A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone

[horselightning]

A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone

A monument of a Confederate soldier sits at the entrance of a North Carolina county courthouse. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment, a group says.

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here we go with statues again . it there all this time. now they all the sudden have a fit. thy may have to move it inside. if anything its reminder of what should not have been we are supposed to remember so it does not happen again.

 

[TheParser]

A Confederate statue in North Carolina praises 'faithful slaves.' Some citizens want it gone

A monument of a Confederate soldier sits at the entrance of a North Carolina county courthouse. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment, a group says.

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here we go with statues again . it there all this time. now they all the sudden have a fit. thy may have to move it inside. if anything its reminder of what should not have been we are supposed to remember so it does not happen again.

1. No matter what one may feel about a certain race, there is simply no excuse for that statue and especially for those patronizing words about "faithful slaves."

2. This is 2024, but apparently some authorities in the South have not yet gotten the word.

 

[Curried Goats]

1. No matter what one may feel about a certain race, there is simply no excuse for that statue and especially for those words about "faithful slaves."

2. This is 2024, but apparently some authorities in the South have not yet gotten the word.

News travels slow when you're a backwards people. Like Horse's kin.

 

[Meathead]

News travels slow when you're a backwards people. Like Horse's kin.

Except if it's "hands up, don't shoot".

 

[Curried Goats]

Except if it's "hands up, don't shoot".

In your backwards view the police should shoot people with their hands up? How about dumb bitches climbing through barricades for Trump?

 

[horselightning]

1. No matter what one may feel about a certain race, there is simply no excuse for that statue and especially for those words about "faithful slaves."

2. This is 2024, but apparently some authorities in the South have not yet gotten the word.

you just dont get it

 

[Lord-Humungus]

1. No matter what one may feel about a certain race, there is simply no excuse for that statue and especially for those patronizing words about "faithful slaves."

2. This is 2024, but apparently some authorities in the South have not yet gotten the word.

The racists will be upset by this

 

[lennypartiv]

Being faithful is a bad thing now?

 

[DGS49]

For one thing, the word, "slave" has become verboten in modern American idiom. People who were "slaves" are to be referred to as "enslaved persons," and don't you forget it.

But it's an interesting question. What if a novel were produced in which a character was portrayed as a good and faithful, say, house servant who was an enslaved person. It is conceivable that such a person could have existed, and even that such a person was satisfied with his/her lot in life, all things considered.

While the character might be offensive to someone alive today, there are many analogous characters in fictional (and real) history. What about wives who were happy in what other people considered an abusive relationship? What about a child who was raised by a strict martinet, but was fine with it, even after reaching adulthood? Just because WE think that a person should have been miserable, we don't have the right to eradicate any mention of the person or his condition.

I personally don't understand much of the South's exaltation of their Confederate history. I couldn't believe it when I was assigned to Fort Lee, Virginia, named after a famous Confederate General. Not to get technical, but wasn't he a traitor?

 

[Curried Goats]

Being faithful is a bad thing now?

It's more like pretending they were faithful rather than compelled by force and law is a sign of how emotionally fragile you and your people are.

 

[Mrkelly]

Being faithful is a bad thing now?

It is if they were “faithful” because if they weren’t

The would be beaten for it

SMFH

 

[lennypartiv]

It is if they were “faithful” because if they weren’t
The would be beaten for it

So none of them were voluntarily faithful?

 

[Mrkelly]

So none of them were voluntarily faithful?

How could you tell ?

Do you really think that they were grateful for their “owners”

Unreal

 

[Curried Goats]

So none of them were voluntarily faithful?

We know you soft frail whites love that fantasy.

 

[horselightning]

How could you tell ?

Do you really think that they were grateful for their “owners”

Unreal

some of their owners were black.

 

[Mrkelly]

some of their owners were black.

And that made it better

Because ?

 

[lennypartiv]

We know you soft frail whites love that fantasy.

You weren't there, you don't know.

 

[horselightning]

And that made it better

Because ?

i dont know ask africa they were inslaved there first and sold out to other countries. along with the in slaving caucasion christians.

 

[horselightning]

We know you soft frail whites love that fantasy.

frail black love there fantasy . all with victim mentality.

 

[initforme]

Slave owners were lazy. They were wealthy and too cheap to pay people to pick their crops.