Sen. Glazer’s Senate Joint Resolution 15 (2016) (29-3-8 in the Senate on June 30, 2016; 59-7-14 in the Assembly on June 26, 2016) called on the U.S. Congress and the President of the United States to remove the names of Confederate political and military leaders from federal public buildings, parks, and other public places. He is renewing his call in the wake of the white supremacist protest that resulted in the death of three people.
SACRAMENTO – “I join in the outrage over the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia. The sight of people carrying torches, swastika banners and Confederate flags – rallying against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee – was a reminder that we have so much more to do to bring Americans together. Any movement that includes Nazis, the KKK and white supremacists needs to be treated as a threat to our long-held principles of diversity, equality and opportunity for all. Today’s white supremacists are no less a threat to our nation’s ideals than the Confederate generals and leaders who waged war on our country in defense of slavery. We must condemn them today and remove symbols honoring the Confederacy from our public places.
“Members of both parties have criticized the President’s tepid reaction to the events in Charlottesville. They should back that up by voting to remove the names of Confederate leaders from federal places. Ten U.S. military bases are named after Confederate leaders; numerous statues of Confederate leaders stand in the U.S. Capitol.
“A full discussion of the Civil War and Confederate military and political leaders should be included in our history books. Our public buildings, squares and other community centers, including our streets, roads and highways, should be named for people and events that honor our country and our democracy. Defenders of slavery should not be given an inch of attention in these places of honor.”
In addition to authoring SJR 15, Sen. Glazer in 2015 proposed banning the naming of state public buildings, parks, schools, highways or roads after political and military leaders of the Confederacy, and requiring their removal from any existing public places. His SB 539 was approved by both Legislative houses and vetoed by the governor, who cited local control concerns. Under pressure from Sen. Glazer, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, and others, school districts in San Diego and Long Beach stripped Robert E. Lee’s name from two elementary schools
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This is stupid and just grandstanding off of a tragedy. Trying to erase history is wrong and will create new confrontational issues. Many of the souths military leaders were against cessation. Glazier needs to learn history before he throws off the cuff resolutions for his political grandstanding.What next, statues of Jefferson and Washington as they were slave owners. The point is not giving radicals fuel for the next demand or violent act. History is to be learned from so we can improve our society. It should never be forgotten because of that.
The history that make people like you proud came from the destruction of the history and oppression of the indigenous people that were already here for millennia. Tearing down their statues will not erase their impact or history. You’re no doubt a blue collar fella, yet you worship the ones who created this unlevel playing field for the rest of us. It’s celebrity culture at best but instead of the Kardashians, it’s some evil racist hick who inherited wealth. Get over it bud, the status quo is dying.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson helped create this country, and although they had their flaws (as slave owners) their good points vastly outweighed their bad points as humans. To be fair, I speak as a patriot of the United States of America. You may have differing views, which I might respect.
I can’t imagine that any traitor of the Confederate States had many good points at all. (Again, I am a patriot of the United States of America, which you may not be.) The public ‘memorials’ to Confederate State traitors serve no decent purpose in the United States (as Robert Lee – a horrific slave owner himself – stated before his death).
Removing such travesties from United States public property would have a wonderful & cathartic benefit to regular United States citizens. After all, most such abominations were erected during Reconstruction and the early Jim Crow era as affronts to the families of recently freed slaves. These ‘memorials’ weren’t placed in any effort to ‘respect’ those traitors… they were placed as reminders that white supremacist groups such as the KKK (which you may have heard of) held sway and power in such locales.
If you’ve studied history, you should easily know that the Confederate States were a group of LOSERS, just like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Here’s a fun fact – all such LOSERS were defeated by the efforts of progressive United States governments (led by Presidents Lincoln and FDR and Truman… bipartisan leaders!).
Even the most recent enemy of the United States (OBL) was eliminated due to the effects of a progressive United States government, led by President Barack Hussein Obama. (Which makes me very proud.)
