DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — With hundreds of people watching as midnight approached, a crane moved in and took down a Confederate monument that stood in the town square of an Atlanta suburb since 1908.
OT- While QAnon stirs up the fever dreams of Satanic pedos in the sub-90 IQ crowd, Repugnicants in Arizona get busy profiting off state-subsidized child trafficking…
“This feels great. This is a people’s victory. All of our young people from Decatur High School that made this happen. All of these organizers, everybody came together,” Davis told The Associated Press. “This is it. This is a victory for this country. This is an example of what can happen when people work together.”
I’m told that this sort of thing is suspect, and that support for it is mere “virtue signaling.”
I would make a deal with the south and neo-conferderaes. They can have all the confederate statutes they want, but every one of them needs to be of General James Longstreet. Not a single statue of him Exists in a prominent place, which says everything you need to know. And I would probably give an exception for gen, Joseph e, Johnston as well.
Both behaved honorably and had post civil war careers, and Longstreet actually fought racism.
That both were blamed in lost cause mythology - when in fact both had fought honorably and well (and in fact the south might not have lost the war if Jefferson Davis had not Overruled Johnston) - is the reason they lack statues, while confederate racists who never gave up the cause got them.