President Donald Trump, post-Charlottesville, warned the tearing down of statues would lead to a widespread call for more monuments to be uprooted, moved and removed — and despite being scoffed, he’s right. Now a pastor in Chicago has called on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to remove a monument of George Washington that’s stood in teh city for years.
When will it end?
As Bishop James Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center indicated, as he was petitioning for the removal of the Washington statue — there really is no end in sight.
The Washington Times reports:
President Trump’s question to reporters on Tuesday about the possibility of tearing down historical monuments has been answered by a Chicago pastor: “It’s time.”
Bishop James E. Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center made headlines in the Windy City on Wednesday for calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rename Washington Park and remove a statue of the first U.S. president over his ties to slavery. Mr. Dukes told his Facebook flock that “it’s time” after Mr. Trump sparred with reporters over efforts to expunge Civil War-era monuments from existence.“This week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder is it George Washington next week and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Mr. Trump asked reporters on Tuesday as he spoke on last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Protests over the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. resulted in the killing of Heather Heyer, 32, when suspect James Alex Fields, 20, plowed his vehicle into a crowd.
“It’s time. Please read my letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and The Chicago Park District,” Mr. Dukes wrote on Facebook Tuesday night. “I’m calling on them to change the names of Washington and Jackson Park. Slave owners do not deserve the honor of our children playing in parks named after them. There is no way a Native American Community would allow a General Custer Park or a Jewish Community allow a Gestapo Park in their community.”
The pastor’s letter was reported by a local CBS affiliate on Wednesday and shared on local radio.
“I am feeling ambivalent that I would have to walk my child, attend a parade or enjoy a game of softball in a park that commemorates the memory of a slave owner,” Mr. Dukes continued. “Therefore, I call on the immediate removal of President George Washington and President Andrew Jackson names from the parks located on the southeast side of Chicago. They should not have the distinct honor of being held as heroes when they actively participated in the slave trade.”
The pastor’s letter neglected to mention Washington’s role in the Battle of Yorktown, a pivotal victory for the general that secured the nation’s independence from Great Britain.
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Just another brain dead liberal that wants to destroy our history like the Nazis tried to do in Germany and isis is trying to do in the middle east. After the statues what next, Books, Money, Cities, States ? Pure Stupidity.
I just got my Twitter account locked (temporarily) for tweeting the following words together alt left Muslim terrorists destroy statues FDR and Wilson. I sent out a couple of tweets. I mostly tweet on sports. The alt- left Muslim terrorist thing is now verbotten?
I don’t think most people realize we are at the beginning of the end. The alt left is winning this. At this point I am blaming the republicans for being so weak
Ohjeez the left is going to end up going too far…. remember Kathie Griffin? She went to far too… we need to let them hang themselves
I think with their control of media and academia the fight is over. The republicans have totally blown it and I don’t see trump lasting. We will see what happens with pence
They don’t care.They care for themselves only, the good life and the perks.
Republicans have ben given the country to run, and the next election to loose if they continue to be stupid like they have been.
The republicans are too afraid of being called racist, homophobic, you get the idea. They’d rather be the minority party, so they could “attack” Democrats, and look good for their dwindling voter base.
I’ve maintained that the Dems could easily regain the Senate, and make significant gains in the House in 2018, even though their entire platform is just being anti-Trump.
Yep republicans have fucked up big time
Republicans are Rinos, same as demonc-rats, just a different name.. They keep quiet and let their allies do whatever they want. They don’t want to give up the good life the working Americans provide them.
If historical figures who kept slaves are so heinous, so vile that we should remove all references to them, why is nobody demanding that all references to Mohamed be expunged. After all, he is much more influential today than Robert E Lee or Stonewall Jackson.
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Agree. in fact when American farmers were looking for workers they found muslims slave sellers ready to sell them african slaves for hefty price which they had to recover so they had to keep them on the farms.
Even now muslims keep slaves and Left/Liberal BLM like fools support Islam !
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… till it hits them they won’t wake up.
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How ’bout we tear down this racist cuck’s church?
Some African Countries were the SUPPLIER of slaves to the BUYERS in the US.
Should we tell Amazon to stop selling Angolan and Congo flags?
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Blacks are far more racists than whites but where is the outrage or is it that people in general like it that way and it doesn’t sell newspapers….
Agreed. That has been my lifelong observation and experience. But sadly most Whites do not seem to be aware of it.
