Comments on: Federal Court Ruling Clears The Way For Removal Of Pensacola Confederate Monument

By: Gregory M Sexton

Gregory M Sexton — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:55:22 +0000

I won’t waste my time trying to impress the importance of
U.S. history to the reader; clearly, it is a futile endeavor. The interested parties aren’t interested in historical facts… It’s easier
to nod our heads and follow the PC position that the second war of independence was primarily fought over slave state vs non slave state. Look to see , listen to comprehend….
DEO VINDICE

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:08:42 +0000

@Tabby

Are you making the argument that slaves should have been grateful for being removed from their families, shipped in hellish conditions across an ocean to be sold into slavery, and then worked until they were of no use anymore because it was “better” than living in Africa?

This is the most backwards logic that I can think of. Then again, we are talking about a monument to the Confederacy.

By: Tabby

Tabby — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:32:19 +0000

@Mary Stevens— FINALLY ! Someone who apparently knows how to read and has a belief system rooted in facts, not emotion. The south was self sufficient. The north needed the south to survive. Unfortunately, the south didn’t receive much representation from the money collected from it. And yes, Lincoln was racist as heck. Far more racist than Lee himself. Most people don’t know Lincoln’s motivation for freeing slaves was to deport them legally. If my people were slaves, I wouldn’t be mad, I’d be greatful. That I’m here and not in Africa. That I have a better life than I could expect anywhere in the world.

By: Tabby

Tabby — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:22:40 +0000

@Henry Coe–You had a fair argument till the last sentence. That being said, hope to see you when society breaks down.
@Another Liberal Judge– So because of the politics of an appointee, the appointed can’t be an activist judge ? That’s pretty ignorant seeing as what Bush turned out to be. A RINO like fake war hero, John Mccain, or Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts. Nomatter, they’re all going to get exactly what they want in the end. We all will.

By: ITS A LOST CAUSE

ITS A LOST CAUSE — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:12:36 +0000

@ CHARLOTTE

You should do some reading about BLM. The real terrorist are the Proud Boys, 3%ers, the WHITE NATIONALIST. You wake up. You’ve been indoctrinated as you like to call it.

Like Robert said; Some of us aren’t proud of our slave owning ancestors past, unlike you. We are ready to move on, to tell the truth about the past, and we want change.

Teaching history correctly isn’t rewriting it.

By: OverIt

OverIt — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:47:26 +0000

Another example of the re-writing of American History. The history of the US is a complicated and not always pretty one. It is tim e for us as a country to embrace OUR collective history – the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY!!

How will our children and our children’s children know how to proceed through the future if we continue to erase the past from view?? Remember the quote – those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it ??

By: CHARLOTTE SCHWARTZ

CHARLOTTE SCHWARTZ — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:27:00 +0000

Thank you Mary Stevens. So many people don’t know this and that’s why they are doing this AWFUL thing……tearing down monuments that DO NOT do anything but stand there. People are using a statue as an EXCUSE to be violent and destroy anything!

Robert Bruner, you need to read up on your history and understand BLM is just a front for terrorist and NOT about any lives mattering.

Hate to see this statue being taken down. Would love to have it in my front yard, but no you can’t do that.

People are so ignorant in matters. My ancestors DID NOT own slaves, they were a type of slave themselves……share croppers!!!!!! So all this crap about White privilege’s is again just a way to get sympathy and/or to tear towns down with violence!!!!

Wake up people, it’s just the start!

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 18:16:31 +0000

Appeasement is a fools errand.

For those who think to erase history, perhaps history may per chance erase you.

This is certainly an exciting, though sometimes distressing, period of history to be living through.

By: Robert Bruner

Robert Bruner — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:28:52 +0000

I’m not proud of my family’s slave holding past. If you do a little research as to WHY these monuments were put there, it’s not because of “our fallen soldiers”. It was to keep alive “the Lost Cause”, which is obviously what many of you still believe in. It’s time to admit we lost the war and try to repair the damage it caused and continues today.

By: Joan S

Joan S — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 02:45:36 +0000

Never thought this junk would happen in Florida Panhandle! God bless all of you. Be strong.