there are all kinds of monuments, some are really disgusting.
I think it was Tenn that had a monument to a slave auction building! they finally took it down.
But they are other markers like the generic one in Virginia with simply a Rebel soldier.
Back in Baltimore where I come from I recall a statue of Christopher Columbus that was in a park near
where I grew up.
It was recently vandalized and removed...damn shame
WTF is "racist" about the Age of Exploration? it's how this continent became populated by Europeans.
Point being "it was what it was" and historical revisionism by it's very definition is not historical accuracy.
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battles had combatants -it takes 2 sides to war - you can't teach history by removing Confederate monuments
[quoteIf the Confederate Flag was banned, Dukkha will not be able to remember who lost the Civil War.[/QUOTE]
if the flag was banned there would be all these soldier fighting for what? It's a ridiculous construct
Whatabouting is pointless here. We are talking about monuments to traitors and losers.
And that shit should be torn down. The only thing anyone should feel for those traitors is shame and derision. Traitors don't deserve monuments, and those monuments were erected to intimidate the newly freed slaves and their descendants, and the people who built those monuments even said so.But they are other markers like the generic one in Virginia with simply a Rebel soldier.
If I had it my way, I'd dig up every single Confederate grave, and toss the remains into the ocean, like we did to bin Laden.
Columbus didn't populate shit, and he committed genocide.Back in Baltimore where I come from I recall a statue of Christopher Columbus that was in a park near
where I grew up.
It was recently vandalized and removed...damn shame
WTF is "racist" about the Age of Exploration? it's how this continent became populated by Europeans.
So you'll forget who lost the civil war if we tear down the monuments to the traitors, but keep the ones to the Union soldiers? OK. You probably have brain damage, then, if your memory is that poor.Point being "it was what it was" and historical revisionism by it's very definition is not historical accuracy.
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"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, …"
Several other states had similar language eg Mississippi/Texas/SC)
The root cause of the war and the meaning of their flag are not subject to serious or reasonable dispute. It doesn't mean there were not good people in the south then, and today.
But good people doesn't excuse using a racist flag now for any other reason than informing people of that evil cause to the end it is neither forgotten nor repeated.
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" and the Federal Government having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slaveholding States. "
Virginia Ordinance of Secession 1861
I'm not positive but I think the primary cause was the refusal of non-slave states to comply with the fugitive slave act which required remanding of southern property.
That law analogous to sanctuary cities in that way, sort of... So there was informal assistance from north transporting slaves and then refusal of the law to give them back.
It pitted puritanical Christians in New England who were activist against the slave interests in the south.
A good read is McPhearson Battlecry of Freedom
incorrect attribution. the thing/person being memorialized can have different characteristics.
I wouldn't expect a blind progressive to anything other then that to understand nuance -but there it is
hopefully your insanity doesn't prevail, although young progs are exceedingly unable to do details.And that shit should be torn down. The only thing anyone should feel for those traitors is shame and derision. Traitors don't deserve monuments, and those monuments were erected to intimidate the newly freed slaves and their descendants, and the people who built those monuments even said so.
If I had it my way, I'd dig up every single Confederate grave, and toss the remains into the ocean, like we did to bin Laden.
Congress gave Confederates amnisty, and recognition after the war. I'll go wit the contemporaries who lived through it instead of Cultural Revolution types like you why deny history
I said "Age of Exploration" and he was a leading figure of that periodColumbus didn't populate shit, and he committed genocide.
studying the Civil war is much more then about who lostSo you'll forget who lost the civil war if we tear down the monuments to the traitors, but keep the ones to the Union soldiers? OK. You probably have brain damage, then, if your memory is that poor.
It's about who we were, how we ended the original sin of slavery, and then became a modern nation-
all part of a continuuim
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