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This is what a hero looks like (Original Post) Botany Aug 2017 OP
I know what to replace a Confederate Statue with... irisblue Aug 2017 #1
OMG such a great idea!!! flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #2
I've also mentioned that I want a statue of Heather Heyer holding a protest sign and Nay Aug 2017 #4
+1000 demigoddess Aug 2017 #5
Truly. First responder statues everywhere. ancianita Aug 2017 #7
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2017 #8
I ran with your idea SHRED Aug 2017 #3
Yes! Statues for REAL HEROS! burrowowl Aug 2017 #10
Sheesh - just heard a Dallas doctor on MSNBC, who is helping with the rescue/relief efforts calimary Aug 2017 #6
A picture is worth a thousand words! The children seem happy and safe wrapped in his arms... RestoreAmerica2020 Aug 2017 #9
The little boy looks like he's enjoying it. N/t TexasBushwhacker Aug 2017 #11

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
2. OMG such a great idea!!!
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:07 PM
Aug 2017

Can we also get a statue of the black man who rescued the white Texas man with the confederate flag?

Nay

(12,051 posts)
4. I've also mentioned that I want a statue of Heather Heyer holding a protest sign and
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:27 PM
Aug 2017

trampling Nazi flags and Confederate flags under her feet.

calimary

(80,699 posts)
6. Sheesh - just heard a Dallas doctor on MSNBC, who is helping with the rescue/relief efforts
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 12:49 PM
Aug 2017

say he worked the Hurricane Katrina disaster, and "this is going to be twice the size."

Oh, but, as my poor addled and thoroughly misguided and misinformed republi-CON friend told me - "this has NOTHING TO DO with global warming!!!"

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,433 posts)
9. A picture is worth a thousand words! The children seem happy and safe wrapped in his arms...
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 02:34 PM
Aug 2017

Last edited Wed Aug 30, 2017, 02:55 AM - Edit history (4)

... However, this heart warming image is antithetical to the current political climate, more specifically the last few weeks, where hate and fear of the other has been forced on all Americans by a *mal source.

What is particularly interesting is that while the mal source strives desperately to control the message, narrative of what it thinks America stands for--should be...ironically, to its dismay can't control the uncontrollable power of Nature even though it attempted to increase its ratings as it flippantly stated while millions of Texans braced for the hurricane of the century.

This past weekend it attempted to inject more hate and fear, more chaos but was usurped by a bigger source ...Nature. The photo depicts la verdad, yet the truth is not displayed only in this photo, many other images, videos, testaments showing fellow humans helping one another have surfaced --all relaying in concert ...that even in our darkest moment humanity, America is inherently good.

*mal: bad:evil:vile:sinister.

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