Duke University Removes Statue of Confederate General

Duke University Removes Statue of Confederate General

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Saturday, 19 Aug 2017 08:30 AM


Duke University has removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee days after it was vandalized.

The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness early Saturday morning from Duke Chapel amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. A statue of Lee was at the heart of a violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly a week ago.

University president Vincent Price said in a letter to the campus community that he consulted with faculty, staff, students and alumni about the decision to remove the statue. Officials discovered early Thursday that the statue's face had been damaged by vandalism. Lee was among 10 historical figures depicted at the chapel.

On Monday in downtown Durham, a bronze Confederate statue was torn down by demonstrators.


Duke University Removes Statue of General Lee

The statue was removed at 3:00 a.m. under the cover of darkness. :mad:

It was vandalized, so now has to be stored and sculptor hired to restore it. What a shame.

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Breathtaking Confederate Monument Hypocrisy at Duke University


BY D. C. MCALLISTER
AUGUST 19, 2017
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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons. Photo: Bluedog423 Sculpture: Edward Virginius Valentine (1838-1930)

Duke University has cowered to political pressure and is removing the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from its chapel. The snowflake students don’t want it, so this paragon of higher learning is bowing to the will of the propagandized.

Here’s the thing. If Duke is going to be consistent (and I’m conceding leftists rarely are), they need to scurry on over to East Campus and tear down the statue of George Washington Duke because he was a Confederate soldier and, according to Robert Durden, author of The Dukes of Durham, owned a slave named Caroline whom he bought for $601. He also hired a slave from a neighbor to work on his tobacco farm.

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Read the rest at this link.
https://www.alipac.us/f9/black-pastor-wants-george-washington-name-statue-removed-public-park-349704/#post1562729

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...8e&oe=5A2F7D35

YES, Newmexican, all 100% true and information that should be spread far and wide so the people know the truth about who did what and who didn't.

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Originally Posted by Judy

It was vandalized, so now has to be stored and sculptor hired to restore it. What a shame.

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It wasn't stored because of the damage. Repairs could have been made where it was. There are no plans to return it. The removal is permanent and there has been nothing said concerning repairs. I've read several stories on this.

The rush to erase the history of this country marches on. The supposed motive is slavery that occurred over 200 years ago. So with the slavery still being practiced across the world with no outcry from these same people, on can only think that it has to do with trying to erase the history of the current culture, not individuals from the past.

Slavery has come back to America after a hard fought battle to eradicate it in the form of illegal immigration and all of the vice and sex traffic that accompanies it.

This is from 2013. How many new immigrant slaves have been imported here since then?

This map shows where the world’s 30 million slaves live. There are 60,000 in the U.S.

By Max Fisher
October 17, 2013
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Share of each country's population that is enslaved. Click to enlarge. Data source: Walk Free Global Slavery Index. (Max Fisher/The Washington Post)

We think of slavery as a practice of the past, an image from Roman colonies or 18th-century American plantations, but the practice of enslaving human beings as property still exists. There are 29.8 million people living as slaves right now, according to a comprehensive new report issued by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation.

This is not some softened, by-modern-standards definition of slavery. These 30 million people are living as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages and, in all ways that matter, as pieces of property, chattel in the servitude of absolute ownership. Walk Free investigated 162 countries and found slaves in every single one. But the practice is far worse in some countries than others.

The country where you are most likely to be enslaved is Mauritania. Although this vast West African nation has tried three times to outlaw slavery within its borders, it remains so common that it is nearly normal. The report estimates that four percent of Mauritania is enslaved – one out of every 25 people. (The aid group SOS Slavery, using a broader definition of slavery, estimated several years ago that as many as 20 percent of Mauritanians might be enslaved.)

The map at the top of this page shows almost every country in the world colored according to the share of its population that is enslaved. The rate of slavery is also alarmingly high in Haiti, in Pakistan and in India, the world's second-most populous country. In all three, more than 1 percent of the population is estimated to live in slavery.

