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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 19, 2020, 11:06 pm
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It's happening!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCqSFPGrXw
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 24, 2020, 10:33 pm
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Christmas victories:
HTML https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_486698fc-456b-11eb-b7c8-57bde572d9f2.html
[quote]The bronze statue of Edward Douglass White Jr., until
recently the only Louisianan ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme
Court but one who fought for the Confederacy and upheld racial
segregation laws, disappeared Wednesday from its pedestal on the
steps of the state Supreme Court building in New Orleans.
...
White, a Louisiana native who died in 1921, fought as a teenager
for the South in the Civil War and afterward took part in the
Battle of Liberty Place, an armed White supremacist uprising
that in 1874 briefly wrested control of New Orleans from the
Reconstruction-era government. His tenure on the U.S. Supreme
Court, from 1894 until his death, saw him vote in the majority
in Plessy v. Ferguson and several other infamous decisions
upholding Jim Crow racial segregation and stripping Black
Americans of civil rights.
...
White grew up in a prominent Thibodaux family of slaveholding
sugar planters. His father and namesake, Edward Douglass White
Sr., was governor of Louisiana from 1835 to 1839 and served nine
years in Congress.
...
"We’re happy to see that it's no longer in public view but also
disappointed they would have the temerity to put it inside to
try to satisfy those who want to celebrate its White supremacist
history," said Malcolm Suber, one of the leaders of the activist
group Take 'Em Down NOLA. "We don’t think he should be honored
in any kind of way, so we will continue our fight."
...
A separate statue of White in the U.S. Capitol in Washington
also has also been slated for possible removal. In July, the
House of Representatives voted by a wide margin to boot statues
and busts of numerous prominent Confederates and other
proponents of slavery — a list that included White, although the
details of his military service are hazy — from the
building.[/quote]
I like Suber's attitude.
And then there's this:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-supreme-court-remove-portrait-143352155.html
[quote]The North Carolina Supreme Court has announced plans to
remove the portrait of Thomas Ruffin, a former chief justice who
was a slave owner, from one of its walls.
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Ruffin, who owned slaves in the 1800s and served on the North
Carolina Supreme Court from 1829 to 1852, firmly believed owners
held absolute power over those whom they enslaved. He once wrote
slave owners should not be convicted of assault or battery
against their human property.
...
Earlier this year, a smaller portrait of Ruffin was removed from
another courthouse, as was his statue from the entrance of the
state’s Court of Appeals building, which was once named after
him.
Ruffin has been described as “particularly brutal in his
ownership of slaves.” During his time serving on the North
Carolina high court, he overturned the conviction of a slave
owner named John Mann, who shot a female slave after she refused
his orders.
According to the North Carolina Administrative Office of the
Courts, “In that case, in which an enslaved woman had been shot
in the back after fleeing a brutal whipping, Ruffin rejected the
notion that a slave owner could be guilty of assault or battery
of an enslaved person, writing, ‘The power of the master must be
absolute to render the submission of the slave perfect … This
discipline belongs to the state of slavery.’”[/quote]
Destroying Homo Hubris is what Christmas should be about:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPyjZoHdVWQ
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 12, 2021, 2:21 am
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Another small victory:
HTML https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/01/massachusetts-lawmakers-pass-bill-that-takes-steps-to-change-state-seal-and-motto-following-decades-of-protests-from-indigenous-activists.html
[quote]After years of protests and testimony from Native
American residents, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a bill in the
final minutes of the legislative session that takes a step
toward changing the state seal and motto.
...
In its current form, the state seal shows a hand holding the
sword over the head of a Native American with the Latin motto
the translates to, “by the sword we seek peace.” The sword
symbolizes Myles Standish, an English militia leader in the
1600s who attacked Native American settlements.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 13, 2021, 10:18 pm
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A reminder of the importance of statues for morale:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-troops-defending-us-capitol-172136364.html
[quote]Black troops defending the US Capitol from pro-Trump
rioters took a moment to snap a photo with Rosa Parks' statue
[img]
HTML https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/BpssEN7qmQgnPzCxqqelxA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTM1Mi41/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Y3nAE.vihC8uID0jyblG3w--~B/aD01MDA7dz0xMDAwO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/https://media.zenfs.com/en/business_insider_articles_888/6f14dbf744f2069a407d263c966777fc[/img]
[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 20, 2021, 10:53 pm
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Our enemies are far from defeated:
HTML https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/statues-racism-colonialism-protection-b1788509.html
[quote]The government plans on introducing new legal protections
for statues linked to colonialism and racism, with a minister
saying the UK should not try to edit or censor its history.
Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, said decisions to
take down heritage assets in England will need both planning
permission and a consultation with local communities to go
ahead.[/quote]
We must not be deterred. The fact that they see such importance
in preserving the statues is the best confirmation we need about
why they must be toppled.
More from our enemies:
HTML https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2021/01/war-on-past-hamilton-could-remove-canadas-oldest-john-macdonald-statue.html
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: guest5 Date: January 20, 2021, 11:34 pm
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How did we miss this one? (Or did I miss it in the comments?)
