Time to give him a shoutout before Chicago's worthless dyke mayor cancels him

Great to see she has her eye on what's important




https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/ ... s-protests

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Don’t like it

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Leave his statue alone. But if you want to replace someone on currency, why not put Harriet Tubman on the fifty dollar bill? I will not accept nor carry a fifty. Fifties are frogs. They are bad luck. Grant died broke. Why the fuck would I want him in my pocket?

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Freedom is our Strength.

Take them all down so we can get the Floyd statues up already.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I'm curious if anyone's life has gotten measurably better by the removal of a statue?

Has anyone's life gotten measurably better by the presence of a statue?

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he appointed the first native american commissioner of indian affairs (believing there were no superior or inferior "races"), and was a huge part of the reconstruction era to better the lives of blacks.

what microaggression is he now being punished for? that he didn't gas everyone in the confederacy and set up concentration camps for survivors?

Is this a serious observation? How many museums, tourist destinations and other places created have created livelihoods for millions of people throughout history? And this is before the philosophical question of what is really valuable in life. If works of art are meaningless and don't create "value" then I guess justifications for civilization ring empty to many.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

There should be no objection then to removing all these statues and putting them in a museum.

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Obviously. That's why they are created. We used to call that "humanity".

But your point isn't really about art or statues generally, is it? The argument is about who the statues are going to be of.

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Agree 100%. Also, the admission price of the museum should be raised to enable such. Art is for rich people. Put it behind walls where it belongs.

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It can be free

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They could save some money by making this museum be outdoors.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Everything can be free. And it should be. College should be free. Divorces should be free too.

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This should be referenced when people ask why students should get degrees in history

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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Again, there is no argument about statues. No one is against statues. The argument is about who gets one and who/what they represent. Our history and our heroes. The iconoclasts are trying to start with Year Zero. It won't be long before some guys here are asking why we shouldn't rename the months.

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I suppose if I mentioned that MLK had some problematic elements in his past, it would be shouted down.

Since we are ok with erasing anyone short of a saint, I don't want to hear howling in the latin community the next time a developer wants to put up a building that blocks a mural.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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That would be cool.

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They want us to remember slavery, but to tear down and forget about the people who had the foresight, courage and determination to end it. When this is the case, it's pretty clear what the objections of the woke left is, and that their motivates are revenge and power. Ripping down every statue of a white guy regardless of what he stood for is a pretty clear indication of what this social justice movement is about.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

If you happen to accidentally get a fifty feel free to send it to me. I consider fifty dollar bills that arrive in the mail to be good luck.

Grant might've been broke-ass when he croaked, but he left his family well taken care of, thanks to the success of his memoirs. Grant's widow receiving a $200,000 (1886, $7mil today) royalty check 6 months after Grant passed. She'd more than double that in royalties from her husband's memoirs before her death 20 years later.

I wish I could have made this point as succinctly as you did.

(good dolphin is actually my mult, which I guess is the worst-kept secret on the board)

I'd be surprised if Chicago actually does anything about most of these statues, I just don't think there a sufficient wokeness quotient to most city residents. The Haymarket Riot police one is interesting though.

Over weekend I saw a documentary about Grant. Mentioned how he aggressively went after the KKK and eradicated them for the most part until they rose again in later years. These commentators actually called him the first civil rights president. However some others of Grant's time, who disagreed with sending in federal troops to the south, called him a dictator.

The Columbus statues are already gone. And I doubt more than 10 percent know what Haymarket was.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

wait just one fucking second: Billy Ocasio is on the committee judging other people...a person so flawed in his personal and public life, that he left elected office one step ahead of...

Fuck me sideways

Cindy Santos? from a family so deep in holding government jobs while also being paid as an elected official that there is not a number high enough to describe the dipping so we just call it double dipping? And I promise you this dingleberry of a mayor put her on the commission for the same mistaken reason she continued to win elections in growing latino diststrict. Despite her highlighting a name that most would mistake as latino it is greek and she is as white as the snow that fell on the city this week.

These are just the scoundrels I know off the top of my head. I can only imagine what all these notable UIC intellectuals have going on in their backgrounds.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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Remove all statues from public spaces and never spend a dime of taxpayer money on them again.

Rename parks, streets, schools, and anything else named after a real person.

This is the key to our utopia.

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I think there might be a time and a place for such discussions on statues, park names, school/building names, etc. But Ogie hit the nail on the head in the OP;

Forget the violence, car jackings, businesses going under, and the pandemic. Let's go after statues!

I said this on FB earlier. Shame on me for being surprised, but I am still amazed at just how tone deaf rich people and politicians have been over the last year and a half.

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Michael Knowles is correct about these idiots' opinions on Columbus and it goes for a lot of other great men who are being denigrated and erased too: "You're standing on the shoulders of giants and you think you're flying."

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Freedom is our Strength.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.