History Is Now History
The New
Orleans city council voted to remove four monuments to the Confederacy that
currently adorn Lee Circle. Statues of General Robert E. Lee, General P.G.T. Beauregard
and Confederate president Jefferson Davis will be removed, as will the obelisk
dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place. (Ironic as it may seem to the vast
hordes who believe that Republicans are the racists, this battle was instigated
in 1874 by the Crescent City White League, which was a paramilitary organization
of the Democratic Party… and was fought against the legal Reconstruction state
government then located in New Orleans).
Councilman
James Gray called the statues homages to “murderers and rapists.” (We are now
murdering and raping history…and the accurate definition of words).
According to authorities the statues will be stored until a place can be found
to display them “in the proper context.” Lee Circle itself will soon be
renamed. It appears likely that it will once again be called ‘Tivoli’ Circle
(‘I lov it’ spelled backwards!), its ‘original’ name.
The
“proper context” in which to display these statues will likely prove to be a
massive jar of urine or the inside of the world’s largest tampon if progressive’s
past history is any indication.
In
related news, Lee Jeans, the venerable American trouser manufacturer, has announced
that it will henceforth be called “the Union Jeans Company,” to avoid
inadvertently offending anyone “except maybe a few old crackers who nobody
cares about anyway.” Insiders report that it was originally going to rebrand
itself as the “Free Jeans Company,” but a few higher-ups thought that customers
would be led to believe that the pants themselves cost nothing.
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