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These statues were erected as intimidation during Jim Crow and allowed which is a shame and national disgrace.
Funny but Jesus said love your neighbor...guess most would be really upset that Christ did not have blond hair and blue eyes. He was most likely a dark skinned middle eastern man who so called believers would not give the time day to...same is happening each day when we judge others that do not look like us or fall into the same norm.
If you have a monument in public space to someone long-decreased who became famous fighting a war against our present nation largely so that they could be allowed to continue doing things that are now universally recognized as morally repugnant,
Correction. The new world's form of slavery was ALWAYS universally recognized as morally repugnant. Way worse than indentured servitude, which some whites participated in where you worked for someone until your debt to them was paid. American slavery was far worse than that. Which include the morally horrid transatlantic shipment of slaves from the west coast of Africa.
A minority decides they weren't going to wait for the ballot box and decided to riot against public artifacts.
Extremely unpatriotic and folks applauding this should sober up
Hey, let’s not act like the ballot box has been fair the last 8 years. Good job of running the clock out with all the delays to the various legal challenges and whining about how hard it would be to re-draw those districts after wasting months though.
To anyone who thinks the disdain for these statues is new, you’re either not paying attention or just lying to yourself. People have wanted to take them down so long I was against it when they started because I believed all the lies denying what they really stood for and couldn’t see the difference between remembering history and putting it in a place of honor.
Wait....did someone say that the South never seceded and was always America? And the problem is transplants who bring bias? Ummmmmm what?
You want bias? Your ancestors lost. Take the L and move on. I'll continue to stand with Americans who the ruling elites among your ancestors did everything they could to keep in bondage, up to and including turning into traitors to protect it by creating a separate country. And then when you got smoked and lost that "right", spent the next 100 years denying them any chance to participate in this social and economic experiment equally, all the while had organizations go around and spread a false history to be taught which completely sugar coated the ugliness of it all.
When you attempt to seceed and immediately get invaded and have a few years of war and then lose you didn't actually secede
No, it did. The South most certainly “withdrew formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization”
They replaced the US Constitution with their own, which was very similar except for fact theirs was built upon key call outs about racial supremacy, slavery and it being a Confederation rather than a Federal Republic.
The fact they didn’t have the man power, economic clout or industrialization to keep it, in no way changes the fact that yes, they did secede.
Secede is the act of leaving, not the ability to maintain a country
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