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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 2, 2023, 8:09 pm
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HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-contractors-wouldn-t-remove-confederate-statues-so-a-black-man-did-it/ar-AA15T0tX
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> City and state officials said they turned to Team Henry
Enterprises after a long list of bigger contractors — all
White-owned — said they wanted no part of taking down
Confederate statues.
>
> For a Black man to step in carried enormous risk. Henry
concealed the name of his company for a time and long shunned
media interviews. He has endured death threats, seen employees
walk away and been told by others in the industry that his
future is ruined. He started wearing a bulletproof vest on job
sites and got a permit to carry a concealed firearm for
protection.
>
> The drama interrupted Henry’s careful efforts to build his
business. But after removing 24 monuments in Virginia and North
Carolina, Henry, 45, has grown more comfortable with his role in
enabling a historic reckoning with social injustice across the
South. The threats haven’t let up; Henry has simply learned to
live with them.
>
> “My head’s in a different place now,” he said. “It’s like, I’m
not scared to cross the street, but I’m always going to look
both ways, right? So I’m not totally oblivious to who I am and
what I’ve done, but I’m just not letting fear kind of drive what
I do.”
> ...
> He had come to understand that those statues — especially Lee
— were like religious objects to their defenders. They had stood
more than a century as totems of a powerful mythology: that
slavery was somehow benign, that Southerners were the noble
victims of Northern aggression, that things were better when
White people presided over an orderly world. The Lost Cause.
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This is why the statues must be toppled.
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> As the crane lowered the statue to the ground, Henry was awed
by the size of the thing. The crowd surged forward; someone said
they wanted to urinate on it. Henry hollered for people to stay
back.
>
> Then he noticed one African American woman looking at him with
an expression of utter disgust. Henry said he felt confused;
wasn’t she happy at what he had just done?
>
> “She was like, ‘Why are you showing so much care to the
statue? Just drop it. Just let it go. Just kick it over. Nobody
cared about George Floyd, but you care about this statue?’”
--- End Quote ---
Someone gets it!
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> The statue was hoisted off its pedestal in less than an hour
after 131 years of towering over Richmond’s grandest street.
Henry’s mother — Freda Thornton, who now lives in South Carolina
— ran through the security barricade and surprised her weeping
son with a big hug.
>
> “I just kind of held him for a minute, just to let him get
himself together,” Thornton remembered. “I told him, ‘You did
it, and God’s favor protected you and it’s over.’ I said, ‘It’s
over, the work is completed now.’”
--- End Quote ---
Actually, the work is completed only when the colonialist
bloodlines are eliminated. Removing statues is merely the
warmup.
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> Henry’s mission as the man who finally drove the Confederates
out of Richmond was nearly complete. He had a brief, blunt
message that morning for the chilly workers as they prepared to
do the unusual work that has become so familiar.
>
> “It’s the last one,” he told them. “Let’s do it right and get
out of here.”
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Yes, but the Confederates are not statues, but bloodlines.
Again, removing statues is merely the warmup.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 15, 2023, 4:20 pm
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Another success (reported by our enemies):
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/another-dead-white-male-erased-rice-university-s-founder-will-have-statue-and-ashes-removed-because-he-owned-slaves
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>
HTML https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/59404/VDARE-kersey-rice-statue.jpg
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#Post#: 18334--------------------------------------------------
Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 9, 2023, 3:24 pm
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Activism continues:
HTML https://nypost.com/2023/03/07/nypd-shows-footage-of-vandals-who-scrawled-murderer-across-christopher-columbus-statue/
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> Police on Monday released images and a video of the two
vandals who allegedly scrawled the word “murderer” in red spray
paint across the statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park
last month.
>
> Surveillance footage shows the destructive duo climb over
barricades protecting the statue of the Italian explorer — with
spray cans in tow — on Feb. 26.
>
> A woman in a bright orange coat painted over the “Columbus”
text with the “murderer” accusation, according to the video.
