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Hamlette

(15,412 posts) Wed Aug 31, 2022, 12:24 AM Aug 2022

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Ku Klux Klan plaque at West Point.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/nyregion/west-point-confederate-symbols-kkk.html

Some committee is recommending it be taken down. Ya think?

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Ku Klux Klan plaque at West Point. (Original Post) Hamlette Aug 2022 OP

Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Four Squares.... czarjak Aug 2022 #1

OMFG. Who put that plaque there? SunSeeker Aug 2022 #2

I suspect the confederacy after the civil war Hamlette Aug 2022 #3

czarjak

(11,289 posts)

1. Evangelicals, Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Four Squares....

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Wed Aug 31, 2022, 12:37 AM

Aug 2022

SunSeeker

(51,684 posts)

2. OMFG. Who put that plaque there?

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Wed Aug 31, 2022, 12:50 AM

Aug 2022

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)

3. I suspect the confederacy after the civil war

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 31, 2022, 01:50 AM

Aug 2022

it is one of 3 plaques above the science building entrance. The other two are confederate leaders. Here is NYTimes link that works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/nyregion/west-point-confederate-symbols-kkk.html?unlocked_article_code=cHfM4lHw1OvireKDV-zF3yv3z1FaglJZQUgwC79l-Lv8NH47QJkD4LmvjZPZoKOu7teClH9rW4agdMlLiptsZ3PMz2UAyhGrB1jdo85UZ54qTXJ-JcV0b17hMUyroEv-mwe-w9_XRlSjp_XtIjbsL-G8Y0ZqlffUejBs5vFl7Mzw44i9zyAy8biYQPUSk6kIFgKeYMNT_ojw9DM6p6bqGhDJIv3snBN5kU__fOMNB2naMSncswSoT-4K7EFvVSXxtMraancAG4y2ORsDHFpXas2cZGz4QsGgoCQqTusar7WPaOB_tuwTKLxUFQpOTGUeQGaRrHcpOyJwa4WR_6iV8EvpEPL8j5-nNdenFQ&smid=share-url

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