Artillery practice for Donnie’s pending “Supreme Deflection” North Korea invasion?
Lower those Confederate flags, topple those Confederate general statues.
Treat them like the Nazi memorabilia that they are. Fine to collect as historical mementos, but no place whatsoever on statehouse flagpoles and public squares.
Simultaneously, we should be pushing for Trump’s impeachment!
Trump wants to turn our Democracy over to the alt right supremacy nazis and he MUST BE STOPPED!
In addition, the president of the Jacksonville, Florida, city council has called for the city to take an inventory of its confederate monuments, and said he would then propose legislation to relocate those monuments to museums.
My first impulse was to think “A museum? Just destroy them!” But then I remembered that Trumpskyites don’t go to museums.
Good. And renaming roads, highways, streets and buildings are apropos as well.
Be interesting to see what would happen if someone introduced a bill in the Virginia General Assembly to remove all existing statues, and preclude installation of future statues, of people who committed treason.
(Warning: There’s a trick in there.)
Just put the fucking things in a museum where they belong. I’m in 100% agreement with the “never forget” and “learn from history” arguments. What this dude does not abide is their location in places of public prominence that is meant to exalt them. Taney is a fucking STAIN on our history, not to be revered, but reviled.
I’m partial to driving them even crazier by renaming them ALL after famous minority people. Heck, if I was on City Council in Richard Spencer’s municipality, I’d have trouble not trying to deliberately rename the street he lives on to Antifa Tubman Boulevard or some shit…maybe even a new one every week.
Brilliant!
They’re not really memorabilia. They’re threats. Most of them were put up well after the war, and some honor confederate figures who just happened to spend their postwar careers organizing murders of former slaves and of white people who sympathized with them.
That’s right! Statues, like sprinkles on ice cream are for winners!
Exactly, most of these monuments were erected in the 60s in a direct attempt to intimidate black people during the civil rights movement. They were basically the same as hanging nooses around town. Prior to that, neither the Confederacy nor that atrocious flag were widely displayed or embraced, and yet we managed to still teach about the Civil War in schools across the country.
Also, the mayor of Lexington, KY should be included in this piece. Jim Davis immediately called for the removal of two monuments in the immediate wake of the Charlottesville protest, and he did so before the terrorist attack.
Whole counties, too. There is a Jeff Davis County in western Texas. Its County Seat is Fort Davis, TX. South of Jeff Davis County is Brewster County, named for Henry Percy Brewster. At the start of the Civil War, Brewster was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army who ultimately rose to the rank of colonel.
I wonder what the racists would say if the decision was to leave the statues up but replace the inscriptions with more accurate accounts of what each person did. Sort of like a historical version of the stocks.
Some memorabilia are threats by their very nature - they can be both. Arguably every Nazi-era product can still be viewed that way, I agree, even if it’s just in a movie. The point I’m trying to make is to get them away from state sanction, celebration, and whitewashing.