Much pride last night in Madison, Wisconsin as the warriors for a just world strike against White Supremacy:
And I guess you are like me when I found this thread: Who was Hans Christian Heg? He was a Norwegian immigrant who settled in Wisconsin, was rabidly anti-slavery, became member of the Free Soil Party (Future Republican party) and became an Union Colonel during the Civil War laying his life down for the cause.
So why was his statue brought down and tossed in a lake like it was trash? No idea. If I were to hazard a guess, somebody did a Google search, read “republican” and that was all they needed for an excuse to do the Taliban thing.
A reminder: Those ropes they are using will need to be fed again and there are not that many statues. Something else will be found as substitute. And it will ne kind of ironic coming from the crowd that shits bricks at non-existing nooses in a NASCAR garage.
He was white. That’s all the excuse they need.
The bust of Miguel Cervantes was desecrated in San Francisco. He was a writer who never set foot in the New World and was an actual slave to the Barbary Pirates for 5 years. But he had to go too.
I suppose the terrorists would say Cervantes doesn’t count because (a) he wasn’t black, and (b) his slavers weren’t white.
Ah yes… Madison, WI. Home to easily-offended dbags since approx. 1990.
RME