The Toronado was ruined when it got Eldoradoized. I like the original fastback style best.
July 4 is also Filipino-American Friendship Day. Not that it matters, but anyway, greetings from Manila!
Holy shit!
Confederate Apologists,
For many reasons: The election of 1876 ended Reconstruction and allowed Southern states to control the narrative, push the “States Rights” reason for war, and begin to whitewash the histories of Confederate leaders. After WWI, the US saw a boom in commemoration (they wanted to be a big-boy country like those in…
Succinct and right to the point. Well done.
I might also add that the U.S. Civil War is one of the few in history where the losers are more lauded than the winners. How does that work?
I’m all for removing these statues particularly since so many were installed decades after the civil war. It’s not about honoring the past it was about intimidation and reinforcing southern pride. If these people are not going to allow the monuments to be torn down at least let people put up counter monuments…
This person nor her demographic have any idea of the sites you name. The blatantly illogical allegiance to the noble cause was and is asinine. We have books, battlefields and other publicly funded artifacts from this period, enjoy those and leave this Don Quixotesque crusade alone.
We need to pay Paul the younger’s neighbor to keep punching him.
Someone needs to do a Venn diagram of the "muh confederate history" folks and holocaust deniers. I would bet money there's more than a little overlap.
So she’s comparing Confederate statues to:
Forced patriotism is fascism.
Dick Petty is a petty dick.