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A black woman is currently in New Orleans to protest the removal of a Confederate statue.
Arlene Barnum, who once lived in New Orleans but now resides in Oklahoma, has been in the former to protest the city’s removal of Jefferson Davis, who was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Barnum has stated that her race has nothing to do with the support of the Confederacy, but rather “about being on the right side of history.”
“I felt I needed to be at the [monument] for Jefferson Davis because he was the one and only president of the Confederate States of America,” Barnum said in an interview with WGNO. “He’s the most significant of all the monuments to be taken down.”
Barnum has been documenting her time in front of the statue alongside other protesters through Facebook live. The Davis statue is one of three remaining statues in New Orleans that is slated to be removed. The others are monuments of Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard.
Early Monday morning, city workers started working on taking the Liberty Monument down first. The Liberty Monument was made in 1891 to honor the Crescent City White League, an organization created in 1874 to turn Republicans out of office and intimidate freedmen from voting and political organizing.
“There’s a better way to use the property these monuments are on and a way that better reflects who we are,” New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an interview Sunday with the Associated Press.
“The monuments are an aberration,” Landrieu added. “They’re actually a denial of our history and they were done in a time when people who still controlled the Confederacy were in charge of this city, and it only represents a four-year period in our 1,000-year march to where we are today.”
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oh I read that wrong.......lol
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? love to be subjugated...
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Welcome to the jungle
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Another one that Harriet Tubman would've left in a ditch somewhere.
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You know what....
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? all that i wanna see more of those dancing monkeys
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? love to be subjugated...
That word needs to be as popular as the word ? is.. it actually applies more often -
Dumb ? . It's at least a few of these types. I heard a Black dude from TX, saying some ? defending the confederate flag. Stupid ? .
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There's always that one ? .
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How do you lose the war and still wanna keep up statues to your leaders? Seems backwards
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? in the South embrace the confederate flag tho
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? ....that bih from Richmond....
I'm going to say as somebody from New York who moved to rva,who didn't have to intergrate with a majority of white people....Virginians did not to any fault of their own have a different relationship....they almost don't look at the white people in the south as descendants of racist unless we as black people sit around and talk about it....
In other words them ? have become accustomed to white people ways and don't see a difference or problem unless confronted directly with some ? ...not only do some ? rock clothes with confederate flags on them, they rock hunting gear with it on em ass well(black people)....most people from down here really don't know history beyond the inception of America....good job while school system..... -
CashmoneyDux wrote: »? in the South embrace the confederate flag tho
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Stupidity is just a regional thing.
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They are in the "sunken place"...
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CashmoneyDux wrote: »? in the South embrace the confederate flag tho
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? no the ? we don't -
CashmoneyDux wrote: »? in the South embrace the confederate flag tho
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? no the ? we don't
Some do and some don't just like everything else. -
CashmoneyDux wrote: »? in the South embrace the confederate flag tho
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? no the ? we don't
Some do and some don't just like everything else.
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Name these southerners who are black that embrace the flag
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Name these southerners who are black that embrace the flag
Didn't Lil Jon do it on some award show some years ago. -
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He burnt the flag but I assumed we were speaking of real people not rappers. Kanye wore it a few times so do Chicagoans embrace it? -
Revolver Ocelot wrote: »
He burnt the flag but I assumed we were speaking of real people not rappers. Kanye wore it a few times so do Chicagoans embrace it?
Don't see no fire in any of these pics.
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We talking about southerners or rappers from the year 2001?