• BET founder Robert Johnson slams protesters for toppling Confederate statues

    BET founder Robert Johnson slams protesters for toppling Confederate statues

    BET founder Robert Johnson slammed those who topple Confederate and other statues across the US as “borderline anarchists” — and argued the act means “absolutely means nothing” to black Americans. Johnson, who recently called for the government to provide $14 trillion in reparations to the descendants of slavery, told FOX News Wednesday that the movement …
  • Trump to sign executive order protecting federal statues, monuments

    Trump to sign executive order protecting federal statues, monuments

    President Trump is expected to sign an executive order by the end of the week that would protect public statues and federal monuments and make vandalizing or any destruction to them punishable by jail time, Fox News has learned. Sources told Fox News Wednesday that the text of the executive order is still being finalized. …
  • Conservative who compromised on tearing down confederate statues is complicit in the destruction of art across the country

    Conservative who compromised on tearing down confederate statues is complicit in the destruction of art across the country

    There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are. So do the rest of us. These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful not to be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always …
  • Thousands sign petition to replace Confederate statues in Tennessee with Dolly Parton

    Thousands sign petition to replace Confederate statues in Tennessee with Dolly Parton

    They’re begging her to please to take their men. A petition to replace every Confederate statue in Tennessee with sculptures of Dolly Parton has racked up over 14,000 signatures on Change.org. “Tennessee is littered with statues memorializing Confederate officers. History should not be forgotten, but we need not glamorize those who do not deserve our …
  • Petitioners want Louisiana’s Confederate statues replaced with Britney Spears monument

    Petitioners want Louisiana’s Confederate statues replaced with Britney Spears monument

    A new movement for a Britney Spears monument has turned Louisiana’s statue debate into a real “Circus.” A snarky Southerner started a petition seeking to replace the state’s Confederate statues with one honoring “an actual Louisiana hero and influencial[sic] human being, Britney Spears” — and the response has been crazy. “Before becoming one of the …
  • Taylor Swift calls for removal of ‘white supremacist’ statues in Tennessee

    Taylor Swift calls for removal of ‘white supremacist’ statues in Tennessee

    Taylor Swift is challenging her home state of Tennessee to remove all public statues of “racist historical figures” and “white supremacists.” Swift, 30, addressed the Capital Commission and the Tennessee Historical Commission in a lengthy Instagram post Friday, asking that the organizations “consider the implications of how hurtful it would be to continue fighting for …