Poll of the Day > Trump says Black Americans should learn HISTORY or they will go back to SLAVERY

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Trump said in an interview with his favourite network, Fox News that black people who want statues of slave owners and Confederate figures removed should LEARN FROM THE HISTORY or risk going RIGHT BACK TO IT sometime as he made the suggestion that the era of "slavery" could return if they keep removing history from their "heritage"

Calls to remove statues of racists have been mounting since the death of George Floyd as protesters have defaced or brought them down themselves

But Trump is urging them to "think again" particularly black americans because he said "we should learn from history" and said "My message is that we have a great country, we have the greatest country on earth. We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you don't understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and you're going to go back to it sometime. People won't know about it. They're going to forget about it, it's okay. You have to understand history, and our culture and so many other aspects. But you cant take down George Washington. Here is the other problem that i have, a lot of these people don't even know what they are taking down. I see what's happening on tv and they are ripping down things they have no idea what they are ripping down, but they started off with the Confederates and now go to Ulysses Grant so what's all that about? Grant"

Grant beat the confederates and ended the Civil War before becoming President but also married into a famliy that owned SLAVES!

Trump has said protecting statues is now his high priority in policy and made an executive order aimed at protecting monuments and threatens long prison sentences for lawless acts against their country and said "Now they're looking at Jesus Christ, not going to happen. not going to happen while i'm here"

On saturday he tweeted 15 "wanted" posters of protesters who tried to topple Andrew Jackson, the populist who admirers say reformed Washington DC and is a hero of Trump..despite him being a slave owner who championed "Trail of Tears" forcing native americans west of Mississippi.

This also comes just as Trump tweeted and deleted a Villages Video of his geriatric trailer trash supporters fighting against protesters as one yells out "White Power" causing much outrage and the president claims he didn't hear it despite it being in teh first 20 seconds

Trump said he was open go erecting new statues to "great people" and says you shouldn't take away their heritage and history and beauty of these famous confederate men and said they were american heroes who deserve to be praised..

Do you agree with Trump that these confederate soldiers should be "praised"?

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Erasing history is a great way of forgetting history.

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Typical shit excuse of white supremacists. Who the fuck learns history from statues? Go read a book.

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Zeus posted...

Erasing history is a great way of forgetting history.

By erasing history you wouldnt mean the confederate statues that were built in the 1920s, 55+ years after the end of the civil war, during the height of the KKK popularity. Those statues are now being torn down.

I know thats not the history you believe is getting erased, right?

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Well, they probably shouldnt be PRAISED but they shouldnt be forgotten.

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mrduckbear posted...

says you shouldn't take away their heritage and history and beauty of these famous confederate men and said they were american heroes who deserve to be praised..

Didn't they succeed from the US?
How would they be American heroes?

Like I'm aware there's more to even just North America than the US, but I doubt he's thinking in those terms.

From the wikipedia:

In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States;

What do those statues teach? That we have people who still fondly look upon slavery and treason.

Zeus posted...

Erasing history is a great way of forgetting history.

What history is being erased? What do these statues tell that can't be found on even just the Wikipedia page for the Civil War, let alone any quarter-assed effort at genuine education?

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History books and museums tell history.

Statues honor history.

Removing statues does not make us forget about slavery, it just removes the thing that glorifies it.

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SeahorseCpt89 posted...

History books and museums tell history.

Statues honor history.

Removing statues does not make us forget about slavery, it just removes the thing that glorifies it.

Heck, if you really want to educate people about slavery with a statue, put up a statue that depicts it in place of the ones that just depict some guy with no context. As an added bonus, that's likely to be a lot more artistically interesting than another simple human statue, as well as being a nice way of getting around the issue that humans are humans and every historical figure has done some bad things at some point in their life that shouldn't be glorified.

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Its like he heard "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" and completely misunderstood what it meant

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I don't think they should be praised.

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why is every day a damn race war? I'm tired of the bickering. love one another and ****** figure it out. stop acting so dumb and putting up fits

I see in tearing down the Ulysses grant statue he now admits the reason why they were tearing down the confederate ones.

This is how you do politics successfully in America. Someone has to take it 5 steps too far so the "meet in the middle" position is where it should have been all along.

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Wouldn't forgetting history and repeating it mean America would be great again? He should be pro tearing down statues then.

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HornedLion posted...

By erasing history you wouldnt mean the confederate statues that were built in the 1920s, 55+ years after the end of the civil war, during the height of the KKK popularity. Those statues are now being torn down.

