So if that’s your understanding, why even bring it up? Wasn’t meant for him, end of story.
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So if that’s your understanding, why even bring it up? Wasn’t meant for him, end of story.
Exactly. For some people racism comes the first thing to their mind.
Sigh. I’m not going to respond anymore, please go “volunteer” at your nearest grocery store guy.
Now you know why I don't respond to him anymore. It's a waste of time. It's a shock that he's divorced! LOL
how many times have you responded since I put up the pic? In the voice of Limp Bizkit... STFU!
How many OT threads can you start? and you replied to the post, so stfu
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Teams don't use the same garage stalls at a track every race. I don't know exactly how they determine which teams use which garage each week at a different track, but I do know they don't always use the same garage.
Post Script
While every statue in every town has a different origin, taken together, the roughly 700 Confederate monuments in the United States tell a national story. Many of these commemorations of those on the losing side of the Civil War are a lot newer than one might think.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which maintains a list of these monuments, the memorials are spread over 31 states plus the District of Columbia—far exceeding the 11 Confederate states that seceded at the outset of the Civil War.
Most of these monuments did not go up immediately after the war’s end in 1865. During that time, commemorative markers of the Civil War tended to be memorials that mourned soldiers who had died, says Mark Elliott, a history professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
“Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments,” he says. “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.
In contrast to the earlier memorials that mourned dead soldiers, these monuments tended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy like General Robert E. Lee, former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General “Thomas Stonewall” Jackson.
“All of those monuments were there to teach values to people,” Elliott says. “That’s why they put them in the city squares. That’s why they put them in front of state buildings.” Many earlier memorials had instead been placed in cemeteries.
The values these monuments stood for, he says, included a “glorification of the cause of the Civil War.”
White women were instrumental in raising funds to build these Confederate monuments. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in the 1890s, was probably the most important and influential group, Elliott says.
In fact, the group was responsible for creating what is basically the Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy: a gigantic stone carving of Davis, Lee and Jackson in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Its production began in the 1910s, and it was completed in the 1960s.
By then, the construction of new Confederate monuments had begun to taper off, but the backlash to the Civil Rights Movement was spreading Confederate symbols in other ways: In 1956, Georgia redesigned its state flag to include the Confederate battle flag; and in 1962, South Carolina placed the flag atop its capitol building. In a 2016 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center said that the country’s more than 700 monuments were part of roughly 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces.
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
Post Script
While every statue in every town has a different origin, taken together, the roughly 700 Confederate monuments in the United States tell a national story. Many of these commemorations of those on the losing side of the Civil War are a lot newer than one might think.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which maintains a list of these monuments, the memorials are spread over 31 states plus the District of Columbia—far exceeding the 11 Confederate states that seceded at the outset of the Civil War.
Most of these monuments did not go up immediately after the war’s end in 1865. During that time, commemorative markers of the Civil War tended to be memorials that mourned soldiers who had died, says Mark Elliott, a history professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
“Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments,” he says. “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.
In contrast to the earlier memorials that mourned dead soldiers, these monuments tended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy like General Robert E. Lee, former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General “Thomas Stonewall” Jackson.
“All of those monuments were there to teach values to people,” Elliott says. “That’s why they put them in the city squares. That’s why they put them in front of state buildings.” Many earlier memorials had instead been placed in cemeteries.
The values these monuments stood for, he says, included a “glorification of the cause of the Civil War.”
White women were instrumental in raising funds to build these Confederate monuments. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in the 1890s, was probably the most important and influential group, Elliott says.
In fact, the group was responsible for creating what is basically the Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy: a gigantic stone carving of Davis, Lee and Jackson in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Its production began in the 1910s, and it was completed in the 1960s.
By then, the construction of new Confederate monuments had begun to taper off, but the backlash to the Civil Rights Movement was spreading Confederate symbols in other ways: In 1956, Georgia redesigned its state flag to include the Confederate battle flag; and in 1962, South Carolina placed the flag atop its capitol building. In a 2016 report, the Southern Poverty Law Center said that the country’s more than 700 monuments were part of roughly 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces.
https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for the removal of Confederate statues at the U.S. Capitol but has remained silent on her father’s role in the dedication of memorials dedicated to Confederate figures.
Pelosi’s father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., oversaw the dedication of a monument to Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee when he was Baltimore’s mayor in 1948, saying at the time that people should be inspired by the two generals and should try to “emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.”
Remember the liberal motto, do what I say, not what I do.
Pelosi’s father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., oversaw the dedication of a monument to Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee when he was Baltimore’s mayor in 1948, saying at the time that people should be inspired by the two generals and should try to “emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.”
Remember the liberal motto, do what I say, not what I do.
I could give two shits about the statues, put them in a museum is what I think. Those ****ers lost, if you want to idolize losers then so be it. It's like that bitch who was driving in the upper valley 10 years ago with a confederate flag flying on his truck. You don't see his bitch ass no more
who gives two craps about pelosi, she's just as dumb as our president
Every time I see her I think of a malfunctioning Robot.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29370228/scary-threatened-police-call-dining-out?platform=amp
So this player is claiming racism because a white person said he was being verbally abusive and the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave. The manager threatened to call the police so the player got scared for his life. We dont know the other side of the story, but he says that the white person was lying. The manager has been suspended and the player wants more than an apology from the restsurant chain.
Stories like this are frustrating because we don't know what actually happened, who is telling the truth, who is lying or who is exaggerating. Still the media runs with it.
So this player is claiming racism because a white person said he was being verbally abusive and the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave. The manager threatened to call the police so the player got scared for his life. We dont know the other side of the story, but he says that the white person was lying. The manager has been suspended and the player wants more than an apology from the restsurant chain.
Stories like this are frustrating because we don't know what actually happened, who is telling the truth, who is lying or who is exaggerating. Still the media runs with it.