Of course if anyone wants to submit that the United States erect public statues and monuments to other vanquished foes such as Hitler or Tojo or OBL – all to join with the statues and monuments to the defeated Confederate States, please proceed. I would be astonished at the rhetoric needed to make such a case, although I would be heavily predisposed to oppose such a venture.
Otherwise all of these affronts to the decency of the United States should be removed from public display. I shouldn’t be asked to pay taxes to promote a traitor and LOSER.
To those who would object, I would ask that you please make room in your private property to host whichever bit of detritus you see fit to adore. If you want to admire a statue of KKK founder Stonewall Jackson that’s taking up public land – make room on your front lawn.
Call me, I might be willing to help move it for you.
You can not give a pass to a slave owner just because he did some great deed. Who are we to judge what a great deed is when there are those who suffered a slave?
I respect that opinion. I cannot in any way say that you are wrong.
My country was founded on ideas which were good, as well as ideas which were evil. At that time of its forging, only white male landowners of a certain age were given political power. That’s slowly changed over the years, but it needs to continue.
My country has committed genocide, has allowed enslavement, and has unjustly punished refugees and citizens alike. It has oppressed entire swaths of peoples.
Yet it has also been the engine of scientific advancement, the harbinger of medical breakthroughs and self-enlightenment. It has been bad and it has been good. Overall I feel it has bent the moral arc of the universe towards justice.
Still, statues of losers really doesn’t seem to be a thing. What next, statues of the Minnesota Vikings? (0-for-4 in Super Bowls, yet they get to host one next year??)
Just get over it already. It’s 2017 and I’m sure you have better things to do Senator
“Get over it” is always the proper programmed response from the replicants to any type of historical racial atrocity. Historical time + over-rationalization are all that’s needed to program this type of atrophied thinking. What you should really be getting over is the fact that all of our traditional institutions are crumbling, including the constipated house of reason that is white power.
It’s simply history champ
You are absolutely correct, “champ.” It’s simply history!
Returning to the original topic, the Confederate States were on the LOSING side of history. So that makes me wonder, who (other than LOSERS) would want “monuments” erected to LOSERS?
“Only other losers,” I would guess. Who else would care??
For example, just today I wanted to contact everyone in the 1934-1945 German government’s closest circle to get their input on erecting “monuments” to DEFEATED GOVERNMENTS. I felt this suspect collection of ‘humans’ would have an unsurpassed vision on such a topic. (Since they were unsurpassed-ly defeated by an alliance of free countries.)
But I failed in my attempt to contact, because those bozos had been either hanged by judgment of the Nuremberg Courts, or beforehand they had looked into their own personal mirrors and committed suicide.
For instance, Mr. Hitler – of his time, the world’s greatest coward who ended up killing himself in absolute shame.
As you say… “simply history”.
You are absolutely correct, “champ.” It’s simply history!
Returning to the original topic, the Confederate States were on the LOSING side of history. So that makes me wonder, who (other than LOSERS) would want “monuments” erected to LOSERS?
“Only other losers,” I would guess. Who else would care??
For example, just today I wanted to contact everyone in the 1934-1945 German government’s closest circle to get their input on erecting “monuments” to DEFEATED GOVERNMENTS. I felt this suspect collection of ‘humans’ would have an unsurpassed vision on such a topic. (Since they were unsurpassed-ly defeated by an alliance of free countries.)
But I failed in my attempt to contact, because those bozos had been either hanged by judgment of the Nuremberg Courts, or beforehand they had looked into their own personal mirrors and committed suicide.
For instance, Mr. Hitler – of his time, the world’s greatest coward who ended up killing himself in absolute shame.
As you say… “simply history”.
There is no evidence that Hitler killed himself. The remains found by the Soviets have proven to be of someone else after being tested for DNA. The probability that Hitler escaped to one of the South American countries is very likely. His youngest bodyguard testified that Hitler had escape plans in place for quite some time in case he was cornered.
Get over it – I totally agree. Giving it too much attention just makes it worse.
Exactly!
It’s like cancer – give it too much attention and it will spread.
Hide it or ignore it is the only reasonable response.
/loads-of-snark
Get a life. Some of us have more important things to worry about.
Such as posting on a message board? Touchè! You win the Internet!!