I know thats not the history you believe is getting erased, right?

Zeus is a neo-nazi. He still has never denied the multiple users that've called him out. Or his defense of the neo-nazi protests.

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Zeus posted...

Erasing history is a great way of forgetting history.

Please explain how the act of removing statues is erasing history. Im sure weve all forgotten about Hitler because there are no statues of him to remind us right?

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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Please explain how the act of removing statues is erasing history. Im sure weve all forgotten about Hitler because there are no statues of him to remind us right?

zeus has 50+ alts, you're pissing in the wind trying to reason with him, ok?

the poor old guy said he worked for the dod, but he forgot he made that up due to his progressing alzheimer's, ok? i mean, he doesn't even have any loved ones, so we're all he has left.

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The strangest thing is when he's right by pure random chance.

World history might be what saves everybody, just being aware of what happened, and what to do about it.

It's not what he MEANT, but...

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so black people are supposed to forget about slavery while white people(some of them)want to keep reminders of slavery fresh in their minds by keeping statues around?and btw,trump is really doing everything NOT TO BE RE-ELECTED,but his trust rest solely on his doorknob brained supporters.**** those statues,go and visit stone mountain if you want to worship those racist ****ers,and i hope a meteor hits that.

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teddy241 posted...

why is every day a damn race war? I'm tired of the bickering. love one another and ****** figure it out. stop acting so dumb and putting up fits

because of people like your idiotic president,who continues to tweet and throw gas onto the inferno.ive NEVER seen anything like this before.

This coming from a president that doesn't like to read intelligent briefings

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HornedLion posted...

By erasing history you wouldnt mean the confederate statues that were built in the 1920s, 55+ years after the end of the civil war, during the height of the KKK popularity. Those statues are now being torn down.

I know thats not the history you believe is getting erased, right?

...he ignorantly claims, parroting propaganda he heard from people who expertly got in his head. But let's play your little game for a second. What year did the Lincoln Memorial go up? Was it:
A) 1865, the year of his death?
B) 1875, ten years after this death?
C) 1922, the same year those other statues were going up?

Survey says.... 1922! You know, 55+ years after the war. Oh shit, guess that means we gotta tear it down now, right? Because it wasn't built within the statute of limitations?

adjl posted...

What history is being erased? What do these statues tell that can't be found on even just the Wikipedia page for the Civil War, let alone any quarter-assed effort at genuine education?

The history of the Civil War, duh. Statues are one of the few truly enduring pieces of history.

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For some reason I feel like black people have been treated badly in the US for hundreds of years.

If only those statues were up I could remember...

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Zeus posted...

The history of the Civil War, duh.

I asked two questions in that post. You answered one. The second invalidates your answer to the first, unless you can satisfactorily answer it.

Wow the president is actually threatening to bring back slavery

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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

Please explain how the act of removing statues is erasing history. Im sure weve all forgotten about Hitler because there are no statues of him to remind us right?

Just to be clear having statues up celebrating men who are notable only for evil ideas is what they want you to learn. They want people to know their place and they are afraid of people being able to finally move past it. It's why the statues were put up in the first place, to reinforce segregation.

Zeus posted...

...he ignorantly claims, parroting propaganda he heard from people who expertly got in his head. But let's play your little game for a second. What year did the Lincoln Memorial go up? Was it:
A) 1865, the year of his death?
B) 1875, ten years after this death?
C) 1922, the same year those other statues were going up?

Survey says.... 1922! You know, 55+ years after the war. Oh shit, guess that means we gotta tear it down now, right? Because it wasn't built within the statute of limitations?

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HornedLion posted...

this has been zeus' game since day 1 here, he's incapable of refuting facts or debating of any sort, ok?

its why i blocked him, the man is a danger to himself and others, ok?

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ClarkDuke posted...

this has been zeus' game since day 1 here, he's incapable of refuting facts or debating of any sort, ok?

its why i blocked him, the man is a danger to himself and others, ok?

Oh so you didn't see that picture he just posted of him accusing someone of what he engages in?

BlackScythe0 posted...

Oh so you didn't see that picture he just posted of him accusing someone of what he engages in?

share it, ok?

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ClarkDuke posted...

share it, ok?

Scrolling up I see that was someone quoting Zeus. I feel very dumb right now.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Scrolling up I see that was someone quoting Zeus. I feel very dumb right now.

don't feel dumb, at least you aren't zeus, ok?

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