When people steal your property you have a natural right to seize it back.
People raised money to pay for the memorials stolen from the public square. They were entrusted to the city, nobody thought the city would turn into a den of thieves.
The thieves understand very well what they've done, that's why they spirited their stolen loot to Los Angeles, California, out of reach of Confederate supporters.
It cost them millions to transport their loot to California where they now display it in a Museum of Stolen Art.
They tried to get the memorials back through the courts and the courts said "we can't hear you, you have no standing to complain. The property belongs to the city".
It was given to the city ON TRUST to keep safe for future generations. Not to destroy and ship to California.
Massive breach of trust. It's truly barbaric. By this reasoning no city is safe, the city authorities can just steal everything and sell it off and nobody can complain.
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This is one of the leading American historians of all time.
He reports that Cinque, the leader of the Amistad captives, went back to West Africa and became a slave trader, capturing blacks and selling them for profit.
Also see this book about slaves who were freed, worked hard and saved money, and bought their own slaves. Some owned many slaves, hundreds of them.
He was sold into slavery. Later in life he became a slave trader himself, according to Samuel Eliot Morison's account. While Morison's report is contested, none of those contesting it have any evidence to the contrary.
Did you hear the one about the slave who freed himself by drafting his own writ, finding his own legal precedents, and going down to the Court of Session to file his case to free himself in 18th century Scotland?
He argued his own case and won! An illiterate slave with no help.
BBC made a film about him - notice how they carefully insist that he did indeed free himself. He didn't have help from anyone.
[He had no lawyers! We cancelled all his lawyers for being racists and ERASED them from the story!]
Yes, most extraordinary. An illiterate slave with no help arguing cases all the way to the highest court in the land. Extraordinary is the right word to describe that.
"Kuklux Klan spread across Tennessee to other former Confederate states. Their activities escalated into domestic terrorism as they committed acts of violence and murder against newly freed African-Americans and their property."
Oh, poor blacks! I'm sure they didn't do nothing.
The blacks were innocent! They didn't do nothing.
KKK just decided to terrorize innocent blacks for no reason whatsoever!
Must have been just racism and white supremacy, of course, right?
You know how whites are. They would just wake up one morning and for no reason whatsoever say to each other "let's go attack some blacks!"
Yes, yes, that must be what happened. Poor innocent blacks. Always being attacked when they didn't do nothing.
Equity laws in South Africa are using quotas to exclude white people from employment.
"The EEA amendment applies to all businesses who employ more than 50 people. They are to submit plans detailing how their companies will achieve stipulated equity targets."
The equity targets are set by the government (minister of employment and labour) and it's mandatory for employers to comply.
Fines for non-compliance range between ZAR 1.5 million or 2% of the employer's annual turnover, up to ZAR 2.7 million or 10% of annual turnover.
They have to fill in government paperwork reporting their racial composition, to ensure compliance.
A- Africans. C- coloureds. I- Indians. W- whites.
They must report how many of each race they have employed.
This is why Asheville had the Vance memorial crushed to dust and chemically destroyed so not a single speck would remain that could be retrieved by the families.
They are corrupt, thieving, and malicious to boot. And they parade themselves as the "good" and "moral" people.
If they had any honor they'd say to the families "we don't think we want to keep this memorial, come and get it".
Instead they destroy them or sell them off and keep the money.
They even remove gravestones from cemeteries and "disappear" them.