A lot of blacks think white slave raiders went to Africa and captured black to sell them into slavery, but they’re wrong. Arabs and black Africans did the raiding and sold them to whites, mostly Portuguese, I believe, who then brought them to America for resale.
let these fools chase this burning fuse all the way to mohammed, that should be fun to watch
Yeah, and their Holy Book even has verses on Slavery, Pedophilia, and Homo-phobia.
IRAN is also an APARTHEID State against women. Lots of flags we could burn, but the will the liberals do it? nope!
But blacks gladly convert to islam and change their name to muslim names…. go figure , how stupid can some blacks be…
Cassius Clay was the name of an abolitionist. CC, the boxer, changed his name to a muslim name, Muhammed Ali… and adopted the religion which despises blacks and enslaves them. Abeed in Arabic is the same for black and for slave. Duhhh!!
Wow! I did not know that. Thanks for sharing this information.
Good point Let’s start doing it wherever we can.
Like the Left in general, Bishop James E. Dukes is an enemy to America.
enemy
1 A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
The Left’s agenda in removing American statues isn’t about the statues. This is a Mao Zedong style cultural revolution. Part of the ongoing attack on the very foundation of America. These people are communists and in my opinion, enemies of the State.
It’s a COUP Attempt!
As I’ve said many times. It’s a COUP to overturn the 2016 elections and destroy the Constitution!
Same as the Talibans and ISIS destroying statues and building of other cultures and religions.
Agreed. You have to wonder why those who want to be “political activists” never so much as ran for class president in school.
If its so bad here…. leave
Socialist traitors to the Constitution oppose the rights of people to free speech and the only way to common ground for the traitors is total submission or get beaten bloody. Show up to a demonstration with clubs, pepper spray, gas masks and facial masks to disguised their identities you are not there for peaceful means. The domestic terrorists are the scum that got mowed down in Charlotsville. No sympathy for this trash whatsoever. They got some push back and now they claim victim-hood. What is the end game for the American version of the Taliban? Substitute lies for history. Eff em.
The so-called politically correct/leftists/liberals are actually European socialists. They are against individual human rights! They are against our First Amendment rights – in fact all individual rights!
so do we need to rename DC and the state of WA too?
Let every election between now and the end of 2018 be a time of Retribution against the Democrats.
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED – RED!
THIS GOES TO SHOW US THAT MEN LIKE THIS SO CALLED PASTOR SUPPOSEDLY A MAN OF GOD IS JUST AS HATE FILLED AS HIS MOSLEM COUNTERPARTS THE IMAMS. SO SAD REALLY , THE STATUE HAS BEEN THERE SINCE WAY BEFORE THIS CRETIN WAS EVEN BORN . APPARENTLY PASTOR DUKES A BISHOP(?) AT THE COMMUNIST INSPIRED LIBERATION CHRISTIAN(?) CENTER HATES THE VERY COUNTRY HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN . TO BAD HE JUST DOESN’T LEAVE AND MOVE TO CUBA OR VENEZUELA .
His is a pastor at a Liberation church just like Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor. “The chickens came home to roost,, after 9/11.” God don’t bless America, Godd D-m America!!’ remember????? These people are full of hate and Hussein and Moochelle sat in his church for 20 yrs.
I say we take down all statues of Martin Luther King,Rosa Parks,etc and bury the underground railroad.If our country’s history needs to be erased,and good luck with that,then ALL history needs to be erased.Not just WHITE HISTORY!!!
The liberals’ beef is SLAVERY.
Some African Countries were the SUPPLIER of slaves to the BUYERS in the US.
Should we tell Amazon to stop selling Angolan and Congo flags? Ghana was also a supplier of slaves.
Muhammad and Muslims also practiced slavery, pedophillia, in ancient times too. So does that mean we should take down every muslim flag and symbol?
There are still millions of slaves in countries where shari’a and islam are dominant. All symbols of islam must be destroyed as they testify to the continuation of black slavery by white muslims.
What part of YES do you not understand?
Who is this pastor to make those sort of demands. Trump is right. Where will it end? Removing all statues? Blow up Mt. Rushmore because one of them may have said something that may have offended somebody today. Once this happens on a larger scale, what we know as America today will no longer be. These things are happening faster now than can be reported on.
Yes and we have the greatest weapon if we just ask Him to save us from this mess.
Yes Santa and I want to know who paid for these statues and why one man or even a small group of people can have them removed. This is publicly owned property! It was paid for by local and federal money and probably had private donors. Some of them may have been paid entirely with private donations. This is a crime!
