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What are your thoughts on what lincoln said? That Whites are naturally the superior race? You seem to be turning a blind eye to things that almost everyone said at the time.
He was wrong in that respect. Does it outweigh his other achievements? No, it doesn't.
i think the only and simple resolution is to stop honoring men/women with statues. We are all flawed and eventually some do-gooder will find reason to NOT honor someone.. Tear them all down.. which they will eventually... People are stupid!
Lee could have had a heart of gold for all I care. This doesn’t change the fact that he fought for an undignified and traitorous cause (the Confederacy) and this and anything else related to the Confederacy is not something that deserves to be honored in our public spaces.
Once the above statement has been accepted we can proceed with removal of confederate monuments. For the nostalgic folks let’s put them into a nice curated museum for them to enjoy for many years into the future.
that is because for some folks if they are truly honest about slavery they will say they dont think it was that bad since it was protected by “laws” or they know its so cruel to admit it would make them feel guilty.
No one should feel guilty for slavery today.. but damn, is it really that hard to say it was an ugly stain our our history and we shouldn’t praise those who were willing to die to defend it.
But we still should honor those that partook in it but never had to fight for it.
it shows rank and file soldiers, with this inscription:
Front: TO OUR / CONFEDERATE / DEAD
Rear, on base: FIRST AT / BETHEL / LAST AT / APPOMATTOX / 1861. 1865.
maybe the second part "lionizes" them. The first is surely just a memorial to the dead.
This whole southern pride thing is just ignorance.
The southern states back then and even to this day are the centers of poverty and poor education in this country. What is there to be proud of?
The second link I’m less opinionated about the non-named statues representing the many dead average soldier. There’s a difference between a memorial and a monument. Like most wars; they were the peasants used as cannon fodder for the rich landowning slave masters. 400,000 of them were conscripted and essentially given little choice.
The generals however; don’t fit that category.
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Originally Posted by Cruz Azul Guy
Lee could have had a heart of gold for all I care. This doesn’t change the fact that he fought for an undignified and traitorous cause (the Confederacy) and this and anything else related to the Confederacy is not something that deserves to be honored in our public spaces.
Once the above statement has been accepted we can proceed with removal of confederate monuments. For the nostalgic folks let’s put them into a nice curated museum for them to enjoy for many years into the future.
Ironically Lee would totally agree with you. He was against any monuments for the confederacy to help with healing.
This was a letter George Washington wrote to his friend Robert Morris.
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"I hope it will not be conceived from these observations, that it is my wish to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting."
The Confederates, on the other hand, were not.
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