Confederate statue in Kentucky vandalized for 3rd time

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:02 pm, Thursday, April 12, 2018

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The statue of a Confederate soldier in a major Kentucky city has been vandalized for the third time in less than a year.

The Courier Journal reports that the words "racist" and "traitor" were emblazoned on the base of Louisville's John B. Castleman statue. Crews have placed signs informing residents of the previous vandalism.

The statue was first vandalized with orange paint in the wake of August's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was cleaned for $8,200.

Another can of orange paint was thrown at it in February.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Confederate-statue-in-Kentucky-vandalized-for-3rd-12829746.php

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[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Good!!

[Sneederbunk]

2. For whom?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Good for people who don't celebrate slavery. n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Yes... thought that was obvious, but guess not for some.

[Judi Lynn]

6. No kidding! I wish they'd aimed for just the hate-driven racist, and not his horse! n/t

[melm00se]

10. An interesting quote from

Castleman:

"I unhesitatingly say that I will at any time salute an officer, superior or inferior, who salutes me, without regard to the color of his skin. The regulations and laws, and the fundamentals of courtesy and discipline, upon which these regulations and laws are based, prescribe this. It is no time to stand against them. I want to urge every soldier to be a soldier in the full sense of the term. We are at war, and soldiers are under the rules of the American army. We are all one under the flag. We salute the rank, not the individual."

[demigoddess]

5. fine by me. I would say that I will condemn such acts when

nazis/white supremacists are not part of our population.

[dalton99a]

7. Melt it down for sewer covers

[christx30]

8. I think itd be best to melt down this statue

and turn it into a statue of Robert Smalls.
Slave that escaped, and stole a Confederate ship. Ended up serving in the Union army. In my opinion, one of the best figures in the Civil War.

[Your Waiter Tonight]

9. The Confederates WERE Traitors

Traitors for the worst possible cause!

[BlueDestiny]

11. I had never heard of him so I Googled

Quite the history with John Breckinridge Castleman, including a stay of execution from Lincoln & a pardon from Johnson. Wow.

"Castleman was promoted to major in 1864. He led guerrillas in the attempted burning of supply boats in St. Louis, Missouri and was arrested in October 1864 at Sullivan, Indiana. He was convicted of spying and sentenced to death, but his execution was stayed by Abraham Lincoln. Following the war, Castleman was exiled from the United States, and studied medicine in France. He was pardoned by Andrew Johnson and returned to Kentucky in 1866.

He revived the Louisville Legion, a militia unit, in 1878 and became adjutant general of Kentucky in 1883. The unit became the 1st Kentucky Volunteers in the Spanish–American War, and Castleman was commissioned a colonel in the U.S. Army. His unit participated in the invasion of Puerto Rico, and after the war he was promoted to brigadier general and served as military governor of the island.

When a dispute over whether African American soldiers serving in the US Army became a disputed issue among some Southerners, General Castleman said, "I unhesitatingly say that I will at any time salute an officer, superior or inferior, who salutes me, without regard to the color of his skin. The regulations and laws, and the fundamentals of courtesy and discipline, upon which these regulations and laws are based, prescribe this. It is no time to stand against them. I want to urge every soldier to be a soldier in the full sense of the term. We are at war, and soldiers are under the rules of the American army. We are all one under the flag. We salute the rank, not the individual."

From Wikipedia.

History is fascinating.

[workinclasszero]

12. We must be the only country in the world

that erects statues and memorials to fu**ing traitors.

Gee I guess statues of Trump and Bannon will be popular in red states in the coming years huh?