(08-14-2017, 04:07 PM)FBT Wrote:

(08-14-2017, 12:57 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Please note there's a local group called Take Em Down Jax who wants to remove statues and rename buildings, schools, bridges, etc., here in Jacksonville.  

I think we should go the other way and find homes here for all the statues taken down in other cities.  I wouldn't mind a giant bronze statue in my back yard.  Those things last longer than the stuff from Home Depot, and it's less grass I have to mow.

The president of the city council and the mayor are both pandering sympathizers, so you can rest assured this movement is going to create an issue here.

This getting beyond rediculous (as if it isn't already).

Should the city be renamed since it's named after Andrew Jackson (a slave owner)?

Should the Hart Bridge be renamed since it's named after Isaiah Hart, a plantation and slave owner?

Perhaps the St. Johns River, Saint Augustine and Ribalt High School should be renamed since the history of them comes from Catholicism.  After all, it might "offend" people of no faith or other religions.

My point is that I could go on-and-on regarding things that are named here in the Jacksonville area as well as throughout Florida that could possibly be deemed "offensive" by a vast minority of people.  Monuments of past Confederate Generals are there NOT because they were once slave owners, but because of how they were instrumental in developing our country to what it is.  Quite frankly, in some aspects veterans of the Confederate Army are considered U.S. Veterans and deserve the same respect as all other Veterans.

The "big story" about what happened this weekend is not about what actually happened, it's all about how President Trump supposedly "gave white supremacists  a pass" or "didn't use strong enough language against them".  Here is what he said.

Quote:"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides," Trump said during a short statement from his private golf club in New Jersey. "It has been going on for a long time in our country -- not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. It has been going on for a long, long time. It has no place in America."

Apparently that wasn't good enough for the left wing media.  He didn't specifically call out any right-wing hate groups.

Come on... really?

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