Should the TSBD be demolished?

[Gerry Down]

The first George Floyd statue is already here:

[Steve M. Galbraith]

You missed out an important word in your reply to Rick's post, Richard.

"And you take issue with me criticising JFK while you defended  Owald  who "ALLEGEDLY"  murdered him."


Just to remind you, Oswald  was never tried for the crime,  no matter what you say.

Conspiracy believers - there are thousands of posts by them here and at the other conspiracy sites across the internet - regularly state that "LBJ killed Kennedy" or "Marina lied to the WC" or "Ruth Paine killed Oswald for the CIA" and on and on. Thousands and thousands of claims all of sorts of crimes by people who allegedly framed Oswald. For more than half a century.

Do you take exception to those claims even though they were never proven in court?

Besides, people make statements about historic figures committing crimes - Booth killed JFK Lincoln - that weren't proven in court. Everyone recognizes what is meant. The 9/11 hijackers were never convicted in court. Does that mean someone shouldn't say "Atta flew one of the planes into the tower"? Nixon was never convicted of a crime either. Nobody says Nixon didn't obstruct justice because he was never convicted of it. I won't use the silly Hitler example either.

Why you people have this bizarre need to protect Oswald's name while accusing others of worst crimes is one of the mysteries surrounding this event.

[Gerry Down]

As if this "Officer Tatum" idiot represents most black people.

Do I hear another "you ain't black" line coming on?

[Gerry Down]

As if this "Officer Tatum" idiot represents most black people.

[Jerry Freeman]

Dallas has a Martyrs Park (dedicated to an 1860 triple lynching that occurred there) on park land directly west of the Grassy Knoll, beginning on the west side of the Underpass bridge.

I learned about this on this otherwise silly thread
 I've lived in Dallas all my life and yet had never heard of this. That area though is accessible [AFAIK] only by walking through the underpass. I believe homeless people are camping on it...............

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7784539,-96.8103669,3a,60y,339.4h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8nUXBtiVLxRVdK5T9NqG9g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en

The key word here is "proposed" which means JFK actually got nothing done. 

Well Richard...I wonder if that is because he wound up getting snuffed before he could 

[Richard Smith]

You gave a lukewarm response about LBJ.

Where am I defending Oswald?

Giving LBJ credit for Civil Rights advancement is a "lukewarm" response?  That seems pretty important to me.  And that is really your defense for suggesting that I viciously attacked "every Democratic President"?  And this from the same person who has cut and pasted thousands of outlandish, hate filled and often false anti-Trump posts.

[Richard Smith]

Where did I say Trudeau didn't use blackface? You focused on the incident when he was 29. I gave it context. The earlier episodes are what might be "youthful antics". He sang "Day-O" in the drama club in high school and the video was from the 90s when he was doing a summer job river-rafting. I wonder why the clip is so short; the photographers and others in blackface?

The images came out a month before the election. Trudeau lost the popular vote and his party held onto power with less than a full majority. Trudeau might have fared worst but his Conservative rival was caught on an alt-right website that sought to justifiy (a la Trump) the Charlottesville white-nationalists.

So now you're for cancel-culture. If Trudeau was not apologetic and did not made amends, and had ongoing indiscretions and insensitive remarks, you might have a point. Contrast the "bus tape" of a 59-year-old man still being a pig.

Take it up with the person who posted this:  "Trudeau (who's half-Scottish, half-French-Canadian) was 29 when he dressed as "Aladdin" (ie: not African-American) at an "Arabian Nights" dinner at the college where he taught. Pretty far from "Amos 'n' Andy".  This clearly suggests that Trudeau did not dress in blackface.  A falsehood.  Why you choose to focus just on this other incident is your own business but it implies a falsehood by ignoring the clear evidence that Trudeau did go "Amon 'n' Andy.'  It is a very dishonest respond.  Something more akin to a Rick Plant post. 

[Richard Smith]

Well Richard...I wonder if that is because he wound up getting snuffed before he could 

If you believe this, then that take it up with Oswald.