A few trends are immediately clear from the map up top. First, rich, developed countries tend to have by far the lowest rates of slavery. The report says that effective government policies, rule of law, political stability and development levels all make slavery less likely. The vulnerable are less vulnerable, those who would exploit them face higher penalties and greater risk of getting caught. A war, natural disaster or state collapse is less likely to force helpless children or adults into bondage. Another crucial factor in preventing slavery is discrimination. When society treats women, ethnic groups or religious minorities as less valuable or less worthy of protection, they are more likely to become slaves.

Then there are the worst-affected regions. Sub-Saharan Africa is a swath of red, with many countries having roughly 0.7 percent of the population enslaved -- or one in every 140 people. The legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism are still playing out in the region; ethnic divisions and systems of economic exploitation engineered there during the colonial era are still, to some extent, in place. Slavery is also driven by extreme poverty, high levels of corruption and toleration of child "marriages" of young girls to adult men who pay their parents a "dowry."

Two other bright red regions are Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. Both are blighted particularly by sex trafficking, a practice that bears little resemblance to popular Western conceptions of prostitution. Women and men are coerced into participating, often starting at a very young age, and are completely reliant on their traffickers for not just their daily survival but basic life choices; they have no say in where they go or what they do and are physically prevented from leaving. International sex traffickers have long targeted these two regions, whose women and men are prized for their skin tones and appearance by Western patrons.

Here, to give you a different perspective of slavery's scope, is a map of the world showing the number of slaves living in each country:

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The number of slaves in each country. Click to enlarge. Data source: Walk Free Global Slavery Index. (Max Fisher/The Washington Post)

Yes, this map can be a little misleading. The United States, per capita, has a very low rate of slavery: just 0.02 percent, or one in every 5,000 people. But that adds up to a lot: an estimated 60,000 slaves, right here in America.

If your goal is to have as few slaves as possible -- Walk Free says it is working to eradicate the practice in one generation's time -- then this map is very important, because it shows you which countries have the most slaves and thus which governments can do the most to reduce the global number of slaves. In that sense, the United States could stand to do a lot.

You don't have to go far to see slavery in America. Here in Washington, D.C., you can sometimes spot them on certain streets, late at night. Not all sex workers or "prostitutes" are slaves, of course; plenty have chosen the work voluntarily and can leave it freely. But, as the 2007 documentary "Very Young Girls" demonstrated, many are coerced into participating at a young age and gradually shifted into a life that very much resembles slavery.

A less visible but still prevalent form of slavery in America involves illegal migrant laborers who are lured with the promise of work and then manipulated into forced servitude, living without wages or freedom of movement, under constant threat of being turned over to the police should they let up in their work. Walk Free cites "a highly developed criminal economy that preys on economic migrants, trafficking and enslaving them." That economy stretches from the migrants' home countries right to the United States.

The country that is most marked by slavery, though, is clearly India. There are an estimated 14 million slaves in India – it would be as if the entire population of Pennsylvania were forced into slavery. The country suffers deeply from all major forms of slavery, according to the report. Forced labor is common, due in part to a system of hereditary debt bondage; many Indian children are born "owing" sums they could never possibly pay to masters who control them as chattel their entire lives. Others fall into forced labor when they move to a different region looking for work, and turn to an unlicensed "broker" who promises work but delivers them into servitude. The country's caste system and widespread discrimination abet social norms that make it easier to turn a blind eye to the problem. Women and girls from underprivileged classes are particularly vulnerable to sexual slavery, whether under the guise of "child marriages" or not, although men and boys often fall victim as well.

One of the world's most vulnerable populations for enslavement is Haitian children. Haiti has the world's second-highest rate of slavery -- 2.1 percent, or about one in every 48 people, many of them underage. There's even a word for it: "restaveks," from the colonial French for "reste avec" or "stay with." Traditionally, the word refers to a poor family sending their child to live with and work for a wealthier family. Often it is innocuous. But it can also encompass parents who feel they have no choice, typically because they have no income other than what they derive from selling their children into forced labor conditions that strongly resemble slavery. About one in 10 Haitian children are believed to participate. Those who run away, according to the report, are often "trafficked into forced begging and commercial sexual exploitation."

