The vets that defeated the Confederacy disagreed. After the war we kissed and made up and lived happily ever after.TraitorsWhat else do you call those who take up arms against their country?why isnt the left demanding FDR statues be removed
Maybe because FDR never took up arms against our country
Look at you still trying to push the narrative the statue nuttery is about traitors.
Our fellow Americans. That is sort of the point, isn't it?
Well, until you modern lefties ran out of other wacism and had to invent some more.
I have asked you many times, what moral authority do you have that trumps those of those vets.
you have never answered.
I guess because you know that you are a pathetic, tiny man, pissing on the legacy of men that fought and bled for an idea(s) bigger than them and then forgave their enemies afterwards.
It is wrong of you, as a group, to renege on their acceptance of their former enemies.
Morally wrong.
The descendants of those Confederate vets erected statues without concern for the opinions of those who descended from the slaves of that Confederacy
Now, descendants are saying they don’t want those statues
That is a rejection of the promises made by THEIR forefathers who advocated and bled so that they could join and be accepted into the wider American Society.
The idea, the goal they, (and we) were always working towards was never unending confrontation, but integration and then living together in harmony and freedom.
Who are these children that want to piss on the dreams and aspirations of their ancestors?
They do not have the moral authority to do this either.
You are spoiled children tearing down the work of your fathers, not realizing that it is your inheritance that you are destroying.
You're a lying piece of shit, trying to rewrite the history of Jim Crow.
The statues weren't built to show that Southerners were interest in "integration" or "living together in harmony and freedom". Quite the contrary. By raising up statues of slave owners and oppressors, and leaders of the Confederate South, the statues were raised up during the Jim Crow era to remind black Southerners that although slavery was gone, they were not equal.
The raising of the statues coincided with laws limiting black voting, black ownership of property, and the re-emergence of the KKK. The statues were a daily reminder to black people of the oppression they lived under, and if they dared to get to "uppity", there would be consequences.
The "children" of the formers slaves are damn Skippy about taking down the statues of the rapists who are their grandparents, and great grandparents. Try reading this Daughter of the South's reasons for wanting the statues gone:
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