Never mind the 800 people killed or 4,000 people shot last year on Chicago’s predominantly black South Side. Let’s focus on a statue!
The distraction value of this is clear. Is anyone fooled by it?
Charles Barkley agrees with you – and so do I:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/18/charles-barkley-slams-protests-of-stupid-confederate-statues-ive-always-ignored-them/
Remember the Muslims were prime providers of slaves, one only has to look at Zanzibar. Their founder kept slaves. In Mauritania, the Arabs enslave the blacks as they have done since 640AD. Americans were enslaved by Barbary pirates.
All symbols of islam and the qur’an must also be removed and destroyed, as slavery is still encouraged and permitted by the qur’an. There are millions of black slaves in islamic countries. If century old reminders of slavery are to be removed, then it is even more important to remove current ones, which is all of islamic origin.
This is the stupidity of the left in it’s prime.
Everything they have is thanks to their ancestors, but f*** all that. Let’s self hate everyone and everything that made history, because we want a clean slate, and get our ego worshiped as perfect human beings, that we’ll never get to be.
Their arrogance and megalomania is astonishing.
They should stop the stupidity, and do and support stuff that actually matters. Right now, they are the root of the problem that is Islam.
The nerve of these ppl is that when the s*** hits the fan, they are the first ones to compromise or run for the hills, looking for safe spaces. Right now they’re rallying in Barcelona, for photo shoots with candles and flowers, so they can be the news. F**** THEM.
Remember that the agenda is not really the agenda!
This is just another thing to disrupt social order just like the entire transexual and bathroom nonsense when everyone knows that you do not need to show ID to use a bathroom.
In addition to generally disrupting social order it also prevents Trump from carrying out his promises to the American people.
Where it will end? Hopefully in the liberation of Africans enslaved today in Islamic countries, hopefully in the removal of mosques, as the founder of the enslavement of Africans was Muhammad, who called Africans slave (Abeed: Arabic for African & slave). A fact that exposes weak people who when confronted with this fact, exposes their idiotic mind-control unbalanced with facts. Fact is, while Africans are enslaved in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, north-Sudan, Mauritania, Algeria, Nigeria(?) & so on, the American government makes ‘America great again’ by building mega-mosques, armed Islamistisis, promoted Boko Haram, Islam, censors for Islam, sells weapons to Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Islamic Nigeria (?), keeps it national, supports Islam worldwide & so on.
We definitely SHOULD expose people who were prejudiced & racist against Africans & like that corrupted the human race-development: Muhammad, American presidents, philosophers of the “enlightenment”, Marx, Gandhi.
Hip Hop came, the NBA came, Africans matter.
#Only Globalfirm.
#BoycottIslam #Shariafreeworld
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on
[ Muhammad originated the enslavement of Africans by saying bis deity turned Africans black so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks. ]
According to Islam, blacks were created by Allah as coal to stoke the fires of Hell.
Prominent LIBERAL colleges getting “zillions” in tax dollar grants to spew their rhetoric have notorious “historical” affiliations with SLAVERY equal to, in some cases worse than, those historical figures whose monuments are being torn down. If the lefties are going to “take down” historical landmarks, guess these “bastions of socialism” LITERALLY FOUNDED BY “racist” SLAVE HOLDERS will have to kiss the wrecking ball too, no?
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED BY A SLAVE OWNER (Isaac Royall); “The Royall family’s coat of arms was adopted as the seal to honor slave owner Isaac Royall Jr.’s gift to Harvard upon his death in 1781, which allowed the formation of Harvard Law School.” (Business Insider 3/15/16)
“Historians have long pointed out that Yale (the University) is deeply implicated in the institution of slavery. Many of its prominent buildings are named after slaveholders or slavery apologists.” … “Elihu Yale, the namesake of this august and venerable institution, was himself an active and successful slave trader.” (Digital Histories at Yale, 11/1/14)
“Brown University commissioned a study of its own historical connection to the Atlantic slave trade. The report found that the Brown family — the wealthy Rhode Island merchants for whom the university was named — were “not major slave traders, but they were not strangers to the business either.” (NPR 9/17/13)
Revised history books will negate the truths and slant the text to fulfill their wrong agenda.
ALL of the collages & university’s are not telling our kiddos the truths so now we see the graduated products of functual illiterates.
Welcome to the NWO’s Agenda 21.
Thanks goes to Geo. Soros and his ilk.
