Should the Lee Circle statue be removed? (Houma, Independence: budget, pay)

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by Southern man

And after the statues are all gone, then everybody will be happy, right?

That's a good one.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by Southern man

And after the statues are all gone, then everybody will be happy, right?

Yeah...here's an updated list of demands.

Read Take ‘Em Down NOLA’s List Of Historical Names To Be Scrubbed In New Orleans Here | The Hayride

One reason so many people have expressed disgust with the effort by the social justice/race-hustling crowd in their attempts to destroy historical New Orleans landmarks like Lee Circle and the P.G.T. Beauregard statue is the prospect that there would be no end to those efforts – at least not until most of the city’s history, good and bad, would be plowed under.
Lo and behold, that concern has been validated and we now see just how radical the agitators demanding the removal of Lee Circle and other monuments really are. There is an organization called Take ‘Em Down NOLA which has been at the forefront of advocacy for monument removal, and it just issued a new set of demands for more changes to the landscape…
Street names:
Palmer Avenue
Calhoun Street
General Taylor Street
Claiborne Avenue
Galvez Street
Jefferson Davis Parkway (Mayor Mitch Landrieu has also called for Jefferson Davis Parkway to be renamed after recently retired Xavier University president Norman Francis).
General Ogden Street
Ulloa Street
Tulane Avenue
Governor Nicholls Street
Poydras Street
Forshey Street
General Early Street
Robert E. Lee Boulevard
Beauregard Avenue
Walker Street
Mouton Street
Bragg Street
Lane Street
Polk Avenue
Slidell Street
Lee Street
Beauregard Drive
General DeGaulle Drive
School names:
Tulane University
Henry W. Allen Elementary
McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School
KIPP McDonogh 15 School for the Creative Arts
ReNEW McDonogh City Park Academy
Lusher Charter School
Lusher Charter Elementary School
Hospital names:
Touro Infirmary
Tulane Medical Center
Monuments:
P.G.T. Bureaugard, at the City Park entrance near Esplanade Avenue.
Jefferson Davis at Canal Street and Jefferson Davis Parkway.
Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan at Jefferson Davis Parkway and Banks Street.
Confederate Brig. Gen. Albert Pike monument at Tulane Avenue and Jefferson Davis Parkway.
Henry Clay at Lafayette Square.
World War 1 Memorial arch at 3800 Burgundy Street (Take ‘Em Down NOLA cites the segregation of names of black soldiers from the names of white soldiers as a reason for wanting this monument’s removal).
Andrew Jackson monument in Jackson Square.
Justice Edward Douglass White in the 400 block of Royal Street.
Bienville monument at Conti and Decatur and North Peters streets.
Battle of Liberty Place monument near the foot of Iberville Street.
John McDonogh statue at Lafayette Square.
Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle.


Read more: Read Take ‘Em Down NOLA’s List Of Historical Names To Be Scrubbed In New Orleans Here | The Hayride

[Desert kid]

Originally Posted by Speleothem

Yeah...here's an updated list of demands.

Read Take ‘Em Down NOLA’s List Of Historical Names To Be Scrubbed In New Orleans Here | The Hayride

Sickening.

And I've been reading up on both Andrew Jackson and Alfred Mouton as of late.

[annie_himself]

Well it sucks to go to a school named after a guy who wanted to preserve his misguided superiority over you.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Well it sucks to go to a school named after a guy who wanted to preserve his misguided superiority over you.

Do you support renaming all of those streets?
I gotta wonder what they have against Charles de Gaulle.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Speleothem

Do you support renaming all of those streets?
I gotta wonder what they have against Charles de Gaulle.

I can't say that it doesn't drive me crazy to drive on Jefferson Davis. I'd assume it's the same as a jew driving on Heinrich Himmler Dr in Warsaw. Or something like a native American (which is an insult in itself) going to Andrew Jackson High School in Oklahoma.

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by Speleothem

Yeah...here's an updated list of demands.

Read Take ‘Em Down NOLA’s List Of Historical Names To Be Scrubbed In New Orleans Here | The Hayride

I must update my original post.

"And after the statues, streets, avenues, towns, county's,parks, etc are all gone or renamed, then everybody will be happy, right?
Or did I miss something?

[selogic]

Originally Posted by Southern man

I must update my original post.

"And after the statues, streets, avenues, towns, county's,parks, etc are all gone or renamed, then everybody will be happy, right?
Or did I miss something?

No , they will never be happy . The people who make a living by stirring the pot will find something else to use to further their agenda and their paychecks .

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Rewriting history and destroying monuments...sounds like the USSR and ISIS. It's what terror regimes do.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Dwatted Wabbit

Rewriting history and destroying monuments...sounds like the USSR and ISIS. It's what terror regimes do.

America rewrote history many times.
However, how is this rewriting history? Did the Civil War not take place anymore?