>
> Her partner in crime, dressed in all black, climbs onto the
statue and nearly slips off while covering it in red paint, the
footage shows.
>
> The graffiti artists also spray-painted “Give us our land
back” on the bronze and granite sculpture.
>
> Statues of historical figures have come under attack across
the country in recent years, as critics have pointed out or
unearthed truths about many of the leaders.
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Thank you!
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 12, 2023, 8:58 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/statues-old-white-men-may-200000496.html
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> Statues of “old white men” such as the Duke of Wellington and
Admiral Lord Nelson could be hidden or destroyed to create the
“right historical narrative”, according to Welsh government
guidance.
> ...
> It claims that existing monuments “can be offensive to people
today who see them in a different light”, including as
“aggressors who conquered peoples to expand the British Empire”.
> ...
> To “dispel” this narrative, and end the “perpetuation of
racist colonial myths about white superiority”, potentially
offensive older monuments can be “re-evaluated” with the help of
public and expert consultation.
>
> However, officials note that the “relative preponderance of
white historians over other identities can skew understanding”.
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Hence the need also for:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/
Continuing:
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> The advice follows a 2021 government-backed “audit of
commemoration” in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, which
covered hundreds of statues, plaques, buildings and street names
linked to “the slave trade and British Empire”.
>
> It named Welsh explorer Henry Morton Stanley as among figures
honoured with a statue who committed “crimes against black
people”, while the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Lord Nelson
were among the memorialised deemed to have “opposed abolition”.
--- End Quote ---
If BLM says something should be destroyed and anyone else says
it should not, listen to BLM! (On the other hand, there are
likely to be things that BLM does not demand to be destroyed yet
which should actually still be destroyed. But we are happy to
let BLM have all its demands satisfied before we begin ours.)
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/blm/
Continuing:
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> Andrew RT Davies, the leader of the Welsh Conservatives, has
raised concerns that the guidance represents an “Orwellian”
attempt to have public bodies rewrite history.
> ...
> “Labour have been captured by a hard-Left, anti-British mob
who want nothing more than to topple our statues, tear up the
works of classic authors and cancel our great orators, all in
the name of virtue signalling.
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Davies also looks like what we would expect:
[img]
HTML https://www.spectator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GettyImages-654426198.jpg?w=1024[/img]
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> “We should be punishing woke vandals for denigrating our
history and damaging our monuments, not kowtowing to them by
‘concealing statues’ as this document suggests.”
--- End Quote ---
Colonial-era British history is being denigrated because of how
the British colonialists behaved during the colonial era. Anyone
today who defends them is no better than they were.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 21, 2023, 6:13 pm
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Another success:
HTML https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/gen-schuyler-statue-taken-albany-city-hall-17845187.php
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> ALBANY — A statue of Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler outside City
Hall is set to come down in a matter of weeks, city officials
confirmed Friday.
> ...
> "As a man heavily invested in the institution of enslavement
YALI teens maintained that he was able to accomplish what he is
remembered for because he depended upon those enslaved to him to
carry out those tasks that freed him up to focus on other
matters," the report states. "His accomplishments were possible
because he stood on the shoulders of those who were enslaved to
him."
> ...
> The decision to remove the statue follows a unanimous vote in
December by the Albany City Board of Education to rename the
Philip J. Schuyler Achievement Academy as Roots Academy at West
Hill, following growing frustrations by students and staff with
keeping Schuyler's name.
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 27, 2023, 5:23 pm
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Good work:
HTML https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/absolutely-disgusted-sydney-statue-defaced-in-anzac-day-protest-20230425-p5d32t.html
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> A community in Sydney’s north-west is angry after a statue was
defaced with red paint ahead of a local Anzac Day dawn service.
>
> The Lachlan Macquarie statue in Windsor’s McQuade Park was
doused in red paint and handprints alongside the phrases “here
stands a mass murderer who ordered the genocide” and “no pride
in genocide”.
