Nobody is purging history by removing statues of Confederate Leaders. In fact, they're making history by doing it.
What those statues represent are the ideals of the Confederate States of America--which itself stood for the subjugation of human beings on the basis of the color of their skin. They were put up to honor the confederacy, not just the men that fought for it. To keep those statues up is to say that the ideals of the confederacy--of which slavery was a critical and key component--are ideals we still uphold today.
What those statues represent are the ideals of the Confederate States of America--which itself stood for the subjugation of human beings on the basis of the color of their skin. They were put up to honor the confederacy, not just the men that fought for it. To keep those statues up is to say that the ideals of the confederacy--of which slavery was a critical and key component--are ideals we still uphold today.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
