Posted on 08/20/2017 4:15:45 PM PDT by God luvs America
Liberals want the removal of all statues/etc the refer to "hate". Let's demand all statues, bridges, etc with the name of FDR be torn down, changed, etc. FDR, liberal icon responsible for ripping tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans from their homes, businesses, etc and sticking them in internment camps!!! Tell comrade Diblasio to rename the crap hole FDR parkway now!!!
The statues and monuments and streets and schools to be remved are those named Martin Luther King jr.
The Charlottesville blood is on his dead hands
all Kennedy memorials must be brought down.
And KKK Byrd of WVA too!!
That could take a while.
FDR is a racist who hated the Japanese.
The dog needs to go because he never spoke out against his owner. Thus, silence is another form of consent.
But, if silence is a form on consent then any city/state (e.g. New York) that was named after someone who was alive during the era of the European slave trade to the US needs to be changed. After all they either engaged in the trade or, at least, didn’t speak out against it.
Also, cities (e.g. Seattle) that were named after American Indians should be reviewed and changed. Many of the tribes kept slaves.
The list is endless on what should be taken down or have names changed.
bttt
FDR had been asked in 1941 about how he would like to be memorialized. In 1965, twenty years after his death, a very modest memorial was dedicated on the lawn in front of the Archives Building near the corner of 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue according to his explicit wishes. The engraved words on the memorial say "In Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945". A plaque in front of the memorial gives fuller details:
In September 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called his friend, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, to the White House and asked the Justice to remember the wish he then expressed: "If any memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain without any ornamentation, with the simple carving, 'In Memory of ____'." A small group of living associates of the President, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial
Statues? How ‘bout every bill/reg/declaration/etc. signed by FDR be null/void instead? /semi-s
Jackson,Wilson and LBJ have to go!
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to support an antilynching bill proposed by the NAACP, fearing that key Southerners lawmakers would retaliate and interfere with his New Deal agenda.
Don’t forget Woodrow Wilson.
Or LBJ!
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