(August 18, 2017 at 3:37 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 3:32 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Apologies, CL. I misread your post. I thought it said, "were protesting with those guys."
Oh. No, no one I know was protesting.
I have some friends who have voiced that they think it's stupid to take down those statues because they see it as part of history and they don't believe the civil war was motivated by slavery. I'm just saying, I don't think having that opinion necessarily makes these people racist.
HOLY FUCK AND WHO CARES....... One side was trying to end slavery and the other was trying to keep slavery, regardless of personal opinion.
I am seriously having a hard time understanding why it is so hard to simply admit, "SLAVERY WAS BAD"
If it is, then the monuments to those who fought to kept it need to be taken out of the context of being glorified as heros. And relegated to museums and history books without the context of glorifying them as heros.
WHY is that so hard to understand. It should be a no brainer.