Confederate monuments collapse: Statues in Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee are torn down and vandalized with graffiti amid George Floyd protests

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 3, 2020 | Marlene Lethang

[C19fan]

Confederate monuments have been toppled in Southern states including Alabama, South Carolina, and Virginia during the historic George Floyd protests sweeping the country. On Tuesday morning the bronze statue of Confederate soldier 'Appomattox' was taken down in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia by its owners who feared it would be vandalized in demonstrations. The statue, erected in 1889 to honor Confederate soldiers, has been a point of controversy for years but remained standing despite repeated demands for removal, until this week. Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson tweeted photos of the statue removal saying: 'Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving.'

[The_Media_never_lie]

American Taliban.

[central_va]

Jefferson and Washington next.

[piasa]

They already vandalized Casimir Pulaski’s statue and he was a Revolutionary War figure that had nothing to do with slavery.

[ClearCase_guy]

Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson tweeted photos of the statue removal saying: 'Alexandria, like all great cities, is constantly changing and evolving.'

Rioters burning cities. It's just evolution. It's all good, man.

[central_va]

If there was no Civil War and no CSA then slavery didn’t happen. It is made up propaganda. I do not think there ever was slavery in the USA. Slavery is a made up fairy tale used for political proposes

[redshawk]

Let the blacks rot.

[montanajoe]

If the folks in the South would have picked their own damn cotton we would be far better off today...

[livius]

They’re so ignorant they probably didn’t know who he was. Just some dead white guy.

This is really like the French Revolution translated into English...illiterate mobs, egged on and coordinated by radical leftists, whose only mission is to destroy any trace of civilization and law.

[central_va]

I am starting to have some profound understanding of why segregation was ever so popular.....

[sphinx]

The left has given up on teaching poor black kids to read, so it’s shifted the target to something it can do: destruction.

[foreverfree]

What city did the Pulaski trashing happen in?

[PIF]

Next up, the paving over of all remaining Civil War battlefields - think of all the tax money lost by these areas not being put to highest and best use. Tourists be damned - they are just white racists anyway.

The socialists are writing history before they win, but later they will - no consolation to us - enjoy the nice red blotched brick wall on their personal trip to nirvana

[moovova]

“Let the blacks rot.”

I can’t agree with that. While you’ll never know where they stand until their actions or words reveal how they feel, there are a lot of black people that don’t support what’s going on. They know black people are being used.

[golux]

If the folks in the South would have picked their own damn cotton we would be far better off today...

The last slaves were freed in the North. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed Southern slaves, and that was after the South had already left congress. But yes, importing blacks was the worst decision ever made.

[Bull Snipe]

“The last slaves were freed in the North.’

Partially true. When the XIII Amendment was ratified it freed the slaves in Kentucky and Delaware. It also freed the slaves in Tidewater Virginia, coastal North & South Carolina and 13 Parishes in Louisiana. These areas were under Union occupation on January 1 1963 and were exempted in the Emancipation Proclamation.

[Bull Snipe]

Should have read January 1 1863

[SisterK]

its not blacks
look at photos of the rioters
mixed races
this is demonicrat

Isis is here

[GailA]

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[BroJoeK]

montanajoe: "If the folks in the South would have picked their own damn cotton we would be far better off today..."

golux: "The last slaves were freed in the North."

By the time the 13th Amendment was ratified, in December 1865, all but a relative handful of slaves in Kentucky, Delaware & New Jersey had already been freed -- either by their own states, by the Emancipation Proclamation or by just walking away.

Of New Jersey's 1860 18 remaining old "grandfathered" slaves, 16 are said to have still been alive to be freed by the 13th Amendment.
We are not told who those 16 were, but personal body-servants seems likely, meaning their de-facto status would not change much until either they or their now "employers" died.

Leaving the question regarding Delaware (~1,800 slaves) & Kentucky (maybe 50,000 remaining slaves): were they "North" or "South"?
Well, before the Civil War, as slave-states they were considered "South".
During the war they remained in the Union, but provided large numbers of troops to the Confederacy -- they were Southern Union states.
After the Civil War Kentucky & Delaware nearly always voted solidly with Democrats of the Solid South.

Today, are Kentucky & Delaware more "North" or "South"?
Well, when a Delaware Democrat politician like Joe Bye-Done says, "they're going to put y'all back in chains", he sounds pretty Southern to me.
Kentucky seems pretty much of mixed minds -- Northern style Democrats can still win statewide elections there, though not always.

On the question of who, actually, did clear & plow the land, then plant & pick cotton -- my guess is a large percentage of that work was done by yeomen farmer families of modest means.
But the lure of profitable plantation life was so great that as soon as a white family got good at farming, dad would visit the local bank to borrow enough money to set them up as "planters", and so let others do the hardest work for them.