So..who is the sculptor? Laura Gardin Fraser--she died in 1966...months after completing this lil gem. It would appear that she had a soft spot for those traitors we call the Confederacy and apparently for those who fought Reconstruction reform..and basically won. How we can celebrate traitors at our military academy astounds me.
Damn....pretty stupid, I got ta say. I suppose that the hoods and all were Greek as well, right?
www.britannica.com
Nope...a chisel and hammer..a few hours later, problem is solved~
You are aware that West Point predates the Confederacy by a good many years, right? The northern generals and the southern generals were classmates at West Point.Damn....pretty stupid, I got ta say. I suppose that the hoods and all were Greek as well, right?
For your edification..God knows you could use some:
Ku Klux Klan | Definition & History | Britannica
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
The 19th-century Klan was originally organized as a social club by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866. They apparently derived the name from the Greek word kyklos, from which comes the English “circle”; “Klan” was added for the sake of alliteration and Ku Klux Klan emerged. The organization quickly became a vehicle for Southern white underground resistance to Radical Reconstruction. Klan members sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence aimed at the newly enfranchised Black freedmen. A similar organization, the Knights of the White Camelia, began in Louisiana in 1867.
In the summer of 1867, the Klan was structured into the “Invisible Empire of the South” at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee, attended by delegates from former Confederate states. The group was presided over by a grand wizard (Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest is believed to have been the first grand wizard) and a descending hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans, and grand cyclopses. Dressed in robes and sheets designed to frighten superstitious Blacks and to prevent identification by the occupying federal troops, Klansmen whipped and killed freedmen and their white supporters in nighttime raids.
Do provide a link for the bolded...bet ya can't...at least, not one that's not Stormfront approved. Best you could do is a college frat--Kuklos Adelphon--one that did not exist at West Point at any time.
No, it doesn't make sense. But I am sure you don't mind teaching CRT.
All references or symbols regarding the KKK need to go.
There is no explaining the KKK.
In 1965 the Ku Klux Klan had one meaning only. It just didn't start out that way.
More expected ignorance.
Yes it did. There is no justification for the KKK.
I don't twitch and the KKK is not respected. We are better off today because they are where they are now. I started this thread and you came in. So it appears I got you and it's funny to see how ignorant some people still are.
In a word...yes. We are influenced by our environment..unconscious cues and arch-typical images inform our sub-conscious. A hooded man carrying a rifle..dubbed KKK. Seen everyday, by every cadet who has taken classes at the Science hall..which is to say all of them. Is it any wonder the racism pervaded the office corps for decades after?
