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Old 08-16-2017, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by tybrad View Post
So perhaps the question about the statues ought to be about their original intent...

Was it to honor individuals?

Was it to provide concrete memories to/of white supremacy?


If the former, let them be.
If the latter, then they must go.
The issue is far more complicated than that, but for the most part they are memorials to the heroes of the Lost Cause and thus a celebration of white supremacy. At the end of Burns' The Civil War, an attractive historian pointed out the the nation was reunited after the war in the knowledge that whites were superior to the freedmen.
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