Confederate monuments

Former President Donald Trump correctly predicted years ago that the far-left would eventually go after the Founding Fathers — something that came to fruition Tuesday, as officials in New York City considered a measure which would remove works of art depicting those who owned slaves or benefitted from slavery. That, of course, would include the Father of the Nation, George Washington.

A debate is emerging over whether to preserve or destroy the Confederate monument that is soon be removed from Arlington National Cemetery.

The Northern California city of Fort Bragg, California, will remain named after a Confederate general after local leaders could not reach consensus after a public participation process, with many locals wishing to keep the name for historic reasons.

On Monday, Democrats in New York removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall, and here are some delicious screenshots of the media promising that would never happen.

The Democrat-led House on Tuesday voted to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol — a move House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) mocked Democrats for, accusing them of attempting to hide their party’s “shameful” racist past.

Washington and Lee University’s (W&L) Board of Trustees voted in a 22-6 decision to keep the school’s Robert E. Lee namesake, but also promised to “expand diversity and inclusion initiatives and make changes to campus buildings, practices, and governance.”

A bill to rename “Jefferson Davis Highway” on U.S. Route 1 to “Emancipation Highway” passed the Virginia Senate Thursday in a 30-9 vote.

Virginia Commonwealth University announced this week that it may rename several buildings on campus over their ties to figures that were associated with the Confederacy. At least six buildings on campus have been targeted for renaming over concerns about their ties to the Confederacy.

A Democrat Virginia state senator has been charged with two felonies for her involvement in the destruction of a Confederate monument during a protest in Portsmouth, according to local authorities.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) introduced a privileged resolution on Thursday that calls upon Congress to ban the Democrat Party supporting slavery and the Confederate States of America, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said Fox News host Tucker Carlson called her a “moron” and a “coward,” because she is “Asian-American.”

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” President Donald Trump said he opposed renaming military bases that were named for Confederate leaders.

Friday at a round table discussion with Black community leaders at Creative Visions in Des Moines, IA, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said she supported renaming military bases that honor Confederate generals even though Republican voter’s in her home state are giving her “crap.”

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell said President Donald Trump did not understand history when he supports leaving statues of Confederate generals in public places and not renaming military bases named after Confederates.

Work crews ventured to the heart of Richmond, Virginia, where they removed the statue of Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday, one week after the city’s mayor ordered all Confederate monuments on city property be removed.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) believes Congress, not woke mobs, should address the controversy over Confederate symbols in the United States.

Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.

Monday during an appearance on “TMZ Live,” comedian D.L. Hughley accused white Americans of “fighting for monuments,” which he argued were reminders of Black people’s “pain.”

A statue in west Michigan depicting Union and Confederate soldiers and a child holding a “Freedom to Slaves” sign has been vandalized after a leftist group demanded it be torn down.

Thursday, during an interview with Washington Post national political reporter Robert Costa, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was “glorifying white supremacy” by not wanting to rename U.S. military bases named after members of the Confederacy.

Crews removed two Confederate monuments in Raleigh, North Carolina, Saturday morning after protesters wrecked the two bronze soldiers which stood atop the 75-foot Confederate monument at the capitol Friday night.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wondered this week if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should consider changing the name of the Democrat Party given her newfound commitment to purging the U.S. Capitol of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that four portraits of former speakers, all Democrats who served in the Confederacy, be removed.

How about a bill withholding all federal funds from Yale University until it changes its name? The school’s namesake, Elihu Yale, was not only a slave owner, but a slave trader.

One in three voters believes that the United States is could face another civil war soon, as unrest rages across the country over issues of race, policing, and the upcoming presidential election.

Monday on MSNBC, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) called on Confederate monuments across this country in 31 states to be removed to support equality “for all African-Americans in this country.”

Protesters in Louisiana and Tennessee are calling for the elimination of Confederate monument, and in their place, they want statues erected of pop star Britney Spears and country icon Dolly Parton.

In a Sunday interview on MSNBC’s “Kasie DC,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) discussed her legislation to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Jake Tapper commented on President Donald Trump’s desire to leave military bases named after Confederate leaders.

A Michigan group that has targeted God in the public square is now seeking to tear down a monument depicting a freed black child that honors the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday evening to pass an amendment offered by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to rename several U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals.

Protesters on Wednesday evening beheaded four statues on a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, after the monument was defaced with spray paint hours earlier. Protesters told on-scene reporters that one man was badly injured after one of the toppled statues fell on his head.

The Navy’s top admiral has ordered that the Confederate battle flag be prohibited from display on naval bases, ships, aircraft, and submarines.

A deed signed in 1890 that gave Virginia control of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond prevents its removal, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

All confederate monuments in Jacksonville, Florida, will soon be taken down, Mayor Lenny Curry said Tuesday at a protest outside City Hall.

Protester Zachary Bornstein was arrested on felony charges of defacing a monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi on Saturday. Bornstein reportedly teaches geometry to junior high school students in Hollandale, Mississippi. In response to the vandalism, the university has decided to relocate the monument.