Baltimore: ALL Confederate Statues Have Now Been Removed

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It doesn't make sense to me.

I can understand wanting to remove Grant's Tomb in a Southern city. But New York?

I just don't get it.

PC gone haywire!

That is weird.Not that I like the old devil.
If they remove it,how will people ask the age old puzzler,"Who is buried in Grant's tomb?"

One wouldn't believe this based upon his gruff exterior:

But Grant was quite a squeamish man. His father was a tanner by profession, and tried to teach Ulysses how to perform the tasks of the trade. Ulysses found the "tasks of the trade" disgusting.

Grant also didn't like to "backtrack." He would take a circuitous route "back" to a location, rather than take a more direct route if the route involved "backtracking."

The issue is anti-Semitism.

Unlike Lee (who is now getting hit for his life's greatest achievement: helping to lead a rebellion against the USA), Grant is getting picked on for an obscure footnote in his career as a general.

Grant's Order Number Eleven was the issue.

The north and south had split into two warring countries. So suddenly northern mills couldn't get southern cotton, and southern plantations couldn't sell their cotton, unless both traded with the enemy. So the Union allowed limited trade, but you had to be licensed through the US Army to traffic in cotton between the north and south. This spawned unlicensed traders.

In 1862 grant was in charge of the military district of Kentucky Mississippi and Alabama. Part of his attempt to crack down on the black market trade in cotton was to "strongly encourage" Jews to leave the states he was in charge of because he had the notion that Jews were instrumental in the black market trade. The order was for railroad conductors to not allow Jews to travel south of the town of Jackson, and to "encourage" Jews to travel north of Jackson away from the south.



Jews in the north made an outcry as well as did Congressmen. And Lincoln stepped in and rescinded the order.

When Grant ran for president in 1868 he won the majority of the Jewish vote. So his action did not have much effect on anything, on Jews, or even on his relationship with Jews. And Grant later made amends with the Jewish community, appointed more Jews on his cabinet than did any previous president. He spoke out against persecution of Jews in Europe, and he was the first American president to attend a service in a synagogue as president.

What we really need is a Godzilla monument.

HA!! I had forgotten about a place in Maryland, called "Taneytown", until I heard it, this morning, on the news----and, a lightbulb went-off, and I had to check if it was named-after the judge. Turns-out, it was NOT named-after him, but a distant relative----but, I would bet, almost anything, that that relative owned slaves, as well, since he was one of the first land owners, in that area.

This got me thinkin' about whether there are OTHER cities / locales in the U.S. that might be named-after "something Confederate", and it turns-out, there are more than FORTY locales:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_named_after_prominent_Confederate_historical_figures

So, what are they gonna do, NOW----burn them all down? Like I said----when will it end? (Obviously, I know they could just re-name all of them, but I think that's stupid, TOO!!)

Looks like removing statues of colonialists is starting to pick up here in Australia
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2017/0 ... -hyde-park