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Re: NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: Majority of Americans want Confederate statues to remain in place |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Aug 18 08:38:03 2017, in response to Re: NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll: Majority of Americans want Confederate statues to remain in place, posted by Fred G on Fri Aug 18 02:32:58 2017. Hmmm. Do you see statues of Benedict Arnold anywhere in the United States? He won many great battles early in the Revolution, before betraying his country.The entire Confederacy, was an act of treason against the United States, and all of its leaders, civilian and military, were traitors. The was was fought over whether the South, as a matter of life and law, would be able to continue owning human beings. That in itself is so horrifically evil, that there should never have been a single statue, not the smallest monument of any kind, erected in honor of these disgusting individuals who fought to defend the indefensible. The statues and monuments that do exist, erected long after the war was over, not to "honor Southern culture", but to remind Black people living under Jim Crow, who was in charge. Imagine being a Black defendant entering a Southern courthouse with a statue of Robert E. Lee on its front lawn...he or she would correctly feel their chances were not good. THIS is what you are supporting. |
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