Flashback: FDR unveiled Robert E. Lee statue without controversy in 1936

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/fro...-robert-e-lee-statue-without-controversy-1936

It must have pained the uber liberals at the dallas morning news to print this story but to their credit they told the truth for a change

 

This has been wall to wall news here for weeks. Dallas City Council and mayor announced that they would take a look at this since since all of the black city council members started stirring up protests. Since then, the mayor and city council fast tracked the removal of the statue. They had a crane on site to remove the statue before the city council voted to remove it. The crane was too small. Before they could get another crane on site, someone tied up the removal in court. After that was cleared in record time, the city council sent a bigger crane to the site before dawn the other day. The crane was involved in a fatality accident on the way to the park and is on hold. The cost to remove the statue was originally almost $500k, but that cost has now risen considerably. Nobody has told the public what they will do with the statue and what it will cost the tax payers. The statue currently has armed police guard 24/7. This is all during police salary and pension issues and school district problems, where that $500k+ would come in handy. This is why I no longer live in Dallas County.

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/vis...dered-fate-confederate-statue-dallas-lee-park

 

Lost Cause of the Confederacy, is right.

 

Robert E Lee might have made a good statue, but its time has come and gone. Nobody wants civil war monuments anymore. People are suddenly getting triggered bad, left and right, by them, just now, within the past 6 months. Time to erase our history for the delicate snowflakes who just now found their cause... and the rest of us need to walk on eggshells around them.

 

I killed the thread.

 

Our tax dollars at work destroying our shared history for self-serving political gain based on selective outrage.

What's not to love?

 

It's a nothingburger being eaten by the far right. Real America does not care.

 

Lol, oh you guys , need a safe space because statues scare you and make you walk on egg shells . Oh boy.

 

This is the same group of clowns who wanted to rename Industrial Blvd because it ran next to the Trinity River that they want to develop into a artsy-craftsy lib hangout

So they held a contest to pick a new name and Ceasar Chavez got the most votes

That surprised the clueless city fathers and mothers and they promptly took the offer off the table

Dallas used to have outstanding leadership but not anymore

 

You mean real lib la la land

Which cares enough to waste $1 million dollars on removing the statue

Leave the statue where it is

 

history is not destroyed by removing the statues from the pubic square to a museum, they just wont be the beacon of white supremacist anymore to these locations

we do not need monuments of white men whipping slaves in the public square not to forget that do we

the losers don't keep statues up, we tore down Sadam's statues, do you think that will make people forget and it should of been left up?

time for the confederates to get over it, they lost, time to stop spending our tax dollars maintaining and defending this nonsense

 

Meaning Real America, not the la la land in which you roam.

 

it costs hardly anything to remove a statue, now security to keep the employees safe from crazy conservatives maybe a little more, but 1 million, yeah right

if it's gonna cost 1 million, lets just hire a moving crew to take them to the dump, would not want to waste 1 million dollars over them now would we

let them take care of it then....

"Anonymous donor to pay for removal of Confederate statues"

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/09/anonymous_donor_to_pay_for_rem.html

"It will cost an estimated $144,000 to remove and transport the statues of Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis, as well as a monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, according to the letter. The donor agreed to pay for the entire operation."

 

We should be more like the Founding Fathers and leave up all the statues to King George and other symbols of the British monarchy.

Wait no, those ******n wig, Capri pants, and high heels wearing snowflakes tore those statues down!

 

Liberals are the ones blowing $1 million tax dollars on a statue

 

Wah!

 

So far Dallas has spent $650,000 and General Lee is still there.

 

yep, and the longer they stay the more it will cost tax payers, time to remove them

time to stop wasting tax payer dollars defending and maintaining them

 

So you are an FDR fan now eh?

 

Now people want a civil America so we need to get rid of those statues

 

Stop attacking American history

 

This shouldn't surprise you I mean it's texas after all

 

^^Pavlonian

 

I always have been

He was a great president even if he didn't end the Great Depression with top down economics

 

The statues are very civil

It is guilt-ridden whtie liberals and bitter black racists who are being uncivil