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the community organizers are still at it.

DocDoc Member Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Confederate Boulevard in Little Rock is now going to be renamed for some black guy nobody knows. The reason it has always been called Confederate Boulevard is because there is a Confederate cemetery right there. I suppose they will rename the cemetery next. These people will not be satisfied until all references to the War of Northern Aggression is totally eradicated.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i bet the ancestors of the buried should have a say in how these bozos are trying to denigrate their service, lives, and memories...and in NO uncertain terms....i hate this STUPID chit plastered about by those that have no real dog in the race
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    It's a petition being circulated. Couple of stories and news video about it:

    http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/little-rock/2015/07/02/petition-circling-to-have-confederate-blvd-changed/29648451/

    http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/07/02/movement-afoot-of-effort-to-change-name-of-lrs-confederate-boulevard

    Info on the cemetery:
    http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/Arkansas/Little_Rock_National_Cemetery.html
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shameful, politicians have no ballz.
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    Just so you know...

    We in the Elmira, NY area have a deep reverence for both the Confederate and Union men who sleep together in Woodlawn National Cemetery. There is no distinction between sides.

    For those who would erase history it might be of benefit to view photos of reunions between combatants that took place in the early 1900's. Those who served under the Stars and Bars and those who served under the Stars and Stripes came together in peace and friendship. There was honor on both sides.

    It's unfortunate and almost unthinkable that a very few could somehow distort the flag of an honorable people into a flag of hatred. Does it not occur to them that perhaps a proper education might be preferable to hatred of a symbol they fail to understand and wish to eliminate?

    Perhaps we should also eliminate the Union Jack here in the US. After all, this is July 4th and we celebrate the birth of the United States and the success of the Revolution over those nasty Brits. Maybe we should once again march in the streets in protest over King George, then erase the entire time from 1759 right on to the end of the War of 1812 from our history books.

    And we as a people put up with this nonsense? What fools we've become.
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  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unreal...
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well Doc? now it's in your town. who runs the place, the "community organizers" or the community? why don't you tell them that a name by itself doesn't do anything, and if they think the name of a street is racist or incites violence, you can tell them that it's merely a matter of opinion and freedom of speech is getting trampled upon.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Want to know when that is all gone what will they have to complain about and blame their troubles on next.
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  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nord
    Just so you know...

    We in the Elmira, NY area have a deep reverence for both the Confederate and Union men who sleep together in Woodlawn National Cemetery. There is no distinction between sides.

    For those who would erase history it might be of benefit to view photos of reunions between combatants that took place in the early 1900's. Those who served under the Stars and Bars and those who served under the Stars and Stripes came together in peace and friendship. There was honor on both sides.

    It's unfortunate and almost unthinkable that a very few could somehow distort the flag of an honorable people into a flag of hatred. Does it not occur to them that perhaps a proper education might be preferable to hatred of a symbol they fail to understand and wish to eliminate?

    Perhaps we should also eliminate the Union Jack here in the US. After all, this is July 4th and we celebrate the birth of the United States and the success of the Revolution over those nasty Brits. Maybe we should once again march in the streets in protest over King George, then erase the entire time from 1759 right on to the end of the War of 1812 from our history books.

    And we as a people put up with this nonsense? What fools we've become.
    Well said. More young men lost their lives in the War of Northern Aggression than all other wars in which we've been involved combined.
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