is it Russia or Korea? Who knows, but what I do know is that lunacy seems to taking hold on both coasts and in the press and that common sense isn't so common anymore.

[hank moon]

If it is real, he should sue the heck out of them for discrimination.

Anyway, below is the total number of times that I have ever watched ESPN:

0.

Ditto, as far as the TV station(s) go, but I'm watching O.J.: Made in America right now and it's quite good.

[twotimer]

To me, all of this is just Occupy Wall Street reborn. The media is just a dysfunctional circus now. The only part about it that I like is all the great looking blondes with the boobs.

I wonder though, what will come next when they get done with this statue thing...?

[accadacca]

[rockgremlin]

^^^ Oh damn! A rare post by Acca! It's like seeing a unicorn!

[oldno7]

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[devo_stevo]

....I wonder though, what will come next when they get done with this statue thing...?

I'm waiting for the protests at Mount Rushmore to get Washington's face blown off that thing to begin. Mark my words, it'll happen. Although, it'll be after August. Gotta give ALL the bikers a chance to get out of town. Don't want anyone getting beat up.

[Sombeech]

Sometimes certain parts of history need to be destroyed in the name of tolerance.

Or am I confused on that one

[Scott P]

I'm waiting for the protests at Mount Rushmore to get Washington's face blown off that thing to begin. Mark my words, it'll happen.

It won't happen.

The reason some people are upset about the Confederate Monuments are that they were put up in a time period many decades after the Civil War. Many of them were put up as a counter symbol of the Civil Rights Movement, during the John Crow era. They aren't part of the Civil War history.

Of course it is likely that some of the people are probably protesting just to protest.

[Iceaxe]

Let's be honest, most people are not upset about the monuments, most people could really care less.

This is much more about the fringe left and media attempting to throw any obstacle they can in front of Trump. This is just another version of the Russian unicorn. If this was actually an issue with most people they would have been protesting the past eight years or longer.

[hank moon]

If this was actually an issue with most people they would have been protesting the past eight years or longer.

Trump's win energized the White Supremacy Community (how's that for a euphemism?).

Hey, it's at least as plausible as the belief that Trump is making stocks go up.

Now, where were all them nasty Crackas when Big O. was in the house? Y'know, when they really had something to act up about? Oh yeah, I forgot - they're cowards.

[savanna3313]

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I thought I saw a resemblance there!!

[Brian in SLC]

Let's be honest, most people are not upset about the monuments, most people could really care less.

This is much more about the fringe left and media attempting to throw any obstacle they can in front of Trump. This is just another version of the Russian unicorn. If this was actually an issue with most people they would have been protesting the past eight years or longer.

The monuments have been controversial since they were put up. And, locally, they've been in the news for years.

Media and fringe left got involved as a reaction to a planned march/protest and the results. The city chose to take them down...in a slow evolutionary process that's been bubbling for years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/u...st-statue.html

Wasn't that many years ago, in southern towns I visited, that you could still see "colored only" bathrooms at county courthouses.

Have the "alt-right" folks been emboldened due to Trump? Well...look at the MAGA hats on folks carrying confederate and nazi flags. See any on the protesters?

Yeah, most of us are pretty far removed. But, even the LDS church issued multiple statements ON THE SAME DAY in the aftermath of this. Are they in collusion with the fringe left? I don't think so. What they are is aligning to be on the correct side of history?

Trump had a chance to get on board. He did, then he when off script (again) and lost it. He continues to disappoint. When he looses the alt-right he's done. After backwalking the Afghanistan situation...he's losing more and more ground every day...

Even Newt Gingrich knows good people don't walk with folks carrying swastikas. Trump is creating his own obstacles...