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Home Front: Culture Wars
Lefties now demanding statue of Sam Houston be removed from Houston Park
2017-06-01
[AMERICANTHINKER] The Sam Houston statue has been at Hermann Park since 1925, but a group that calls itself Texas Antifa has started a campaign to take down this and any other landmark that bears the name Sam Houston.
Sam goes, I go. I'll go live in Liberia until they decide to change the name of the city named after James Monroe. I'll probably be dead by then, luckily.
The statue has been a site to see for nearly a century and for some people, it's a site they want to see for years to come.
Others would rather pet the camel's nose.
"Honestly, I think they should keep it up. Yeah," Nicole Nelson said.
Duh.
But Texas Antifa group members want the Sam Houston statue gone.
"Yes! It must go in the name of racial ideological purity."
On Thursday, the group posted on its Facebook page saying, "Texans agree the disgusting idols of America's dark days of slavery must be removed to bring internal peace to our country."
How many Texans did they ask in Del Rio and El Paso and Uvalde and Lubbock and Amarillo? How about Mineral Wells, Waco, Bangs, Commanche, and Blanket?
The group also suggested Mayor Sylvester Turner should back the removal of the statue, because of his ethnicity and political affiliation.
He's expected to come around after a few Black Lives Matter riots.
Mayor Turner is black,
Do tell. Whites make up 51 percent of the population, though only 25 percent of them are non-Hispanic. Blacks have 25 percent, and "All others" have the rest.
and apparently that is supposed to dictate his every thought and action. Too bad that the antifa people deny him the moral right to reach his own decisions.

As the article points out, while Sam Houston did own 12 slaves, he was hardly an explicit supporter of slavery:
He was also the preeminent founding father of Texas.
When Sam Houston was a senator in the 1800s, he repeatedly voted against the spread of slavery to new territories of the United States. He was also ousted as governor of Texas for refusing to align himself with the Confederacy.
Houston was founded on August 28, 1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou (now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles east of where the city was established.
Of course, if the statue is removed, then the city itself must be renamed by the same logic. Marcuse, Texas? Obama, Texas? My gut instinct tells me that Texans will not put up with this nonsense.
My gut instinct tells me that the people now inhabiting Houston will go with Obama, TX.
Posted by:Fred

#13  If the Nazi wannabes Antifa want to come play in Texas, they will discover that this isn't the People's Republic of California and the natives are NOT friendly to them.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2017-06-01 19:43  

#12  Working their way up to the Founding Fathers.
Posted by: charger   2017-06-01 18:50  

#11  If Antifa tries, they will be very upset by the result.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-06-01 17:16  

#10  Next on their agenda, the Washington Mo unenthusiastic and the Jefferson Memorial. And then we'll have to rename Washington, DC answer Washington state. And all the cities named Washington. And Jefferson. And on and on.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-06-01 16:34  

#9  The soviet left culture erasers making room for culture enrichers.
Posted by: newc   2017-06-01 16:15  

#8  Surveying comments in both the Texas Antifa Facebook page, and in relevant articles, if Antifa does move forward with their attempts it will get ugly very fast. Austin mayor sez the subject is not even on his agenda, but again this is Austin
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-06-01 15:38  

#7  Antifa again. Texas Antifa openly admits to gunning for statue of Sam Houston - they will be rallying for such on June 10
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-06-01 15:33  

#6  Seems like anti-terror laws ought to apply to groups and individuals that are bent on tearing down the U.S. Many use violence as well as property destruction as a tactic. Here. One group identified as being behind the effort to remove the Sam Houston statue is Texas Antifa. It is linked to an organization named The Alliance for Global Justice Corp. Their 990 form filed with the IRS is Here.

One problem is that so many of these left-wing groups are interlocked and connected with many other left-wing groups, financially as well as ideologically.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-06-01 14:33  

#5  Yeah, but those are just facts, not feelings!
Posted by: Bobby   2017-06-01 13:36  

#4  And anyone who bothered to stay awake in Texas History classes would know that ole Sam was opposed to slavery and was impeached as governor because he was opposed to seceding from the union and joining the south in the Civil War.

Totally ignorant of the facts.

The FATHER of Texas, the hero of San Jacinto.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-06-01 11:28  

#3  The only surprise is that it's taken this long for the lunatic left to acquire other targets.
Posted by: Raj   2017-06-01 10:46  

#2  Remove the First President of the Republic of Texas?
Unlikely.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-06-01 09:16  

#1  Commenters on their facebook page are hammering them about their extreme ignorance regarding Houston. Others are warning them they have targets on their backs.

This is NOT California.
Posted by: Woozle Sponter9674   2017-06-01 04:39  

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