RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 15, 2017 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2017 at 11:05 am by Autumnlicious.)
Many of the statues went up during Jim Crow.
Would anyone really argue that Jim Crow is part of the Southern identity? As opposed to a racist group hijacking it for their own nefarious ends?
Take those statues down, rename streets and buildings. Because the origins of those placements was pure and simple "Nyah nyah we can deny Blacks rights!"
Fact that escapes many of you is appalling - you act as if George Washington installed them, not a bunch of racist, angry Southern Democrats trying everything they could to suppress Blacks.
Not all monuments are created equal. If I recall, we demolished quite a few Nazi monuments. Shame we're better for the Germans than we are for ourselves.
Would anyone really argue that Jim Crow is part of the Southern identity? As opposed to a racist group hijacking it for their own nefarious ends?
Take those statues down, rename streets and buildings. Because the origins of those placements was pure and simple "Nyah nyah we can deny Blacks rights!"
Fact that escapes many of you is appalling - you act as if George Washington installed them, not a bunch of racist, angry Southern Democrats trying everything they could to suppress Blacks.
Not all monuments are created equal. If I recall, we demolished quite a few Nazi monuments. Shame we're better for the Germans than we are for ourselves.
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