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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING - Protesters in Durham topple confederate monument downtown [View all]Bladewire
(381 posts)11. ☝️ into an Obama statue
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Ahhh. A call for unity by accusing multiple du members of being Russian trolls.
Weekend Warrior
Aug 2017
#17
I never saw you before tonight, and you seem to be all over the place with odd comments
Hekate
Aug 2017
#64
The Northeast has monuments of almost the exact design in many small towns.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#18
Are they Civil War memorials or pertain to our national struggle with race?
Barack_America
Aug 2017
#31
They are Civil War dead monuments with a nameless anonymous soldier on top.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#35
None of which, as far as I'm aware of, are of the United States' enemies in those wars.
eShirl
Aug 2017
#61
They aren't always old, but it's bad politics to go after one without a traitor on top.
NutmegYankee
Aug 2017
#30
Would "Anything that went up...." include the Civil War Unknowns Monument in Arlington Cemetary?
Petrushka
Aug 2017
#34
Maybe? Would one "wish to remember" the Confederate Memorial in Arlington and what it represents?--
Petrushka
Aug 2017
#44
Pretty much all those Confederate statues went up in the 1920s, one of the heydays of the KKK...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#63
When they died fighting against the USA to defend their enslavement of other human beings,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2017
#19
What is your basis for the assertion that the citizens of Durham wanted it taken down?
Ms. Toad
Aug 2017
#53
The law was passed two years ago, a month after the Charleston shootings, as anti-Confederate
struggle4progress
Aug 2017
#78
local government wants it down but the racist state legislature wont let them
grantcart
Aug 2017
#37
And if someone goes after the FDR memorial for Japanese internment camps? nt
MadDAsHell
Aug 2017
#55