(August 18, 2017 at 3:48 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 3:42 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
Who is not admitting slavery was bad? Besides those nazis, whom we can all agree are racist mofos, no one else here is saying slavery wasn't bad.
Glad you agree, then it should be a no brainer to relocate those monuments without the hero worship attached to them.
Otherwise you are giving those asshole bigots a voice.
Again, and you would rightfully agree that a German today could not get away with, "Why cant we keep this statue of Rommel with a hero motif in it's honor?" AGAIN, that is how blacks feel about monuments that glorify the men who fought to keep slavery. So if you value your black friends, dont shit on them by saying it is ok, when you just agreed with me that it is not ok.
Those monuments only belong in museums of what not to do to your fellow human beings. Just like the Ann Frank house and the DC Holocaust Museum are warnings of how not to treat your fellow human beings. Just like the African American Museum in DC has artifacts of slavery.
You "Nazis are bad."
Me, "I agree".
You, "Slavery was bad"
Me, "I agree"
You, "The KKK is bad."
Me, "I agree"
Now you already know right from wrong so do the right thing and stop justifying the hero context of which those monuments were intended when they were erected.
