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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes 7 May 2017

    Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleanshttp://nyti.ms/2qOMF00 

    5:16 AM - 7 May 2017
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      1. Gene Johnson‏ @gene423 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        You don't see Nazi monuments in Germany, and there should be no monuments to traitors, treason, and institutionalized racism in the US.

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      2. Nathaniel Grills‏ @NathGrills 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Welcome to the South, where we just can't get rid of our racist participation trophies

        2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
      3. Susan davis‏ @Susanda25911174 7 May 2017
        Replying to @NathGrills @nytimes

        face it the Civil Ear is part or history.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Susan davis‏ @Susanda25911174 7 May 2017
        Replying to @Susanda25911174 @NathGrills @nytimes

        thats Civil War.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. David Ashlin‏ @SciCommic 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Born in,and lived near,Richmond for 35yrs.I was steeped in Confederate lore. Then I grew up and began to understand it's hate,not heritage.

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      1. NeverthelessLass‏ @BlockDTrump 7 May 2017
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        Shame the warm weather in the south hasn't melted all the racist snowflakes by now.

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      2. BlackFilmsonNetflix‏ @blknetflix 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Traitors do not deserve monuments.

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      2. Bek Hobbes, eaten by owls‏ @Greebobek 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Look, they have had over a century to deal with losing, you would have thought it wouldn't be an issue.

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Kim‏ @KimNmarquand 7 May 2017
        Replying to @Greebobek @nytimes

        Lol they do not realize that they did lose!!

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Careful w/the dismantling of statues. It may result in the dismantling of the true history of slavery in 🇺🇸. Both are intertwined 😑

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        If 🇺🇸 is not vigilant...in the haste of trying to correct a wrong, 🇺🇸 will erase the very history that makes it what it is. Because if ...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        ...if truly this idea of taking down monuments is guided by correcting the civil Rights violations & horrors of slavery in 🇺🇸 Should...

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        we also demand every 🇺🇸 President pic/monument who owned slaves or oppressed civil liberties be taken down? Should we dismantle the WH &...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        ...every institution of higher learning? Shall we destroy the plantations, dismantle the fortunes of families who to this day benefit from..

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        slavery? Let's be careful that in the haste of righting a wrong that we do not dismantle 🇺🇸. These roots may be ugly but they run deep...

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        You cannot have one w/o the other. Destroy one you destroy the other. We 🇺🇸 must never forget not allow anyone ( regardless)of good intent..

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Bree50‏ @bre_50 7 May 2017
        Replying to @bre_50 @nytimes

        ..erase the FACTS of the terror those enslaved, and their generations til this day suffer at the hand of people this monument represents...pic.twitter.com/OH8A2zyjtr

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. CandyCornAndBlackLicorice‏ @msnlwebber 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Hypocrisy that removal of these statues is "erasing history"when US History classes & books have been erasing non-White actors since forever

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
      3. CandyCornAndBlackLicorice‏ @msnlwebber 7 May 2017
        Replying to @msnlwebber @nytimes

        This isn't erasing history. It's setting the record straight.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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