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That tears it! I'm getting a replica of the RE Lee statue for my front yard. Hell, I'm not even from the South!
You should fly Confederate flags and burn crosses too, maybe get some black mannequins and hang them from ropes in your trees. Right wing free-speech, they call it.
You should fly Confederate flags and burn crosses too, maybe get some black mannequins and hang them from ropes in your trees. Right wing free-speech, they call it.
Good one.
History clearly shows that the Confederate cause was about keeping slavery. A person has the right to fly a Confederate flag. A person has the Constitutional right to have laws jockies. The question is this: Given what we know about the Confederate cause and what the Confederate flag represents, is it morally sound to fly a Confederate flag?
According to the SPLC, 776 Confederate monuments exist across the country, and only 61 have been removed. Plans underway for Robert E. Lee to come down in Richmond is indeed a watershed moment towards ending the glorification of the Confederacy.
A Confederate statue being taken down in a former Confederate capital is indeed a watershed moment. Being taken down there says alot. The so-called mighty falling.
It's stirring up alot of anger for the pro-Confederate crowd. Richmond and its Confederate accolades represent something of a bygone era. A time in the South where Blacks living in a sleepy little confederate(with a lower case c) town know their place. A time where Jim Crow was the law of the land. A time when one could unabashedly pay homage to an explicitly white supremacist cause without backlash, because Black people wouldn't dare speak out.
Today, Richmond has a Black mayor, it is 50% Black, and people from other places are moving to the Richmond area. It is chipping away at a culture that lionized Confederates.
"No longer satisfied with erecting statues, the right-wingers went on to construct impressive strawmen."
And it leads to this. Said individuals cannot refute any arguments you've made. All one can do is make a straw man argument. No one said tearing down Confederate statues would get rid of racism. No one here has proposed such an idea.
Leftists have figured it all out, the key to solving racism was to just remove all the statues.
Well done.
Honestly, it's the right thing to do. I am not a leftist. I was born in Mississippi but grew up in DC because my dad was military. My whole family is still in the south though. They of course don't speak for everyone but they want these statues removed because they feel it's a stain on their states.
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