Beheaded Confederate statue is pulled down — and lands on protester's head,

[Robert59]

Local Black Lives Matter president told a reporter part of the victim's skull was visible

After demonstrators beheaded four Confederate statues in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Wednesday night, they pulled one of the statues down using a tow rope, the Virginian-Pilot reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/confe...eferral&utm_source=mixi&utm_campaign=theblaze

 

[AnnieA]

Confederate statues belong in privately owned museums with the exception of those that are located at actual historic battle sites or at government facilities where the person who served as a Confederate soldier held other roles. The generic "remembering our glorious dead" Confederate statues at courthouses all over the South need new privately owned homes.

 

[Manatee]

Sounds like the "protester" outsmarted himself.

 

[jujube]

Oh, he'll be suing someone shortly. Because, because, because, y'know, it WASN'T HIS FAULT...….

 

[Rosemarie]

Oh, he'll be suing someone shortly. Because, because, because, y'know, it WASN'T HIS FAULT...….

Somehow he'll find a way to convince the courts that he was a victim.

 

[Fyrefox]

In the now obscure world of Al Capp's L'il Abner, let's pause to remember General Jubilation T. Cornpone, hero of Cornpone's Rout, Cornpone's Defeat, and Cornpone's Disaster. Reputed to be "strong as an ox and almost as bright," Cornpone's military incompetence hastened the end of the American Civil War. The "man who knew no fear" had a statue which stood in the tourist attraction town of Dogpatch for a quarter of a century. He's remembered for being "first in war, first in peace, and first to holler, 'I quit!'"

 

[Lewkat]

Somehow he'll find a way to convince the courts that he was a victim.

Jury won't buy it. If it gets that far.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I know the US Civil War was fought over slavery. If you fought with the Confederacy in that, war, you fought to maintain slavery. You may have fought bravely, but it was a wrong cause. And I know somebody is going to bring up "state's rights" as the cause of the war. That's true, some states wanted the right to keep slaves.

 

[AnnieA]

I know the US Civil War was fought over slavery. If you fought with the Confederacy in that, war, you fought to maintain slavery. You may have fought bravely, but it was a wrong cause. And I know somebody is going to bring up "state's rights" as the cause of the war. That's true, some states wanted the right to keep slaves.

Most sensible people understand that.

Bear in mind, though, that not all who fought for the Confederacy wanted to; a good many poorer whites that didn't own slaves were conscripted at gunpoint. But some of their descendants still commemorate their service. I do genealogy contract work and have had several clients ask me to research an ancestor's service. To this day, some get upset when I find documentation stating that their ancestor was conscripted.

 

[Judycat]

Ouch!

 

[Been There]

YAY!!! Some good news for a change.

 

[rgp]

Isn't that what they call karma ? ..........

 

[Keesha]

Crazy crazy people!

 

[Keesha]

To this day, some get upset when I find documentation stating that their ancestor was conscripted.

I had to look conscripted up to understand what it meant. That seems perfectly understandable. I can’t imagine what that would be like.

 

[AnnieA]

I had to look conscripted up to understand what it meant. That seems perfectly understandable. I can’t imagine what that would be like.

Oh, girl! They're not upset because of how horribly their ancestor was treated. They're upset because they can't brag about their Confederate officer ancestor when they find out he was just a conscripted private. There are still social organizations for descendants of Confederate soldiers ...United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans.

My great-aunt had a miniature Civil War photo of my ggg grandfather. When some of my relatives started doing genealogy research in the 80s, they had it enlarged and learned he was in a Union uniform, not Confederate like she'd always thought. She was so scandalized that she quit helping them with family history because she said there was no telling what else they were going to turn up. I learned later that that branch of the family--although residing in Mississippi--were strongly abolitionist small scale farmers from Kentucky which was a border state politically. Several went back to fight on the Union side.

 

[JaniceM]

I know the US Civil War was fought over slavery. If you fought with the Confederacy in that, war, you fought to maintain slavery. You may have fought bravely, but it was a wrong cause. And I know somebody is going to bring up "state's rights" as the cause of the war. That's true, some states wanted the right to keep slaves.

As occasionally happens, a few months ago I watched a movie that was made decades ago: Mississippi Burning. One of the individuals remarked (approximate quote) 'We don't need those outsiders coming here and telling us how to live!' Well. The south is not going to 'rise again.' And it's past time individuals stopped blabbering about "states'" rights, and started taking "One Nation, indivisible" seriously.

Note: this post is not meant to be offensive to anyone who lives in or is from the southern part of the U.S.

 

[Lewkat]

Confederate statues were not sculpted nor erected by slaves, why pull them down now? Many edifices and statues were built by slaves or at least made by them, yet still stand today. Case in point: