'Oh! Susanna' songwriter's statue removed from Pittsburgh park after criticism

[fabulouslyghetto]

Re: A statue- complete with banjo-pickin slave, honoring a racist songwriter was taken down and white people are calling it reverse racism

How 'bout these comments by His 'High'ness Kanye?

We're looking for the receipt so we can return him to the store he's obviously defective. I warned people when he married into that clan of succubi that this would happen. There's a growing movement to boycott him and I hope it works I hope his new album barely goes aluminum.

 

[ballcaphair]

Re: A statue- complete with banjo-pickin slave, honoring a racist songwriter was taken down and white people are calling it reverse racism

We're looking for the receipt so we can return him to the store he's obviously defective. I warned people when he married into that clan of succubi that this would happen. There's a growing movement to boycott him and I hope it works I hope his new album barely goes aluminum.

If you cannot find the receipt, just grab his shoes and socks. I'll drop him off downtown with a banjo.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Re: A statue- complete with banjo-pickin slave, honoring a racist songwriter was taken down and white people are calling it reverse racism

If you cannot find the receipt, just grab his shoes and socks. I'll drop him off downtown with a banjo.

Too close, can we duct tape him to the side of a train that's headed towards the Rockies?

 

[opinterph]

Someone could chisel off that monument. (Had never heard of it until now btw. The mountain itself reminds me of Ayers Rock/Uluru in grey instead of red.) but if they chiselled it off it would look a lot like the Taliban blowing up the statues of Bamiyan. How sad that someone should be afraid of an idea. And if they do that they lose the meaning of King and Borders to reclaim the place.

The mountain itself is the largest granite monolith in the world, but ranks 13th in size of all monoliths. Uluru is the largest monolith on the planet.

If the carving were to be chiseled off – it wouldn’t be the first time. Here is the original version:

And here is what it looked like when I was a kid, before the park existed:

Native Americans used the site for millennia before the Europeans arrived. The land was located between the Creek Nation and the Cherokee Nation, but was primarily inhabited by the Creek who were decimated by disease brought to the area by English traders in the 17th century. Survivors formed the Creek Confederation to oppose further European incursion. The two tribes used Stone Mountain as their ceremonial meeting ground. President Andrew Jackson (the guy whose painting currently hangs in the Oval Office of the White House) called for the removal of the Creek and Cherokee people and in 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears soon followed. (My personal lineage includes both Creek and Cherokee.)

Four million people visit Stone Mountain Park each year. The opportunities to use the site to illustrate inclusion and education are profound.

 

[opinterph]

… it's still fucking happening.

What Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill? (Daily Beast; April 19, 2018)

President Trump, a fan of Andrew Jackson, the current face of the $20, has not spoken on the redesign since his election, but in 2016 he said the decision was “pure political correctness” and recommended that Tubman’s portrait should go on the barely circulated $2 bill instead.

 

[TX-Beau]

What Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill? (Daily Beast; April 19, 2018)

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You'd better stop complaining or Donald is going to come finish what Jackson started!

 

[opinterph]

Donald

 

[LilBit]

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[opinterph]

Your attachment isn't showing up.

It's from my Just for Fun gallery, which I just noticed is "private." Sorry.

I'll un-privatize it.

 

[rareboy]

The mountain itself is the largest granite monolith in the world, but ranks 13th in size of all monoliths. Uluru is the largest monolith on the planet.

If the carving were to be chiseled off – it wouldn’t be the first time. Here is the original version:

And here is what it looked like when I was a kid, before the park existed:

Native Americans used the site for millennia before the Europeans arrived. The land was located between the Creek Nation and the Cherokee Nation, but was primarily inhabited by the Creek who were decimated by disease brought to the area by English traders in the 17th century. Survivors formed the Creek Confederation to oppose further European incursion. The two tribes used Stone Mountain as their ceremonial meeting ground. President Andrew Jackson (the guy whose painting currently hangs in the Oval Office of the White House) called for the removal of the Creek and Cherokee people and in 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears soon followed. (My personal lineage includes both Creek and Cherokee.)

Four million people visit Stone Mountain Park each year. The opportunities to use the site to illustrate inclusion and education are profound.

Stone Mountain is a tragic mess.

It is an obscene parody of the kitschy mess they made at Rushmore.

And it serves as the kind of shrine to southern racism that helps keep the flame burning in the hearts of most of the visitors.

Too bad it couldn't be moved into storage, but if we're lucky, one day, the face might shear off.

 

[bankside]

Stone Mountain is a tragic mess.

It is an obscene parody of the kitschy mess they made at Rushmore.

And it serves as the kind of shrine to southern racism that helps keep the flame burning in the hearts of most of the visitors.

Too bad it couldn't be moved into storage, but if we're lucky, one day, the face might shear off.

I sense the indignation but it seems to be more on aesthetic grounds...

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I'll un-privatize it.

That's what she said

 

[ballcaphair]

A stone wall with Stonewall Jackson. Must be happy hour.
(this quip is not intended for the Natives)

 

[TX-Beau]

A stone wall with Stonewall Jackson. Must be happy hour.
(this quip is not intended for the Natives)

The "natives" really aren't all that happy with Mt. Rushmore either. I spent six years or so working with Tribes around the country, that was an eye opener. Trust me, you don't know what you think you know.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

The "natives" really aren't all that happy with Mt. Rushmore either. I spent six years or so working with Tribes around the country, that was an eye opener. Trust me, you don't know what you think you know.

 

[frankfrank]

We're looking for the receipt so we can return him to the store he's obviously defective. I warned people when he married into that clan of succubi that this would happen. There's a growing movement to boycott him and I hope it works I hope his new album barely goes aluminum.

How about the album going tin?

Or better yet, thulium, one of the most useless natural elements (i.e. not synthetic and unstable created in a lab).

 

[ballcaphair]

The "natives" really aren't all that happy with Mt. Rushmore either. I spent six years or so working with Tribes around the country, that was an eye opener. Trust me, you don't know what you think you know.

I'm a travelling nurse that cares for Navajo, Apache, Ute, and Paiute, People. I serve Santa Fe to the Colorado border. I do not know everything, but I've got a pretty hands on grasp. I also speak Historical Tewa. "Ili nee." (Can say it, but I cannot spell it. I'm offering you respect and gratitude from all of me.)

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

How about the album going tin?

Or better yet, thulium, one of the most useless natural elements (i.e. not synthetic and unstable created in a lab).

There's a movement to boycott his music and sneakers and whatever else he's hawking and even black celebs are throwing their hats in the ring and distancing themselves from him, I'm glad that his coonery and buffoonery is being met with staunch opposition because a man of his influence [he's/was a modern icon in black music] shouldn't be a mouthpiece for this ignorance, it could confuse his younger impressionable fans who are already receiving mixed and toxic messages from within and outside of their community during critical development years. I was curious at first if he was going to be held accountable for this lunacy because he's always been a lil wonky and we liked that about him, we liked "George Bush doesn't care about black people" Kanye.

I personally did see hints of him coming unwound even before he joined the devil's daughters via matrimony to one of satan's actual mistresses [forever emblazoned in my mind is a clip of his mother in law taking pictures of her daughter/his wife and encouraging her like a fitness trainer during a photoshoot where she was wearing nothing but a bunch of carefully-placed pearls and a pair of heels]. When he first launched his fashion line years ago he was video'd drunk and calling himself Martin Luther King or something. Most wrote it off as a booze-fueld tirade and typical hip hop braggadocio and I would have too if he eyes weren't wide like a runaway-slave who hears the rustle of men with muskets a few trees over.

Back to popular black figures' response, some have stopped just short of calling for his complete exile and his famous detractors include Chris Brown and Tristan Thompson-- if you're unfamiliar Brown is a former teen singer turned drug addict who beat up his pop star girlfriend and Thompson is an NBA baller who once abandoned his then pregnant [ex] girlfriend to hook up with Kanye's sister-in-law who just gave birth to his child whilst numerous affairs he's been carrying on while she was pregnant have come to light-- part of why he got caught is he flaunted these women by inviting them to his games while his current gf was at home gestating his child. When a junkie wifebeater and a man who cheated on two pregnant women are like "This guy's a sleazebag" it's time to do some soul-searching.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

the confederacy's legacy is actually coming down for real real not for play play

unbeknownst to me recent removals of conf memorials weren't isolated incidents, apparently since 2015 they've been taken down in regular intervals, welp too bad so sad they lost so suck it

http://www.nola.com/national_politics/2018/06/110_confederate_monuments_remo.html

It took generations to erect all the nation's Confederate monuments, and a new report shows they're being removed at a pace of about three each month.

The study -- released Monday (June 4) by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- shows that 110 Confederate monuments have been removed nationwide since 2015, when a shooting at a black church in South Carolina energized a movement against such memorials.

The number -- which includes schools and roads that have been renamed in California, a repurposed Confederate holiday in Georgia, plus rebel flags and monuments that have been taken down in Alabama, Louisiana and elsewhere -- represents a relative handful compared with the more than 1,700 memorials that remain to hail the Southern "lost cause."

I say good riddance

 

[Cormac135]

Re: the confederacy's legacy is actually coming down for real real not for play play

Hopefully none of them are replaced with any pc nonsense.