In Durham, NC a crowed pulled down a confederate statue in front of a court house.     Love it.     Hope the same thing is done to all those remaining in the rest of the country.    It is a symbol of slavery, racism, bigotry and white supremacy.

I really wanted it that way instead of calling his real get away place for cheating and conducting private business:

Nearly 700,000 thousand Americans died in the civil war. More than half we're confederate. Monuments were constructed for both sides honoring those who fought and died. What a disgrace tearing down a monument that stood for decades.

You can that monument that was uprooted in Durham, NC to your home and worship.    For the rest of us, it is good riddance, a symbol of KKK, racism, slavery, bigotry and as the Clown said yesterday represents "criminals, thugs and racists'.

...The REAL problem is that these monuments to the confederate cause represent a racist mindset that has allowed hate filled prejudice to continue in America, the people that worship these idols don't deserve the respect of other Americans.

deflections!  Very weak diversion.  These racists simply hide behind empty rhetoric so their bigotry is not the focus of their many hate symbols, when it SHOULD be!

It offends liberals. Liberals can no longer feel offended about anything at anytime. It is why they riot and force right wingers to cancel speeches on campuses. It's why they invented "safe spaces."

back away from that bloody mary, please!!  Isn't it kind of early to be going on a binge?

...No Jack it is you who it seams cannot even comprehend the point, while it is true that removing these monuments to racism & slavery will not end those ideas by a small but vocal segment of our society the fact that the monuments are on public property suggests that we as Americans support prejudicial ideas that these monuments stand for, and certainly we don't. If the supporters of the ideas of monuments wish they may build them on their own private property.

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It ain't going to happen.     We have all these racist confederate statues around the country to be pulled down first.    Now thanks to Durham, NC the toppling will accelerate.

Washington owned slaves, Washington stole land from Native Americans.  
  Soon after Washington's memory is erased from our history books, Lincoln monument will come down next.

Should it come down? Why or why not?

trying to figure out which side you're on?

When a community votes to erect a monument to the Confederacy, I believe that's their right, just as it is when they vote to remove the same. There's a big difference between what happen in New Orleans and Charlottesville vs. Durham. What happened in Durham is destruction of public property, and those having done so should be prosecuted, and if they truly believe in the righteousness in what they did, they should accept the punishment. I would hope, that communities would rid themselves of monuments to traitors to their country, but that's not my call, it's theirs.

...in Germany to honor the 4.3 million German soldiers who fought and died in WWII.  What a disgrace, right?

Germans are known across the globe as  easily led while falling hook line and sinker for hateful propaganda, eerily  similar to you and fake news CNN.    
     
    Germany has the right to outlaw the swastika and  nazi salute with or without my approval.  
    Whether their anti swastika laws  has helped quell the hatred for Jews deep in many Germans heart, I don't believe  so, however  I am not an authority on Germany  or hate monger  memorabilia.  
   
 http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/antisemitic-attacks-in-germany-rise-by-200-per-cent-in-one-year-statistics-show-a3407401.html
       
    If it was up to me and legal  I'd have no problem arresting and investigating the past of  anyone in America sporting a swastika or saluting Hitler's memory.    
       
  To choose a Democrat President in the last two hundred years who  was relatively good for the USA and the World  
I vote for JFK.    
  To choose the worst Democrat President with foreign policy and World peace in my lifetime, I vote for Obama.    

The graves of all Confederate soldiers should be  bulldozed with the remains and tombstones burned, pulverized and destroyed. After all, each grave is an individual monument to that vile and racist soldier.  There should be no cemeteries for any Confederate soldiers.

than I trust the Russians.  Only because there are American soldiers stationed in Germany.  

I want them to start with your house first!

Agree with your first point.

So pointing at black people who voted for scumbag Trump is foolish.
Since it was white people that put this racist asshole in the White House.

Excusing  the violent alt Left- Antifa  or excusing  white supremacists will only  encourage  more violence in the future, exactly what the  drive by media is hoping for.
   
 President Trump is correct, both sides are guilty of inciting mayhem in Charlottesville .
 
  Both sides were culpable for  the tragic deaths in Charlottesville.
     
  Antifa and  Alt left came to Charlottesville, specifically to start a violent confrontation with dough boys chanting Nazi slogans.

CNN calls out the scumbag bullshit.
I can understand why Trump and his cult hate it.
They expose the lies pushed by all of his supporters too.

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If statues and flags are a cause for concern, then history books and plantations must be burned as well.

This is what happens listening to lies and being brainwashed by Trump.

...well Jack George Washington lived & died more than 100 years before people in America realized that slavery was wrong, & Washington along with the other signers of the declaration of independence was instrumental in the birth of our nation. Can you name any positive contributions to America by general Robert E Lee or any of the confederate generals that have been memorialized by any of these statues ?  Of course you can't & certainly you already know the fact of every thing stated in this post, so what was the purpose of your post trying to drag George Washington into this discussion other than diversion ?

It might have taken you white people another hundred years to figure it out, but I think the slaves themselves knew slavery was wrong a long time before Washington or Jefferson.

...Talk about creating FAKE NEWS quad is the undisputed king, quad if you want to divert attention from the thread subject at least provide some documentation other than your own prejudiced words.

MANY Americans who signed the Declaration and approved the Constitution KNEW slavery was wrong.  Here's part of an article from ushistory.org:
"To modern eyes, the most stunning and disturbing constitutional compromise by the delegates was over the issue of slavery. Some delegates considered slavery an evil institution and GEORGE MASON of Virginia even suggested that the trans-Atlantic slave trade be made illegal by the new national rules. Delegates from South Carolina and Georgia where slavery was expanding rapidly in the late-18th century angrily opposed this limitation. If any limitations to slavery were proposed in the national framework, then they would leave the convention and oppose its proposed new plan for a stronger central government. Their fierce opposition allowed no room for compromise and as a result the issue of slavery was treated as a narrowly political, rather than a moral, question.

I think it's a tribute to the United States that these statues were ever allowed to be erected in the first place. How often are the vanquished parties allowed to erect statues of their heroes?  

Francis Scott Key owned slaves....draw your own conclusion about what we should do.................

So this issue is not going away with the current garbage in the White House.

You are the one who posted "your Messiah just praised all those assholes on Friday night who were flying Nazi flags and chanting Nazi slogans."

the star spangled banner because Francis Scott Key owned slaves to appease sensitive liberals?  The answer is NO. Just like we should not drop confederate flags and monuments. Whether  you like it or not, it's part of OUR history.

"....the land of the free and the home of the brave" written by Francis Scott key, a slaveholder.  But since it was the "prevailing social order" it was ok?  Then I guess all Americans are forgiven for slavery?