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Civil Rights Icon Argues for Confederate Monuments to Remain in Place

 

BY CHRIS QUEEN AUGUST 17, 2017

 

The Left has made the removal of monuments to the Confederacy their cause du jour. The alt-right, white-nationalist rally and its ensuing violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend stemmed from the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, and in the wake of the horrific events in that town, more monuments have come down while others are sure to follow.

Stacey Abrams, a Democratic candidate for Georgia's governor, has called for the removal of the iconic Confederate memorial carving on Stone Mountain, just outside of Atlanta. A little further east, in my hometown of Covington, the county Board of Commissioners heard from a handful of citizens who want the Confederate monument at the center of the town square removed or relocated; for what it's worth, our first African-American county commission chair has said that he doesn't want our town to become another Charlottesville.

One voice from the civil rights movement has chimed in on the new trend of erasing the history of the Confederacy. Former Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador Andrew Young told reporters on Tuesday that the fight to remove Confederate monuments is not worth having. The Atlanta Journal-Constitutionquoted Young:

“I think it’s too costly to refight the Civil War,” Young said Wednesday at a press conference in which he and fellow civil rights icon C.T. Vivian endorsed Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell to  succeed Kasim Reed as the city’s next mayor. “We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together.”

Young said that he believes that civil rights movements of the past and present have been mistaken in targeting the symbols of even ugly history and should have concentrated more on fighting for issues like economic progress and education. He also reiterated the tried-and-true adage that nonviolent protests are the way to bring about genuine change.

The former mayor turned heads later on in the press conference when he said that the fight over removing the Confederate battle emblem from the Georgia state flag cost the state business and generated more bad attention than good. In the early-2000s, Democratic governor Roy Barnes spearheaded the ultimately successful attempt to change the state flag.

Young said that he believed the flap over the flag quashed a deal to bring a Mercedes-Benz plant to South Georgia. The facility would have brought 3,000 jobs to a part of the state that needed them the most. He told reporters, “I’ve always been interested more in substance over symbols."

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The civil rights icon also reiterated his belief that roiling violence like that in Charlottesville would not happen in Atlanta. In Young's words, the metropolis known as the "city too busy to hate" has too much brotherhood to generate that kind of anger. As WSB-TV reported:

"You go to any job in the city or building at any time and you will see black and white on any job in the city," he said. "That is the tradition that has thrived here when it's been threatened everywhere else in the world."

He should know. As the South has changed, Andrew Young served alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. during the civil rights movement and later represented Georgia in Congress. Of course, he led the city of Atlanta for eight years in the '80s.

I don't agree with Andrew Young on much, but I'll give credit where credit is due. Young understands that removing monuments to the past — even painful, difficult periods in history — does nothing to erase those events, but those memorials can serve as teachable moments that help shape the future. If only we could hear more reasonable voices like his from either side of the aisle.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/17/civil-rights-icon-argues-for-confederate-monuments-to-remain-in-place/

 

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“I think it’s too costly to refight the Civil War,” Young said Wednesday at a press conference in which he and fellow civil rights icon C.T. Vivian endorsed Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell to  succeed Kasim Reed as the city’s next mayor. “We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together.”

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 Young understands that removing monuments to the past — even painful, difficult periods in history — does nothing to erase those events, but those memorials can serve as teachable moments that help shape the future. If only we could hear more reasonable voices like his from either side of the aisle.

God Bless Andrew Young.

-Ed

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5 minutes ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

Civil Rights Icon Argues for Confederate Monuments to Remain in Place

 

 

 

There has been, with the Left in this country, an agenda in our universities and the media to portray the US as a racist and unjust country.  They have extended that sentiment to the very founding of our country.   The removal Civil War statues/memorials are essential to that agenda.   But will not  stop with Civil War memorials or statues.

They are going to portray this nation as "racist" and unjust from its founding.  If they can erase memorials of our nation's founding, they can erase our nation as it was founded.  Everything in our nation's founding is going to be seen as "racist" and unjust.

We are going down a very dangerous road, if we continue to allow radicals to erase our history.

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15 minutes ago, SavedByGrace1981 said:

God Bless Andrew Young.

-Ed

I agree with everything that Young said, it is not worth the fight, even if I do not understand why we have such things honoring traitors to our country. 

Now, to pick at a nit, but Young said nothing about  teachable moments or any other such things.  He said it was not not worth the fight and a wrong focus.  Nothing else.   Seems nobody can just report the news anymore, everyone has to add their own twist to it.

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5 hours ago, shiloh357 said:

There has been, with the Left in this country, an agenda in our universities and the media to portray the US as a racist and unjust country.  They have extended that sentiment to the very founding of our country.   The removal Civil War statues/memorials are essential to that agenda.   But will not  stop with Civil War memorials or statues.

They are going to portray this nation as "racist" and unjust from its founding.  If they can erase memorials of our nation's founding, they can erase our nation as it was founded.  Everything in our nation's founding is going to be seen as "racist" and unjust.

We are going down a very dangerous road, if we continue to allow radicals to erase our history.

Yes, and I think it's time to start halting the Marxist liberals right where they are.   They got overly confident with Obama in the WH....time to change that.

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On 8/18/2017 at 5:49 PM, MorningGlory said:

Yes, and I think it's time to start halting the Marxist liberals right where they are.   They got overly confident with Obama in the WH....time to change that.

The Marxist/liberals in academia have a 50 or so year head start. One result we see is the huge support a Socialist (Bernie Sanders) had in the last election cycle - mostly from those under 30 or 40.  Through no fault of their own, the majority of these people have basically been 'indoctrinated' and are ignorant of history.

I think we may have - as a country - reached 'critical mass' and may have run out of time.  If the Lord tarries, we just may be left to wallow in the results of the mistakes that 'we the people' have allowed the ruling class to create.

Blessings,

-Ed

 

 

 

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