> ...
> Monument Australia, an organisation that records monuments
throughout Australia, states on its website the statue was
commissioned during the bicentenary celebrations in 1994 of
European settlement in the Hawkesbury.
>
> “There is controversy around Macquarie’s treatment of
Indigenous people,” the website states.
>
> “In April 1816, Macquarie ordered soldiers under his command
to kill or capture any Aboriginal people they encountered during
a military operation aimed at creating a sense of terror. At
least 14 men, women and children were brutally killed, some
shot, others driven over a cliff.”
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appin,_New_South_Wales#The_Appin_Massacre
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> From 1815, European colonisation expanded out from the Sydney
region at a greater pace. To the south-west, the ongoing
Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars between the colonists and the
resident Darug and Gandangara people flared. In March 1816, a
punitive expedition of a group of settlers was surprised and
ambushed at Silverdale by a group of Aboriginal people armed
with muskets and spears; four settlers were killed. Governor
Lachlan Macquarie ordered an armed reprisal "to inflict
exemplary and severe punishment on the mountain tribes...to
strike them with terror...clearing the country of them
entirely."
> ...
> Wallis and his detachment returned to Sydney on 4 May where
Governor Macquarie praised Wallis for acting "perfectly in
conformity to the instructions I had furnished them." Wallis was
rewarded with fifteen gallons of rum and was appointed as
commandant and magistrate of the penal colony at Newcastle.[8]
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Nor was the above the only time it was OK for Macquarie to be
"white":
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
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> Macquarie arrived with his regiment at Bombay in August 1788
where he was stationed for two years. He saw active service from
1790 to 1792 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War, under General
Abercromby, participating in the Capture of Cannanore and the
1792 Siege of Seringapatam.[11] He was promoted to Major of
Brigade of troops on the Malabar Coast in August 1793[12] and
became a Freemason that same year at Bombay.[13] In September
1793 Macquarie married Jane Jarvis, daughter of the late Chief
Justice of Antigua, Thomas Jarvis, who had owned slave
plantations there.[14]
> ...
> n May 1797, Macquarie led troops during the disastrous
campaign against the rebel forces of Pazhassi Raja in the
jungles around Manantheri. Employing guerilla tactics, Pazhassi
inflicted sizable casualties on the 77th, killing a number of
officers with Macquarie himself being wounded in the foot. The
British torched all the villages in the district
> ...
> He participated in front-line combat during the Fourth
Anglo-Mysore War against the forces of Tipu Sultan, helping
defeat them first at the Battle of Seedaseer and then at the
siege and storming of Tipu's palace at Srirangapatna in 1799. He
described the "glorious" aftermath where the bodies of Tipu and
his people "lay in such immense Heaps on the Ramparts...as well
as in different Parts of the Town that no regular account of
them could be taken". Macquarie received £1,300 in prize money
after the city was looted.[11]
>
> In 1800, Macquarie was part of the British entourage headed by
Governor Duncan that forced Mir Nasiruddin Khan of Surat to sign
a treaty with the East India Company dictating the handover of
that province to Company rule.[11]
> ...
> Macquarie was a great sponsor of British exploration in the
colony. He himself participated in a number of expeditions
around the Sydney Basin and to other regions including Jervis
Bay, Port Stephens, the Hunter River, Bathurst and Van Diemen's
Land. He invariably named the landmarks and new settlements he
came across after himself, his wife or members of the British
aristocracy.[11]
> ...
> in January 1815 he opened the Parramatta Native Institution
for the education of Aboriginal children. Around forty
Aboriginal children, some of whom were 'decoyed away' from their
parents and others taken during frontier conflict, became
students and were taught in the British tradition by William and
Elizabeth Shelley.
> ...
> Macquarie also developed a strategy of rewarding Aboriginals
who assisted the British by declaring them 'chiefs of their
tribe' and presenting them with a brass breast-plate (known as a
gorget) engraved with their name and title even though it often
did not reflect their actual clan status.[55]
> ...