Steve, I voted for you and will do so again but this is crap and polical correctness run amok. This country has history… good, bad and ugly. What’s next, burn the history books? You have bigger fish to fry in Sacccramenno. Stop the tunnels, build a dam or two and kill the bullet train to nowhere.
What’s with all this “burn the books” nonsense I’m reading recently? That’s what Nazi Germany tried to do, and it didn’t work out well for them. I know – I visited the ruins. And I can’t imagine with all of this Internet stuff around (which Al Gore invented, so I’ve been told) that “book burning” would work well these days. You can’t burn electrons to much extent….
My father and all of my uncles killed Nazis back during World War 2. Ever since I was a child, I’ve been so very proud of them for that simple fact. I’d be humbled to imagine that I might have the same Nazi-killing impetus in me as my veteran forebearers did. I would furiously like to make their souls ever so proud of me.
But thankfully there aren’t any real Nazis around any more. They were all killed and/or died out of old age.
Granted, there are cosplayers who like to imagine marching under tiki torches makes them significant. But I expect there may be mutant cockroaches which have the same delusions of grandeur. Pity. I’d simply wipe my boots of such.
What a psycho.
I know! And yet he’s President!!
It’s a strange world….
Ramses struck the name of Moses from Egyptian history but by doing so, the name of Moses lasted more in people’s hearts and in every media conceivable while the Dynasties faded away. History is rapidly removing men of lesser greatness but you can be sure that some will outlast the Ramses of the modern world.
So if your erasing history and statues of history then what becomes of you life when your on to friendlier places or not? These statues are history. What’s next remove any Rosa Parks statues and Martin Luther King statues, and close national monuments because they represent something you don’t agree with! This all needs to stop, the government is out of control and we’ve lost all respect for each others beliefs and feel the need to push your beliefs on everyone else when did we become a society of dictators and not realizing the freedoms that as Americans we’ve been given by those who serve and fight for us. We have come a long way in making up for past history but that’s what it is is history let’s stop tearing down history and make America a place you would like to continue to live. We are so lucky to live in this country you could be somewhere else where entittlement is not tolerated and if you didn’t work or farm for yourself you would die. Just give a thought to what we have as Americans and forget the B.S. that our government is trying to pull us into. I love America(the old one where the news media and government didn’t dictate what happens here) Please let’s all return to families resist prejudice and respect each other as human beings.
Most of those statues were cheaply made and mass produced during the Jim Crow era and Civil Rights movement. They’re used as beacons of racism to intimidate minorities into being subordinate to white people. The others you mentioned did not stand for this; quite the opposite. And you must be a time traveler from the Wild West because the media and government have always been in control. Stop trying to play the victim dude. You can be proud to be white or black or brown whatever, but the statues and “alt-right” terrorists take it a step further and want to destroy anyone who isn’t white– this is what this is about. Unless you’re unevolved too and think diversity means white genocide then keep with that tin foil hat mentality.
When it comes at any discrimination, you have to rise above it. Race, class, religion, gender, sexual orientation, height, weight, mental or physical disabilities, etc. Rising above it is easier said than done – and not everyone has the mental wherewith to do it.
People only do to you what you let them do to you. Rising above it is a learned behavior, and anyone who doesn’t try to rise above it has an oppressive mindset.
At least Moonbeam vetoed it. For a minute I thought we might have to remove or rename all southern states. Idiots, there was enough bloodshed and broken families, why try to pour salt in a wound after over a hundred years. Like Hilary said ” get over it” .
Dimitri if you don’t see the fact that reverse racism is going on your blind. Yes I’m white but I have plenty of black friends, Asian friends, and friends of many a races. This is absolutely not about anything other than media trying to make more news, you tell me if there was not television most of this crap would not be going on. And if you believe that has happened since the wild west your high. I’ve been on this earth long enough to witness what media was and has become and has caused with their reports. History is history I’m tired of the poor me B’S go to work quit living off the few people that pay taxes. And allow the handicapped and elderly to use what was meant for them not the people that don’t want to work because everything is free! Put a limit on it.
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