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No, they shouldn't

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Yes, they should

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I have mixed feelings

@Feb '13 c 287 comments V 385 votes

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FreelancerFl

v No, they shouldn't

It's history people, learn from it so we don't repeat it.

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RadAuthNat voted

v No, they shouldn't
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rojopa voted

v No, they shouldn't
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Rpete endorsed fancy1

v No, they shouldn't
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DesignerLM voted

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oldsolder voted

v No, they shouldn't
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Mallard endorsed Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't
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Just_Lisa

v No, they shouldn't

Change to what!?! Obamaville?!? Eff no!

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Raisinbran96 voted

v No, they shouldn't
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PWM endorsed commonsense51

v No, they shouldn't
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May 19
aledar voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 18
doggie_luv voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 18
sillybilly1b voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 18
Mournwolf voted

v No, they shouldn't
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RobG endorsed Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't
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DrSilicon voted

v No, they shouldn't
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May 16
Gatnos voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 16
littlewolf8469 voted

v No, they shouldn't
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May 15
Thunderchicken endorsed fancy1

v No, they shouldn't
May 14

O_S_Thomas

v I have mixed feelings

i dont care. i hate the confederate concept and all it stands for but i really couldnt care less what they name the things.

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May 14
jen-worth voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 13
PaulUK2901 endorsed Speedieg

v No, they shouldn't
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May 13

HMB1114

v No, they shouldn't

It's history...get over it.

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May 12
rangerjeff voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 12
warwil630 voted

v I have mixed feelings
May 12

JesusLivesInMe

v No, they shouldn't

How sad that this is even a question. Why should something from history be changed just because a person(s) doesn't like it or agree with it? What's next, atheists wanting every "Church street" in America changed simply because of it's name?? LOL

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May 12
Fyi1957 endorsed Speedieg

v No, they shouldn't
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May 12
Eady endorsed fancy1

v No, they shouldn't
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looncraz endorsed fancy1

v No, they shouldn't
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May 10
Luckyone806 voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 9
TerryConklin endorsed Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't
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May 9
LilliB voted

v No, they shouldn't
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May 9
Bill voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 9

Glich

v No, they shouldn't

Who comes up with these BS distractions ? America has 11 Million unemployed legal citizens. President Obama wants to use $6 Trillion tax dollars to help guide illegals into the voting booth.

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May 8
Reidabsher voted

v No, they shouldn't
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anc713 endorsed fancy1

v No, they shouldn't
May 8

Bob72370

v No, they shouldn't

Why try to rewrite history? The parks were named for historical events or persons. Good or bad these people or events were and are a part of our history. Revisionist history is not history at all but propaganda...

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May 8

NoAmnestyEVER

v No, they shouldn't

Just because "DEMOCRATS" owned slaves in the south, opposed abolition and founded the KKK doesn't mean we should censor history by renaming it.

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tomincali voted

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Jal187 voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 7
oldtimer2 endorsed Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't
May 6

InjusticeSucks

v No, they shouldn't

Boy Oh Boy thats going to make the Souther and them who Think Southern Voters Mad as Termites in a Rain Storm.

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May 6
RepomanGP endorsed Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't
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gitrdone8383 voted

v No, they shouldn't
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MarkJM voted

v No, they shouldn't
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DanielZ voted

v No, they shouldn't
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oldnavyguy88 voted

v No, they shouldn't
May 4
jeffreyknee voted

v No, they shouldn't
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pizza voted

v Yes, they should

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FreelancerFl

v No, they shouldn't

It's history people, learn from it so we don't repeat it.

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Just_Lisa

v No, they shouldn't

Change to what!?! Obamaville?!? Eff no!

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May 14

O_S_Thomas

v I have mixed feelings

i dont care. i hate the confederate concept and all it stands for but i really couldnt care less what they name the things.

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May 17

Nautilus

Which confederate concept do you hate: Iroquois Confederacy, Western Confederacy, Powhatan Confederacy, Seven Nations of Canada, Pontiac's Confederacy, Illinois Confederation, Tecumseh's Confederacy, Great Sioux Nation, Blackfoot Confederacy, Iron Confederacy, and Council of Three Fires.

