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The statue of Civil War Admiral Raphael Semmes has been removed from its longstanding place in downtown Mobile.
The statue was removed overnight, and residents noticed it gone early Friday morning.
Mitchell
Bond, 20, of Mobile was charged with defacing a monument, which is a
Class A misdemeanor, after messages were spray painted on the base of
the statue. The city removed those painted messages Tuesday.
Semmes was an officer in the Confederate navy. He commanded the CSS Alabama.
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Texas Ranger statue removed from Dallas Texas also. One Riot,
ReplyDeleteOne Ranger. We sure could use One Ranger now.
Are the Texas Rangers still active? Chuck Norris use to play in
Walker Texas Ranger.
These people are extremely sick.
Furious, here.
DeleteSad times. Robert E. Lee statue also coming down in VA., and all over the South. Confederate Memorials are the latest "white privilege" that can not be allowed by our facist overlords.
ReplyDeleteWe are no longer allowed to honor our dead ancestors.
Only a very small percentage of the people comprising the Confederate States of America actually owned slaves.
Was slavery wrong? Absolutely.
I feel that just as the Blood of Christ was the price of forgiveness for our sins, the Blood spilled during the Civil War was the price paid for forgiveness of slavery.
That debt was paid 155 years ago, at a terrible cost to the South. There was no Marshall Plan for the South after the War. It took the South over 100 years to catch up to the economic average of the rest of the country.
Many of the concerns of the Southern people that led to the Civil War have become facts: the growth of the Federal Leviathan, high taxation rates, loss of individual freedom, etc.
The monuments to our dead serve as reminders as to what terrible costs will be paid when our national disagreements are settled not by the ballot box, by politicians and compromises, but rather with warfare.
Leave us to honor our dead in peace.
Or, if you sow the wind, be prepared to reap the whirlwind.
Leave us to honor our dead in peace.
DeleteOr, if you sow the wind, be prepared to reap the whirlwind.
Indeed.
One statue they won't take down and we know which one that is.
ReplyDeleteYes, three guesses and the first two don't count.......
DeleteIf a person asked the average black protester why taking down the Semmes monument was important I know there would not be one intelligible response.
ReplyDeleteWithout a doubt in any sane mind.
DeleteToo funny and very appropriate:
ReplyDeletehttps://meaww.com/black-lives-matter-virginia-protester-critical-injury-confederate-statue-fell-on-head-chris-green
I saw that and Hilarious!:)
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