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I will repeat -- how do we erect monuments to people who wanted the United States not to be united.
You don't. And it is a check mark in the win column for the government for there not to be reminders to the people that things in this country could be different. That is why there is no push back with the legal system in these matters.
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I'm ok with confederate monuments being relocated to museums or auctioned off to the highest bidder. Bringing african slaves to America was probably the worst thing to ever happen to this country. We'd be far better off today if slaves had not been brought here. Taking down Lincoln, Washington, and Roosevelt statues is ridiculous, and should be a felony.
Basically he says the statues have no historical value, Robert E Lee himself said to not erect any Confederate monuments, and racial injustice is still a big problem in the United States.
Thanks. Pretty much what I surmised. Burns is just another Leftist with an anti American agenda.
Basically he says the statues have no historical value, Robert E Lee himself said to not erect any Confederate monuments, and racial injustice is still a big problem in the United States.
Then you add to that the majority(not all) of Confederate statues were erected in the '20s or '50s and the motivation seems pretty clear.
Brilliant filmmaker who does justice to all sides in his films, but Ken Burns is a political leftist so his position here isn't shocking. And then there's the fact that I'd hardly expect anybody still in the industry who wants work in the future to speak out for keeping the statues.
Slavery, not State Rights --- not heritage and that's when I stopped listening to it.
States Rights to what? Heritage about what? Be specific.
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