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O_S_Thomas

@Nautilus which confederacy do u think numbnuts

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May 13

HMB1114

v No, they shouldn't

It's history...get over it.

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May 12

JesusLivesInMe

v No, they shouldn't

How sad that this is even a question. Why should something from history be changed just because a person(s) doesn't like it or agree with it? What's next, atheists wanting every "Church street" in America changed simply because of it's name?? LOL

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May 9

Glich

v No, they shouldn't

Who comes up with these BS distractions ? America has 11 Million unemployed legal citizens. President Obama wants to use $6 Trillion tax dollars to help guide illegals into the voting booth.

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May 8

Bob72370

v No, they shouldn't

Why try to rewrite history? The parks were named for historical events or persons. Good or bad these people or events were and are a part of our history. Revisionist history is not history at all but propaganda...

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May 8

NoAmnestyEVER

v No, they shouldn't

Just because "DEMOCRATS" owned slaves in the south, opposed abolition and founded the KKK doesn't mean we should censor history by renaming it.

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May 12

JesusLivesInMe

Exactly, that's just like the libs trying to remove the evidence that this Nation was indeed a Christian Nation. Sad indeed!

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May 12

NoAmnestyEVER

@JesusLivesInMe - LIke when they say that the founding fathers were deists. Only two out of over 100 actually were. And 24 of them were ordained ministers.

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InjusticeSucks

v No, they shouldn't

Boy Oh Boy thats going to make the Souther and them who Think Southern Voters Mad as Termites in a Rain Storm.

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BossTweed

v Yes, they should

YES.......we need to rewrite EVERY part of American History that the radical Progressives don't like.

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May 1

LEC

v I have mixed feelings

I don't know... The south keeps reliving its lost past though these symbols but it can't be a good thing as decedents of the former slaves to be constantly reminded of that time. So they should voluntarily rename and/or take down monuments and statutes that are frankly, meant to remind blacks they were once slaves.

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May 2

ACTSmom

Baloney....we don't relive the past, but quit trying to change history. Too much has already been changed via text books so that our younger generations don't even know the real history of the US.

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May 2

LEC

@ACTSmom Then why all the reminders of a civil war you lost?

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May 8

Bob72370

@LEC Because it is history?

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May 8

LEC

@Bob72370 You only glorify the wins.. has the south rewritten history? Or is the civil war still not settled?

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May 8

Bob72370

@LEC Wins for who? Every American lost in the Civil War. Shiloh, Antietam, Bull Run and all the rest saw brothers against brothers, neighbors against neighbors. Every American lost in each and every battle. I do not glorify the wins, the cost to our country was horrific, and we should all learn from our battles. Revising history by striking the names of parks is wrong no matter which side "won".

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Apr 30

Concerned_Cit

v No, they shouldn't

History should not be rewritten to please the PC revisionists. History is not always pretty, and should be preserved, so that future generations can learn from it. There is a reason parks were named after certain people, even if they were named 100 years after the fact, and that is part of history as well. A flipside question, should parks named after Yankee's be renamed? There are a bunch of them all over the country as well, yet Yankee generals and officers murdered men, women, and children on purpose in their campaigns during and after the Civil War. Grant, one of the main generals of the northern army declared total war on southerners, whether they supported the Co...

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Apr 30

GuyFawkes

Here here.

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Apr 29

treedcat25

v No, they shouldn't

Within reason, I don't think it's a big deal what you name it.

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Apr 27

sallydillard

v No, they shouldn't

Of course not. Its history whether you like it r not.

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Mar '13

GeorgiaSean7

v No, they shouldn't

No, and as a Georgian and a Southerner, I don't feel that a piece of history needs to be removed at an exorbitant cost to the tax payers. If it offends people, we have names parks, train stations, and roads after people such as Martin Luther King Jr. Our mayor here in Atlanta is Kasim Reed, an African American gentleman from New Jersey. There has to be a compromise but everyone needs to focus on important issues, and stop thinking that if a park is named "Robert E. Lee Hill," that we are being racist. Well we are not I assure you. If that is what is causing anxiety in many people's lives, then they need to find a hobby or something.