> Hostilities continued for most of the rest of 1816 with
Macquarie proclaiming no Aborigines were allowed into the
settled areas without a passport
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 6, 2023, 5:12 pm
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Our enemies report:
HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2023/07/03/france-muslims-take-time-out-of-their-rioting-to-vandalize-holocaust-memorial/
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> According to a video from Twitter account ‘Observatory of
Decolonialism’, protesters said they were going to start another
Holocaust. They wrote on the memorial: “We are going to make a
Shoah”.
>
> Stores and restaurants run by Jews were also set on fire in
Sarcelles, Radio Shalom reported.
--- End Quote ---
:)
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: ShotsFired
Date: September 29, 2023, 12:07 am
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Man shot and wounded at New Mexico protest over installation of
Spanish conquistador statue
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> (29 Sep 2023) A suspect was taken into custody after allegedly
shooting and wounding a man at a protest Thursday in Española
where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish
conquistador Juan de Oñate, authorities said. (Sept. 28)
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxhkcO60NSQ
Comments:
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> Why would anybody put up a statue of a Spanish Conquistador
except to stir up racial tensions?
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> A statue of a genocidal monster. Yeah, that won't make anyone
mad...
> Smh
> Maybe you can put up one of General Custer next...
> Smh
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> This is America act like animals south of the border but not
here
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> It's "America" and you're supporting a Spanish Conquistador?
Sounds pretty un-American to me...
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 27, 2023, 5:06 pm
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Morale-lifting tweet of the day:
HTML https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1717632621109231903<br
/>(video at link)
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> Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a
2,250-degree furnace.
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:)
Enemy reaction:
[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9dqVT6XMAAlD6i?format=jpg&name=medium[/img]
Why should we not?
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Re: Statue decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 22, 2023, 7:44 pm
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Our enemies report:
HTML https://www.amren.com/commentary/2023/12/an-end-to-reconciliation/
--- Quote ---
> After initially issuing an injunction halting the removal of
the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery,
black judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. has ruled against the group
Defend Arlington so that the memorial could be disassembled.
> ...
>
HTML https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Memorial.jpg
> Monument to Confederate Dead, Arlington National Cemetery,
photo by Theodor Horydczak (Credit Image: © Circa Images/JT
Vintage via ZUMA Press Wire)
--- End Quote ---
Note:
--- Quote ---
> Sculptor Moses Ezekiel
> ...
> The sculptor was Jewish and had been the first Jewish cadet at
the Virginia Military Institute.
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
What our enemies infer from the statue removal:
--- Quote ---
> Destroying the memorial is an implicit suggestion that
reconciliation was a mistake. The white South should have been
punished more.
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Yes, they should have been punished as much as possible, just as
a true American of that era had recommended:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/thaddeus-stevens/
--- Quote ---
> From the beginning, Stevens wanted all slaves freed, armed,
and turned against their masters: “The slaves ought to be
incited to insurrection and give the rebels a taste of real
civil war.”
> ...
> “the enrollment of negroes in the military service in such
states as South Carolina and Georgia would, of course, mean
nothing else than a determination to exterminate the white
population in those states.”
> ...
> Stevens wanted “to inflict condign punishment on the rebel
belligerents” and to treat the Confederate states as conquered
territory, unprotected by the Constitution, subjected only to
the laws of war.
--- End Quote ---
'
From the comments:
--- Quote ---
> A similarly "controversial" statue is that of Oliver Cromwell,
erected in 1899 outside the House of Commons. Some MPs want the
statue removed and melted down!
>
> The piece was paid for by the Countess of Rosebery, the sole
heir to the Rothschild's family fortune.
> ...
>
HTML https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/M7QS4AE4YSI4267STZKQMJ2SDI.jpg
--- End Quote ---
Again:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg7593/?topicseen#msg7593
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