In a side effect of the nationwide unrest over the killing of George Floyd, protesters have effectively forced the removal of multiple statues memorializing a racist past.
I’d donate to pay the fine.
The legacy of the lost cause refuses to recognize our country’s original sin.
ETA. I’m wondering who actually won the Civil War.
In Philadelphia, the city quietly removed a statue of Frank Rizzo, former police commissioner and mayor, from its perch across the street from City Hall in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Soldier’s monuments aren’t racist.
It’s somewhat astonishing that there still is a United Daughters of the Confederacy as if there are still decedents who take pride in the Lost cause. But it’s the south so a lot of this is ingrained. After all don’t see an Eva Braun appreciation society in Germany.
From Wikipedia.
According to lawyer Greg Huffman, writing in Facing South , “[p]erhaps nothing illuminates the UDC’s true nature more than its relationship with the Ku Klux Klan. Many commentators have said the UDC simply supported the Klan. That is not true. The UDC during Jim Crow venerated the Klan and elevated it to a nearly mythical status. It dealt in and preserved Klan artifacts and symbology. It even served as a sort of public relations agency for the terrorist group.”[52] At its 1913 annual national convention, the UDC unanimously endorsed The Ku Klux Klan, or The Invisible Empire, [53] a book written by UDC historian Laura Martin Rose,[54] then president of the UDC’s Mississippi Division. Published near the height of the UDC’s Confederate statue-installation and textbook-vetting efforts, the book was a supplementary reader for Southern school children.[55][56] A local chapter of the UDC funded a now-vanished[6] memorial to the Klan near Concord, North Carolina.[57] As late as 1936, the UDC’s official publication featured an article which lauded the role of the Ku Klux Klan.[58]
YES…symbols matter.
This is so excellent.
I think i need to donate to whoever is running against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.
UDC = the female KKK basically.
But he sure rocked a mean nightstick in his cummerbund.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.library.temple.edu%2Fdigital%2Fcollection%2Fp15037coll3%2Fid%2F51536%2F&psig=AOvVaw1RSF6SLrtJYJ5Vsy6SqZgk&ust=1591288421050000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJj207qJ5ukCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAIIf they were soldiers for the traitorous south fighting to maintain slavery…?
Uh…yeah!
Mein Kampf mit der Realität
They take pride in their family heritage and in the honorable military service of their ancestors. They were called and they went.
“Soldier’s monuments aren’t racist.”
It’s past time for Southerners to stop venerating their racist, treasonous past. I say this a lifelong resident of the state of Alabama. When our citizens remove their “proud confederate” blinders, perhaps we will move beyond our sad history.
They are white supremacist who hide being family heritage and history as a excuse.
I love Alabama. My maternal gg grandfather was in the 40th Alabama Infantry from April 1862 until the surrender in North Carolina in April 1865.
Starting to feel like most of the former Soviet States after the collapse of the USSR, when all the Lenin statues started being torn down and removed.
FunFact™: The last standing statue of Lenin in Ukraine is in Chernobyl. For rather obvious reasons, wasn’t exactly a target of protesters after the fall of the Soviet Union, and now it’s left there for the historical value of a place basically frozen in time.
I guess there is a silver lining to every cloud.
David Roberson, spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of General Services, told TPM that the department must “repair or restore the statue and then return it to its location on the Capitol grounds” under state law. He added that the statue is currently in storage until the department can obtain quotes for the repair work.
