[Peace-discuss] FW: NYT: Confederate/Nazi "Rights" at Duke

[Carl G. Estabrook]

The best account I’ve seen of the matter:

<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/25/monumental-rubbish-statues-torn-down-what-next-new-orleans>.

—CGE

[PS - I’ve always thought of myself as a Southerner: reared in Virginia (my father would say, “…crops are raised, children are reared…”), fond of New Orleans (a western end of the Venetian cultural diaspora), composed a college application essay on Pickett’s Charge (ordered by R. E. Lee), studied briefly at Duke (favorite college of my classmates at Washington-Lee [sic] High School), I was Quentin Compson (from Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury) when I moved to Boston - but, like l'abbé Sieyès, "J'ai vécu”…] 


> On Aug 19, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:49 AM
> To: sectns.aals at lists.aals.org
> Subject: NYT: Confederate/Nazi "Rights" at Duke
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> For Robin Kirk, a co-director of Duke University’s Human Rights Center {sic!}, the rapid expunging  of the {Confederate} statues currently underway needs to be “slower and more deliberative.”
> Oh sure, the Confederate  War of Rebellion against the United States of America in order   to  preserve slavery only ended in 1865. We need to deliberate about these matters for another 152 years or so. What’s the difference between the Confederate Flag and the Nazi Swastika? About six decades. But what  else do you expect from a “university” founded upon tobacco  that pollutes, poisons and murders our Children in the Confederate State of North Carolina where the Slaves were forced to harvest   the tobacco.
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