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Albert_Pike_Memorial_vandalism_2.jpg/1280px-Albert_Pike_Memorial_vandalism_2.jpg
[quote]Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an
American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and
prominent member of the Freemasons who served as an associate
justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1864 until the
surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department in May 1865.
Before his appointment, Pike was a senior officer of the
Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian
Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil
War. [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pike
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 21, 2021, 11:12 pm
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Another one down!
HTML https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/gwinnett-commissioners-vote-to-remove-controversial-confederate-monument-put-it-in-storage/article_5a602cd6-5a23-11eb-8bfc-33ca21836542.html
[quote]A controversial Confederate monument that has stood on
the grounds of the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse for nearly 30
years is coming down.
County commissioners voted to remove the monument and put it in
storage — officially to ensure its preservation during a legal
battle — on Tuesday afternoon. It’s a legal maneuver to get the
monument off the Lawrenceville Square while getting around a
state law designed to protect Confederate monuments and keep
them in place by saying incidents of vandalism in the last year
have warranted steps to protect the marker.[/quote]
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Re: Monetary Wealth
By: guest5 Date: January 26, 2021, 12:54 am
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Harriet Tubman $20 Bill in the Works Under Biden Admin
[quote]The Biden admin confirmed that Harriet Tubman will be on
the $20 bill, picking up where the Obama White House left
off.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkU8-DS9Qas
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 27, 2021, 10:47 pm
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Well played!
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/virginia-lawmakers-vote-to-remove-statue-of-segregationist/2021/01/22/6a2803c6-5ccd-11eb-a849-6f9423a75ffd_story.html
[quote]RICHMOND, Va. — A panel of Virginia legislators advanced
a bill Friday to remove a statue of Harry F. Byrd Sr., a staunch
segregationist, from the state Capitol grounds.
The decision came amid a yearslong effort in history-rich
Virginia to rethink who is honored in the state’s public spaces.
Byrd, a Democrat, served as governor and U.S. senator. He ran
the state’s most powerful political machine for decades until
his death in 1966 and was considered the architect of the
state’s racist “massive resistance” policy to public school
integration.
“It is my deep belief that monuments to segregation, massive
resistance, and the subjugation of one race below another, like
this statue, serve only as a reminder to the overt and
institutional racism that has and continues to plague our
Commonwealth,” the bill’s sponsor, Del. Jay Jones, said when
introducing the measure.
...
Rita Davis, counselor to the governor, spoke on behalf of the
administration Friday.
“Had Mr. Byrd had his way, I would never have the opportunity to
be before you because I am Black,” she said. “Certain members of
the General Assembly would never be able to serve because
they’re not white.”
She said the question before the committee was “not whether we
should remove Mr. Byrd’s statue from Capitol Square, but rather,
why on earth would we keep it in Capitol Square?”
...
In an unusual twist, a similar measure to remove the Byrd statue
was filed last year by a freshman Republican lawmaker.
Republican Del. Wendell Walker introduced the bill, apparently
with the aim of needling Democrats who were pushing for the
removal of Confederate monuments, saying “what’s good for the
goose is good for the gander.”
But when met with agreement from across the aisle on removing
the statue, Walker asked that the bill be killed[/quote]
The lesson to be learned: always proudly embrace rightist
accusations that we hate Western civilization. To paraphrase
Davis, the question is not whether Western civilization should
die, but why on earth would we keep Western civilization alive?
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 30, 2021, 11:32 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/29/tributes-to-slave-traders-and-colonialists-removed-across-uk
[quote]Scores of tributes to slave traders, colonialists and
racists have been taken down or will be removed across the UK, a
Guardian investigation has found, with hundreds of others under
review by local authorities and institutions.
In what was described by historians as an “unprecedented” public
reckoning with Britain’s slavery and colonial past, an estimated
39 names – including streets, buildings and schools – and 30
statues, plaques and other memorials have been or are undergoing
changes or removal since last summer’s Black Lives Matter
protests.
...
There are also audits and reviews under way into monuments and
landmarks across the the country.
In November, the Welsh government identified 209 monuments,
buildings or street names linked with slavery. The first
minister, Mark Drakeford, said the audit was part of “a much
bigger piece of work” that would consider how the nation moves
forward.
Similar reviews have been commissioned by Glasgow city council,
which predates the Black Lives Matter protests, and by the
London mayor, Sadiq Khan, on the capital’s landmarks, and 130
Labour-led councils across the country, including the cities of
Manchester and Birmingham. The Guardian data does not yet
include the vast majority of iconographies being investigated in
these reviews.
...
“If the government is really concerned about inequality and
racism, they would be the first to say yes, let’s put these
statues in a special museum dedicated to crimes against humanity
and stop glorifying people publicly.
“But they take the opposite view. So then you have to question
everything they say about wanting a more just and equal society,
a society without racism, because it’s just hypocrisy.”[/quote]
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