What's perhaps most amazing about the prevalence of slavery around the world is how similar it can look across very different societies. The risk factors might change from one place to another, the causes varying widely, but the lives of the enslaved rarely do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.eeb7650130aa

Mexico had the largest slave market in the Americas in Vera Cruz. Slavery was not exclusive to the US and in fact is still practiced in 30 countries globally.

I am offended that there are statues of Benito Juarez statues in Houston,Texas, Washington DC, Chicago and New York. There is no need to memorialize a past president of Mexico on our soil,especially one that financed a war with us. The statue in Chicago was placed there by the Mexican government..

http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/images/1x1.gif President of Mexico (Served 5 terms) Benito Juarez, Zapoteca 1806-1872

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President Benito Juarez famous quote 1800s:"Between individuals, as between nations, peace means respect for the rights of others." Aboriginal North American Indians are proud of their indigenous "full-blood" leader who served five terms as the President of Mexico. President Benito Juarez was born in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1806. He studied law at the Instituto de Ciencias y Artes and was a strong defender of Mexico's indigenous peoples. He also served as the governor of Oaxaca during his distinguished political career. MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR 1846-1848 As a federal representative of Mexico, Benito Juarez was instrumental in approving Mexican financing of the 1846 Mexican-American War that ended in 1848 with The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This is the treaty that among other things established the current US-Mexico border. Submitted by Juan Mendez, Zapoteca, professional Native American firefighter. http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/famous_indian_chiefs/benito_juarez/

United States[edit]

• Benito Juarez Community Academy, Chicago, Illinois
• Benito Juarez (Alciati), a sculpture in Washington, D.C.
• Benito Juárez (Martinez), a sculpture in Houston, Texas
• Benito Juárez (Orozco), a sculpture in Bryant Park in Manhattan, New York
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito...isambiguation)

If we are getting rid of Benito, let's add Lenin. He murdered millions of people.

List of statues of Vladimir Lenin

United States[edit]

• Las Vegas - outside Red Square Restaurant, Mandalay Bay Hotel - Headless
• Atlantic City, New Jersey - in the Tropicana Casino^[2]
• New York City - on top of the Red Square apartment building, E. Houston St. in the East Village^[3]
• Seattle - Fremont neighborhood (See Statue of Lenin (Seattle))
• Head of Lenin, Los Angeles, California - outside a branch of the Ace Gallery, the Ace Museum, on the corner of La Brea Avenue and 4th Street.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...Vladimir_Lenin

See Also;
https://www.alipac.us/f19/communist-statues-usa-349694/

All this is due to the obamas, holders and the like - misused their office & filled the country with hate & divisive results including much disrespect for police and the white race. Disgraceful. Given education and job preferential treatment, only to be nasty/hateful in return.

People need to consider the times of all events in history. Many more people came here as indentured servants from Europe than African slaves - resulting in all their tickets to America otherwise they would have remained in their home countries.

Should we destroy every piece of antique Victoriana because the ugly queen victoria committed genocide on the Irish people thru starvation? To die with all your children the painful death of starvation while she collected all foods grown in Ireland for britain; there is no affirmative action payback either. Should the British government and people pay every Irish person NOW for what she did? The jews were enslaved by the egyptians for hundreds of years and many more genocides have happened thruout time elsewhere....
when will this conjob in America end?

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Originally Posted by MW

It wasn't stored because of the damage. Repairs could have been made where it was. There are no plans to return it. The removal is permanent and there has been nothing said concerning repairs. I've read several stories on this.

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Yes, I'm sure the removal is permanent. They said they were removing it to protect the Chapel from vandalism, but they'll repair the sculpture and store it somewhere. They aren't going to haul it to the dump.

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Originally Posted by Judy

Yes, I'm sure the removal is permanent. They said they were removing it to protect the Chapel from vandalism, but they'll repair the sculpture and store it somewhere. They aren't going to haul it to the dump.

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Nothing said about repairing it or hauling it to the dump. I'm sure it will be stored somehere, however, I don't know if repairing it is currently in the plan .... nothing said about that.