Another statue comes down.

Oñate no vale verga????

 

It’s clear I’m not going to change you mind, I could argue he had 600 slaves over the course of his life,

But then you would argue many of those 465 slaves were produced through the union of male and female slaves he owned.
Then I would argue, so he was breeding the next generation of slaves. Sending little kids to work out in the fields for 12 hours a day.
Then you would argue, not true, most of the little kids were working inside the estate sweeping floors, working in the kitchen, and polishing Paul Revere silver.
Then I would argue, then explain the horrific forensic evidence found in the slave cemetery unearthed in New York City in 1991, which revealed that children as young as 6 and 7 years old showed signs of advanced arthritis and broken bones. That could have only been the result of long days of unbearable hard labor and beatings.

 

Why wouldn't you just research it for yourself?

I mean, if you're gonna claim to know something...

 

I have.

 

I was in Boston a couple of days ago to take a look at the beheaded statue, and a picture, but it was removed and placed in storage.

btw you do realize that columbus and his crew and the european explorers that soon followed, are responsible the death of nearly 100,000,000 native inhabitants
on both continents from the spread of disease.

Sure your people introduced Europe to syphilis, but personally I wouldn't consider that a fair trade.

 

Yes I realize it all too well. I still don't think it helps to behead Columbus. It needlessly pisses off the Italians.

 

Screw the Italians, the Vikings were here 500 years before Columbus stepped foot in the new world.

 

It's over, it's done
The end is begun
If you listen to fools
The mob rules

 

I think not. The mob eventually fizzles out and Thermidor sets in when the bulk of the population goes home. We must do our best to resist temporary irrational impulses fueled by emotion.

 

Ah emotion that which will eventually lead to our downfall

 

Lolz @ the I love tacos tshirt

 

Regardless of what the cause, when it becomes a flock of sheep just following the mob mentality herd, you have to roll your eyes

 

First off I'll give you the benefit of the doubt you didn't know that Thomas Jefferson had a total of 600 slaves over the course of his life.

Secondly of course I'm not suggesting he sent his Slaves to New York, I'm only pointing out how slaves children were generally thought of
and brutally treated at the time of Jefferson.

 

And it just keeps getting dumber...

"Cereal giant Kellogg’s has been accused of racism by a former MP in Britain who has questioned why its popular breakfast treat Coco Pops is promoted with a monkey, while its white coloured stablemate Rice Krispies has three fair-skinned characters splashed on its box.

The former Labour politician Fiona Onasanya, who was jailed last year after she lied to police about a speeding ticket, wrote to the Kellogg’s demanding answers and shared her claims on social media.

She says there is no difference between the two cereal products other than flavour and colour."

Former MP says breakfast cereal Coco Pops is racist

 

Getting rid of the names and statues of traitors and rebels who fought for the Confederacy is one thing. Turning on all our national heroes--Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc.--is another. Since they were humans, they had major flaws, glossed over in our school texts. But they are remembered for their virtues and their outstanding contributions to our national history and institutions. It is certainly ironic that the President who told us "all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" owned nearly twice as many slaves as any other president.

No nation has gotten by without its heroes. If Gandhi is now under attack, who will be safe? Can we be sure that at some point it will not occur to some #me too zealot that we can't honor an MCP who was a notorious womanizer and adulterer, namely Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in West Potomac Park, despite his pivotal role in advancing civil rights in this country. JFK would be sure to go, under the same standard. Is there a single national leader we can revere as a national hero? The ones on Mount Rushmore are all under attack. Get out the chisels! The most saintly ones I can think of, Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter, were also failures as presidents. The movement against statuary is in danger of going too far, triggering a backlash which will be damaging to the movement and to our nation.

 

Tell that to the Italians! Memory of the Vikings didn't make much of a lasting impression.

 

I think the Russians were there even before the Vikings, via the 'ice bridge' across the Bering Strait !!!

 

Did I forget my sarcasm tag?