And only a few miles away, a bust of Abe Lincoln is vandalized. Perhaps homie on da Souf Side figured out that Lincoln reluctantly freed the slaves in the middle of the Civil War, and would’ve kept them enslaved if he thought he could end the war without freeing them.
Trump was right of course. We all knew this would happen. And it wont stop there. The anti-American racist leftists have only yet begun to tear down our country.
Mt. Rushmore, here they come!!
Oh no, thats going to take a BIG bomb.
Sign a petition to remove the MEATHEAD – the pastor. See how he likes it.
It was normal for people to own slaves in Washington’s time and the vast majority of the owners were Christians, in fact Christianity was used to justify it. So Duke is ignorant of history to say the least.
Of course the biggest owners of slaves and the progenitors of the slavery trade were Muslims.
Christians eventually abolished slavery while Muslims still maintain this institution.
If you want some ‘prestige’ and power over people, invent a new church for yourself
Do you know that in Seattle, Washington, there is a HUGE statue of Lennin? I saw it and took a picture of it to prove it. Will the lefties honor it or demand its destruction?
Liberia would be a good place to send this leftist pastor.
Bishop James Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center is hiding behide the word, “Christian” is like the Islamic terrorists hiding behind children while making bombs.
God foregive this fool.
Is this so called pastor going to demand the removal of the Martine Luther King Blvd. street signs?
Save your gas and give him brass!
These statues and monuments are a reflection of our national heritage and history and were never meant as a celebration of dominance, bigotry, or any other base emotion. They are indicative of the national mood and political sentiment of their time and place in history and should not be removed or disturbed based on current street politics or mob rule. Remember, the central issue in the Civil War was not slavery but states rights.
Both my parents are buried a few feet from one of my mom’s distant relatives who served in the Confederate military. It is called heritage, not hate.
Before attempting to rewrite history, there are those who should read some.
This was inevitable, but we already know, as does the president, that there are thousands, if not millions of these ignoramuses, who are pleased to broadcast their resentments and signal their “pain” and their virtue.
In this case, the sanctimonious idiot is a black man, but in the elitist halls of no less a company than Google, a decent and talented employee was fired after female employees complained that his memorandum regarding that company’s policies caused them “pain.”
Therein lies the two-step for the modern left: first claim injury (however frivolous) – then exact revenge.
Indeed, there are many who harbor a cherished hope that if they succeed in destroying this country – which they know in their gut follows when a country destroys its own heritage – they may find themselves better positioned for what comes next.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
What is true, however, is that none of this is about statues, or the confederacy, or even about “hate.”
This is all about cultural and political power – nothing more, and nothing less.
Who paid for these statues?
They were probably built on taxpayer funds, which means local and federal money AND private donations. This means (or should mean) that it is not up to a single locality to remove a statue within that locality. I do not see that a small group of people or that a single person, mayor or not, should have the ability to remove public property.
The removal of Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill is an extension of this same movement to erase American History. I just found this petition to “Keep Jackson.” You may wish to sign it:
” Bishop James Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center.” Liberation Theology is a Marxist theology and has nothing to do with real Christianity. A whole bunch of black pastors are going to be in shock when they stand before Jesus and hear “depart from me. I never knew you.” Ditto Pope Francis and his liberation theology.
The Left scoffs at EVERYTHING Trump says, but he’s often right! In this case, in the violent intentions of both sides at Charlottesville, are they really stupid enough to think this is going to help them?
Hey libturds, lets just erase all history so your feeble minds can run free and chase butterflies. You can’t fix stupid.
What they really are after is our Constitution. The libturd NWO will try and erase the Civil War history by eliminating/defacing great monuments, then they will begin erasing the towns, cities, streets, schools that are named after any Confederate General, etc., then comes the Constitution. They do not want Americans abiding by the Constitution.
They’re on the attack against our country and are hitting it and trying to hit it at its very foundations. Now, they are after our founding fathers. And no one is saying boo about the statue of Stephen Arnold Douglas, also from Illinois, and a proponent of slavery. Perhaps, because he was a Democrat. In any case, this is the sort of thing that totalitarian regimes have done throughout history, often as a precursor to their reign. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans are outraged over this removal and discrediting of our history and want the monuments to remain. But, as usual, those who want to tear down are not listening and do not care. It is outrageous. We are in the fight of our lives for our freedoms.
It’s all very selective with them.
If the Africans and gimmeniggrants don’t like America, why don’t they move back to Africa? They could not survive without White man’s welfare handouts.