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Feb '13

iamdem

v Yes, they should

Yes, call them all STUPID!!!!

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Feb '13

tvg138

v No, they shouldn't

If we did this we'd be like the Germans covering up what the nazi's did to the Jews. It's ok to fail and be ashamed of the wrongs we do. That's how we learn and prevent the mistakes that were made, don't happen again. Keep history alive.

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Feb '13

ZombieMedic

v No, they shouldn't

History should never be re-written, especially for political correctness!

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Feb '13

maddogusn

v No, they shouldn't

Are we now in the business of erasing our own history? If your willing start down that road why not dig up all the confederate war dead and dump them at sea, don't forget to demolish the plantations and cemeteries in the south and parts of Arlington. Then while your at it erase the civil war from the history books, then you can start working on that pesky holocaust thing. Hey it's all for the good of political correctness....right?

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Feb '13

fancy1

v No, they shouldn't

Why should history be changed because it offends blacks? I get tired of seeing Martin Luther king streets in every town and city.

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Feb '13

Woody20164

v No, they shouldn't

First, the question is loaded. These parks don't necessarily "honor" the Confederacy, rather, they commemorate it. It is important that we remember. It is sad but true that most often, history is written by the winners. Despite being on the losing end of the war (and regardless of the particular issue), the confederacy fought for what they considered important principles of the constitution, States' rights without oppressive Federal involvement. Too bad more states don't feel that way now.

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Feb '13

Speedieg

v No, they shouldn't

âThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana). It's as simple as that.

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Feb '13

commonsense51

v No, they shouldn't

Do Liberal Democrats have a clue? Their Obama is trying to stir up enough hate between Americans to start another Civil war. He is the antithesis of what America is all about. Freedom, the freedom to disagree, the intelligence to come to the middle to run a nation when our nation is populated by immigrants from around the world and a nation where over 80% call themselves Christian(our heritage). He is an ideolog with one goal. Socialism one step at a time, growing Government, controlling our very minds with the arrogance of political correctness. He took the biggest power grab in our nation's history with Obamacare. He lied constantly that his bill would reduce healthc...

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Feb '13

alisha4san

v No, they shouldn't

No its part of history. All of history is not pretty but it happened. Im black but I dont believe in covering up or rewriting what already is.

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Feb '13

Hotsummer

v Yes, they should

The Confedracy stood for bondage and unbelievable cruelty! Hearing the very word " confederate " puts a disgusting metal-like taste in my mouth! I wouldn't even stop at one with that disgusting name.

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Feb '13

Hillbillyhunny

What about racisim against whites? Thats all you see and hear these days!! If we all spoke up as OTHERS i.e BLACKS when offened by being constanly reminded of the stuff our ancestors did or what we had no control of, it may change. Furthermore we (whites) were slaves first read your history books and get back with me beter yet read your Bible and get back with me. Im sick of hearing poor poor black man. Moreover, where is our WHITE history month?

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Feb '13

PNWest

v Yes, they should

The Confederacy was responsible for the deaths of at least 620,000 Americans. Their main issue was supporting slavery. To quote Confederate States Vice President Alexander Stephens, "the cornerstone of the new government rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slaveryâsubordination to the superior raceâis his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth". To name public parks after confederate heroes is wrong.

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Feb '13

fancy1

@Hillbillyhunny I agree with you 100%! I don't own slaves, my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents did not own slaves. But we are having it thrown up in our face constantly. Blacks can say and get away with anything against whites but you let a white person stand up for themselves and you get stupid remarks like the ones above. If you live in the south, the blacks act totally different than the ones up north.

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Apr 30

Concerned_Cit

v No, they shouldn't

History should not be rewritten to please the PC revisionists. History is not always pretty, and should be preserved, so that future generations can learn from it. There is a reason parks were named after certain people, even if they were named 100 years after the fact, and that is part of history as well. A flipside question, should parks named after Yankee's be renamed? There are a bunch of them all over the country as well, yet Yankee generals and officers murdered men, women, and children on purpose in their campaigns during and after the Civil War. Grant, one of the main generals of the northern army declared total war on southerners, whether they supported the Co...

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GuyFawkes

Here here.
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