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As Atlanta’s first African-American mayor and a major player in the civil rights movement, you may expect Andrew Young to be in favor of tearing Confederate memorials down. However, in a statement that must have horrified race-baiters from coast to coast, Young said that his city had better things to do that worry about taking down statues.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Young made the remarks at a news conference earlier this week in which he endorsed Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell to be the next mayor..

The news conference came amid nationwide calls from liberal figures to tear down Confederate statues and memorials, including one from Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to remove a carving of three Confederate war figures — Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis — on Georgia’s Stone Mountain.

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“We must never celebrate those who defended slavery and tried to destroy the union,” Abrams wrote on Twitter, saying that the monument “remains a blight on our state and should be removed.”

Young, a Democrat who was mayor of Atlanta from 1982 to 1990 and also served as a congressman and our ambassador to the United Nations under the Carter administration, disagreed.

“I think it’s too costly to refight the Civil War,” Young said. “We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together.”

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“I’ve always been interested more in substance over symbols,” Young said, adding that similar arguments could be made about the American flag.

“If the truth be known, we’ve had as much agony but also glory under the United States flag,” he said. “That flew over segregated America, it flew over slavery.”

Naturally, liberals were horrified.

Mr. Andrew Young’s comments on Confederate symbols is simply absurd.
With all due respect ; I was shocked he’d say something so stupid.

— Charles Micheaux (@MicheauxFilm) August 17, 2017

In the communities we live and raise our children we should not have to look up and see the evil hateful image of a Robert E. Lee!

— Charles Micheaux (@MicheauxFilm) August 17, 2017

That’s missing the point.

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Young’s argument that there are few historical symbols in this world that are of unalloyed historical good seems to have escaped the left, which is now moving from Confederate memorials to statues of men like Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Heck, they’ve already been going after Old Glory for quite some time now.

However, for those of us not in thrall to the far left, Young’s words should have resonance.

This is a man who has seen division unlike any most of us have ever experienced. He’s seen our nation’s history, including some of its darkest chapters — and he thinks that this needs to be preserved. There are far bigger issues in this country than tearing down statues. Statue removal will not solve the problems of the African-American community. As much as it these memorials may be a convenient scapegoat for leaders, erasing our history will do nothing to ameliorate race relations or provide opportunities for minorities.

It’s time for us to admit that.

H/T PJ Media 

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Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson reacted to Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon’s departure from the White House earlier in the day.

Carlson said while the West Wing may be a “more placid place” now, there were questions about the politics of those by which President Donald Trump is surrounded in Bannon’s absence.

“The White House will be a much more placid place now that he’s gone,” Carlson said. “The question is will it be a better place? Let’s put it this way — Bannon was one of the relatively few senior staff in the White House who wouldn’t feel at home in a Hillary Clinton administration. Indeed, he was one of the rare Republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. That’s strange since populist conservatism is the platform his boss ran on.”

Carlson told his viewers Bannon was one of those in the Trump administration that remembered why Trump was elected last November.

“Say what you will about Steve Bannon,” he added. “And you can say a lot, but he never forgot why Trump got elected in the first place and in a democracy that is not a small thing. Bannon kept a white board in his office of campaign promises. It’s probably already been taken down by now.”

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On Monday alt-Left thugs toppled an historic Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina.

The criminal mob, led by Takiyah Thompson, tied a strap around the statue and tore it down.

#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown http://pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC

— Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017

on Tuesday Takiya (or Takiyah) Thompson was arrested as she left the communications building at North Carolina Central University.

BREAKING: Takiya Thompson, woman who admits to climbing and helping bring down a Confederate statue in Durham, is arrested. #WRAL http://pic.twitter.com/vfoIsnhwRj

— Adam Owens (@AdamOwensTV) August 15, 2017

Now the university wants to give the alt-left thug a scholarship for her criminal actions.

These are the immoral, intolerant goons teaching your children.

The Daily Caller reported:

The student charged with pushing down the Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina on Monday may be rewarded with a scholarship for her actions from North Carolina Central University.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Wednesday that proposals are being made at the college to award Takiyah Thompson, who has been charged with two felonies—participation in a riot and inciting others to riot—for her actions.

News that Thompson was involved in the demonstration was reportedly met with widespread support from campus faculty and students in her Introduction to Political Science class.

“I saw the demonstration and the toppling of the monument. I think it’s a healthy thing for students to have a voice and to be leaders in activism,” said Jim C. Harper II, chair of the history department. “We’re going to do everything we can to support Ms. Thompson.”

Her professor, Allan Cooper, said that the entire class applauded when he revealed to them that Thompson was the person charged with toppling the statue. Following the news, Cooper sent an email to the chair to propose giving Thompson a scholarship.

The unfolding war on statues is unlike anything that has ever been seen in this once-great country.

Hordes of crazed leftists have been using bullying, guerilla tactics, economic terrorism, and most of all the threat of violence to force the removal of any and all Confederate monuments in America.

Local and state governments and universities haven’t even bothered to put up a fight against the demands of those who are behaving like Nazis and fascists who will never be satisfied until they have enforced a Khmer Rouge “Year Zero” form of governance on U.S. soil.

The latest to surrender? Duke University, famous for the Blue Devils college basketball team and a bogus story of campus rape published by the leftist rag Rolling Stone.

The university quickly moved to appease the fanatics and took down the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Saturday morning.

JUST IN: Duke University takes down statue of Robert E. Lee https://t.co/dRceXSvyIh http://pic.twitter.com/XVJKEF6gqQ

— The Hill (@thehill) August 19, 2017

The Hill is reporting “Duke University takes down statue of Lee”:

Duke University has removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its campus amid an intensifying national debate over Confederate statues and monuments.

The university said it took the statue down from its perch in Duke Chapel early Saturday morning, three days after it had been damaged by vandalism.

In an email to students, faculty, staff and alumni Saturday morning, University President Vincent Price said he chose to have the statue removed to protect the chapel and its parishioners, and to “express the deep and abiding values of our university.”

The Lee statue will be preserved to allow students to “study Duke’s complex past and take part in a more inclusive future,” he said.

“Wednesday night’s act of vandalism made clear that the turmoil and turbulence of recent months do not stop at Duke’s gates,” Price said in the statement. “We have a responsibility to come together as a community to determine how we can respond to this unrest in a way that demonstrates our firm commitment to justice, not discrimination; to civil protest, not violence; to authentic dialogue, not rhetoric; and to empathy, not hatred.”

Lofty language from Mr. Price but he is caving to the haters to whom the last thing that they will ever accept is “authentic” dialogue and the Confederate statues are only the beginning.

Yet another coward who is unfit to head the institution that signs his paychecks and has tarnished Duke’s good name for surrendering to those using terrorist tactics.