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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just learned something today from my trumper neighbor
I just got told by my Trumper neighbor that lived in Austin "Robert E Lee Drive" and and "Jeff Davis Way" were named after "not the general" and the "former Gov. of Arkansas." It isn't "Davis' fault that his parents gave him that name.
After picking up my jaw, I told him that Jeff Davis was the president of the confederacy, something every 5th grade social studies student knows, and if it weren't named after the general, I asked if it was named after one of the writers of the plays "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" and "Inherit the Wind." I then said I didn't know Texas appreciated theatre that much."
I learned that Texas really loves the acting and writing arts.
BTW, this all started when I smiled and said hello picking up a package on my front porch and he started yelling about my trying to change names of things here in Arizona that honest murderers of native Americans, like Wasson Peak, Oury Rec Center, anything Samuel Hughes, and Safford, AZ, the city.
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)Although his record is also marred (during Sherman's March to the sea, there were a large number of former slaves following the Union army, and, to avoid having to feed the freed persons (Sherman was foraging for supplies just to feed his own army) I believe it was Sherman that ordered Davis to disassemble a pontoon bridge after the army had crossed one of the rivers in GA to dissuade the freed slaves from following. However, the Confederate cavalry was shadowing the Union army and in order to prevent recapture or death at the hands of the Confederate cavalry many of the freed persons tried to swim across the river, leading to many droawning.
MLAA
(17,288 posts)I cant believe it, but it sure is progress.
AZLD4Candidate
(5,688 posts)If you live in my LD, please sign my petition.
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