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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes 7 May 2017

    To remove Confederate statues, New Orleans needs a heavy crane. Every crane company in the area has received threatshttp://nyti.ms/2pjCn6i 

    9:13 AM - 7 May 2017
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    253 replies 1,505 retweets 1,155 likes
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      2. Closet Conservatives‏ @RealConsNews 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        Removing the statues will not rewrite history no matter how bad you want to. Slavery was awful; let's learn what lessons we can from sins

        25 replies 3 retweets 27 likes
      3. Marie Ramsey‏ @Scairp114 7 May 2017
        Replying to @RealConsNews @nytimes

        Southern whites haven't learned lesson, they're deeply entrenched in their racism & descendants of slaves shouldn't have to look @ that shit

        14 replies 18 retweets 219 likes
      4. Closet Conservatives‏ @RealConsNews 7 May 2017
        Replying to @Scairp114 @nytimes

        Manhattan is more segregated today than Jackson, MS

        12 replies 2 retweets 8 likes
      5.  👩🏻‍🔬 🆑‏ @clfunez 7 May 2017
        Replying to @RealConsNews @Scairp114 @nytimes

        I understand your point but I dont want our AA com that suffered slavery in ancestry to see a symbol of it

        1 reply 1 retweet 38 likes
      6. Closet Conservatives‏ @RealConsNews 7 May 2017
        Replying to @clfunez @Scairp114 @nytimes

        Ok. But what about the slavery exhibit at the AA musuem in Wash. DC? Should we remove that bc it reminds us of an awful historical fact?

        7 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      7.  👩🏻‍🔬 🆑‏ @clfunez 7 May 2017
        Replying to @RealConsNews @Scairp114 @nytimes

        actually this is great, a statue in public venue glorifies, a museum is a great place for context & conve

        1 reply 6 retweets 122 likes
      8. Sulloween‏ @MichaelSulwin 7 May 2017
        Replying to @clfunez @RealConsNews and

        This in a museum? Fine. On a public monument? Not so much.pic.twitter.com/8erf8zrKN9

        8 replies 17 retweets 108 likes
      9.  👩🏻‍🔬 🆑‏ @clfunez 7 May 2017
        Replying to @MichaelSulwin @RealConsNews and

        I believe museums can provide context and conversation. We can't do it in the public sphere

        3 replies 6 retweets 64 likes
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      2. Eichenwald's binder‏ @jamesbrownwig 7 May 2017
        Replying to @nytimes

        at its peak, 1.6% of Americans owned slaves these monuments have nothing to do with slavery

        8 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      3. NOT Daniel  🦇‏ @dcfoster_ 7 May 2017
        Replying to @jamesbrownwig @nytimes

        Alexander Stephens, the VP of the Confederate States, said their entire movement was based around keeping blacks as second class citizens.

        2 replies 2 retweets 24 likes
      4. Eichenwald's binder‏ @jamesbrownwig 7 May 2017
        Replying to @dcfoster_ @nytimes

        Lincoln didn't really give a sh!t about slaves, he wanted to ship the freed ones back to Africa

        2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      5. NOT Daniel  🦇‏ @dcfoster_ 7 May 2017
        Replying to @jamesbrownwig @nytimes

        It's nice to see that you have completely moved the goalposts instead of defending your comment.

        1 reply 2 retweets 21 likes
      6. Eichenwald's binder‏ @jamesbrownwig 7 May 2017
        Replying to @dcfoster_ @nytimes

        General Lee freed his slaves 20 years before he surrendered the monuments have nothing to do with slavery

        3 replies 1 retweet 1 like
      7. NOT Daniel  🦇‏ @dcfoster_ 7 May 2017
        Replying to @jamesbrownwig @nytimes

        This is one of the statues in New Orleans that has already been taken down last month. Not slavery, just white supremacy.pic.twitter.com/vLW5cfe4fr

        0 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      8. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Marie Ramsey‏ @Scairp114 7 May 2017
        Replying to @BillFaria001 @nytimes

        A most teachable moment is about to happen-by removal of such obscenities&monuments to losers. If some Germans put up swastikas u ok w/that?

        6 replies 6 retweets 37 likes
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      4. mr_ceebs‏ @mr_ceebs 7 May 2017
        Replying to @BillFaria001 @Scairp114 @nytimes

        I have a feeling these people threatening crane companies aren't doing it for the educational opportunities,

        1 reply 2 retweets 28 likes
      5. End of conversation

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